It will not stop being funny that Zuck named the whole company after this failed shit. Hope “AI” will join it in the overhyped tech graveyard in a few years
this post was submitted on 28 Jun 2026
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He should be calling it "metAI" in anticipation of its upcoming "success"
Anybody who tried VR chat instantly saw what an absolute failure the "metaverse" was. Still my most played VR game by a lot. i will never forget playing beer pong with Link or having deep technical discussions with an Australian salamander chilling on a couch.
That's what got me about the metaverse too: an astonishing wealth of junk content. I got through all the games and videos and experiences I wanted in less than six months, and clearly I'm not the only one.
I do love VR documentaries though and hope those continue to thrive.
It might be as big of a banger as the fyre festival documentary
There’s a YouTuber called redlyne_ that has a video series where he goes through dead online games. It’s great content
Waydot also does this (as well as other, related content).
It seems the biggest hurdle for the tech czars who did one visionary thing is that once they get to that level they are so disconnected from people that their entire perspective shifts and therefore can no longer see something that would appeal to all of us, and only see something that they want. Because when they did make the visionary thing it was something they wanted.
When you read Stephenson and miss the point altogether.
It's weird that high tech CEOs didn't learn the most valuable lesson from the Metaverse: people are not stupid. If they don't like something, selling it to them harder is not going to make them like it more. It's simply not solving their life's problems.
AI behaves much the same way. It's not that it's useless, it's that faced with the actual cost, its usefulness shrinks to almost nothing. People dislike AI because they know better, not because they are too stupid to see.
people are not stupid
Uh. Looks around at the state of the world
I honestly think a lot of the people pushing this stuff know very well that they don't need it to succeed. They don't really care if the general public hates it, and it flops. As long as they can convince investors, they're pulling yearly paycheques and bonuses in the tens of millions of dollars. If it flops, some thousand employees (thralls) will be layed off. If it fails catastrophically, they might need to step down themselves, and move to a different company that "appreciates their ability to be a visionary".
These people are only capable of failing upwards, and they know it. The name of the game for them is waving their arms and blabbering about something to draw in investor money.
Nah. Meta needs something to grow.
Right now, they are sitting on social media platforms that can't see meaningful growth and a messaging platform near the same. Nothing that Meta has tried to create after either defends their existing revenue streams from dying or creates a new revenue stream.
Without significant change, Meta is a decade away from being another AOL.
Car park for a virtual store?
voices of American children [...] “Five thousand hamburgers please”
art, life, satire dead, blah blah
If they had been smart, they would have bought VRchat and Rec Room and left the teams alone to figure out how to merge those existing worlds and grow organically from there.
That couldn't possibly have become a trillion dollar business, though. That was the fantasy they were selling to investors, a future where people would be living their whole lives in Meta's virtual corporate dystopia.
I will repeat this over and over. AI is not for you or for me, we are users of the byproduct which is money exchange. Look at search engines, google is perfect example. AI just makes it so that we users can make simple queries and get answers, Google did that too and then became this monster which makes absolutely nothing, but searching the internet is easier and billions in ad revenue.
Some may argue there are some of us power users find beneficial use of AI, but we are small subset of users who in many cases were already smart enough to do the work. I love cowork for that reason, I share code I’ve written, projects with epics and work items and cowork makes the next project just like I did. What took a week, takes hours. Time which I now spend learning the next actual thing, quantum computing.
For those who are fed up by Google's shitty searches, try Qwant!
Kagi is also good, but it's paid.
I tried Kagi for a month. Several times I got "we couldn't find what you were looking for" and the limit of 300 searches a month, even if I'm not going to hit that I FELT limited. I wanted to like it but it's not for me.
That sucks. I feel like if it can't find what you're looking for it shouldn't count it. Have you tried Qwant?
Qwant is nice, but it keeps blocking my VPN and locks me out if I happen to use a non-European exit node ("We're not offering Qwant in your region"). And I'm not pulling down my mask for a fucking search engine.
If you're willing to put up with Duckduckgo but hate AI search, there's https://noai.duckduckgo.com/
Will Meta also rename themselves when the shutdown occurs?
Yes to AIslop
Meta IQ
Meta F(utures) U(nlimited)
Meta FU? I ain't gonna lie, that sounds sus.
Good, I made it up as a joke.
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Who has the time to play in the metaverse? To actually put up with VR or normal gaming even you need to have 1+ consecutive hours to spend. Grown ups dont have that kind of time. Wasnt meta one of the first companies to jump the RTO bandwagon? Even further diminishing the little time we have...
Lots of user generated content across most platforms is poorly designed nonsense.