Sorry Zuckerberg, Fortnite Is The Only Metaverse Worth Caring About
Facebook founder and extraterrestrial lizard man Mark Zuckerberg recently launched social media platform Horizon Worlds in Spain and France. To mark the occasion he shared an in-app screenshot that resembled some bargain bin DS game about dressing up babies or cleaning horse stables. It looks like total shit, and is a perfect distillation of how detached people like Zuckerberg are from the virtual worlds they are trying so hard to pioneer.
In the world of video games and the internet, metaverses have existed for decades. Habbo Hotel, Second Life, PlayStation Home, and VRChat are all examples of people existing in worlds that go far beyond our own. Entire economies, social politics, and customs can be found in places like this, and Meta is so obsessed with its singular, outdated vision that absolutely nobody cares about. It’s a joke, and its pristinely corporate appearance only drives home how out of touch Horizon Worlds really is. Zuckerberg looks like he’s about to walk me through the tutorial of a bootleg Wii Sports.
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Horizon Worlds is basically an extension of Facebook (or Meta, which I still feel dirty using) and is pitched as a place for friends, family, and colleagues to meet up in the medium of virtual reality to extend the idea of what a social media platform is capable of. Unfortunately it is a painfully dull interpretation of that idea. Avatars are bland, functionality is basic, and it fails to realise just how much broader the internet is when it moves beyond such a singular and corporate definition of how we express ourselves online. Zuckerberg was grown in a lab and has no concept of real human contact, so perhaps that’s a big reason behind
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