Mark Zuckerberg spent $10B on the metaverse and all he got was this stupid selfie

pcgamer.com:

I don't want to start this post by personally attacking Mark Zuckerberg's eyes, which have in years past been described as «two weird lil black marbles» and «vacant, black shark eyes.» Who wouldn't look utterly bereft of a soul after trying to explain the internet to the United States Senate? I also don't need to suggest Mark Zuckerberg may in fact be a robot, since there's an entire meme community devoted to that joke. I am avoiding these easy, obvious dunks on ol' Zuck because his latest «metaverse» selfie looks so bad, he's already owned himself harder than I possibly could.

Zuckerberg posted a screenshot from Meta's Horizon Worlds(opens in new tab) on Facebook earlier this week, saying that he's «looking forward to seeing people explore and build immersive worlds» in the VR «metaverse.» The screenshot is not just bad: it is exquisitely bad. It is ironic clipart bad. It is stock-cratering, anyone-other-than-a-billionaire-CEO-would-immediately-be-fired-for-this bad. Meta spent $10 billion on developing whatever the hell it's doing with the metaverse last year, and all it's got to show for it is a baby doll-faced Zuckerberg hovering in front of a miniature Eiffel Tower.

As writer technollama highlighted on Twitter, a side-by-side comparison of 2007's Second Life and 2022's Horizon Worlds does not do Zuck any favors.

Second Life 2007. Metaverse 2022. pic.twitter.com/2JByEzk5eLAugust 17, 2022

Nor does the unfavorable comparison to 1996 PlayStation vehicular combat game Twisted Metal:

This is the Eiffel Tower in Twisted Metal 2, which came out in 1996. pic.twitter.com/nkhG7d2ijMAugust 17, 2022

If I was the billionaire founder of one of the richest companies in the world, I would personally not advertise my revolutionary