The Metaverse is So Stupid

I spent the last two weeks making a video about how I think the current meta and product in the

metaverse

is a little

stupid

and then what does old Marky Mark do? Air this ad during the Super Bowl. A Chucky Cheese type dog, Freddy Fazbear, getting his redemption arc by entering the

metaverse

, I can't in good conscience call this ad or this product

stupid

, so I just want you to do me a favor, ignore everything I say in this video. I take it all back, hello and welcome to my channel if you want. You're new here and you're thinking if that guy looks like boss baby daddy and inside out dad had a kid.

Am I the only one who thinks this guy looks like this emoji but also this emoji? Does anyone else think he looks alike? every white guy with glasses and a mustache i've ever seen yes they all do it i hear it all the time because i'm online an online person it's the reality i live in and it's terrible but today's topic It's perfect because I'm looking to escape that reality and enter the new reality, the next step in human evolution, the metaverse doesn't want to edit an echo, it's too much work first, I'm sure you already knew this a few months ago, Facebook changed the name of their company meta, which is Cool because I'm stupid and I hated Facebook, but meta, that's a new company, I don't know what they are, they've never done anything bad to me.

Now Facebook has paid a $5 billion fine to the FTC for violating its users' privacy. It's just a new company, all you have to do if you don't like it is take your name and change it to something futuristic. Comcast changed their name to xfinity which is like infinity but with an x ​​and that's cool, that's why I still send emails. oj and I keep telling you to change your name to blizmo it sounds futuristic it sounds great I haven't received a response yet but I'm waiting for one I'm sure you also know that in addition to changing your name to meta they change direction as a company and the new product they are creating the metaverse, which is a great name because right when you hear it it just triggers that response of uh, what is it, what is it, what is it, what is the metaverse, I don't know. what that means, so if you're not really keeping up with the news, you might be thinking why does Facebook do this first.

I don't even think I need to explain myself when I say that no one trusts Facebook as a company, no matter where you are. falls politically no matter how old you are, you probably feel like Facebook has violated your privacy at some point, which is why over the years their name has steadily gotten worse in the public eye and pretty much at the exact moment they changed their name a meta were also I'm dealing with a whistleblower controversy Facebook whistleblower I don't know if you guys saw this last night on 60 Minutes but now he's accusing the social media giant of misleading the public and the company's investors.

I'll put links in the description. This is a very vague summary of what happened, but the whistleblower essentially claimed that there were many cases where Facebook had statistics knowing they were harming society and did nothing to change it while publicly saying they would do everything they could if they changed. the algorithm. To be sure, people will spend less time on the site, click on fewer ads, make less money, plus for the first time last week we found out that Facebook has lost users after years and years of repeated growth. I can't definitively say that Facebook and Instagram are dying, but if I asked you if you thought they were the social media sites of the future, you would probably say no, as young people are less interested in their platforms and lack confidence for the company, they need a new product and a new name so now we've reached the meta so it's been a few months since they announced the metaverse and I just wanted to talk about how in its current state the metaverse is so stupid and it's stupid mainly because how Facebook announces this new product, so I want to get into that and I think the perfect way to do that is to first watch the original video of how they announced the metaverse.

Today we will talk about the metaverse. When I started Facebook that mostly meant text we typed on computers, then we all got phones with cameras and the Internet became much more visual and recently, as connections got faster, video has become the primary way in that we experience the content, not just to score points here, but it's really trying to draw a line that there was text, then photo, then video and now it's going to be virtual reality, but online video is definitely not recent. YouTube is 17 years old, even with connections getting faster, it's been over a decade since YouTube took over, you can.

I'm not really saying it recently, but this is not the end of the road, the next platform and a half will be even more immersive. We believe that the metaverse will be the successor to the mobile Internet, so the metaverse is presented as a successor to the Internet and if your first thought is oh God, oh God, please don't let this guy be the president of the new Internet, Please let's not let this happen, oh god please, to anyone but him, I think that's the normal reaction. Now this will require not only technical aspects. functioning like some of the important projects going on around crypto and nfts in the community now will also require establishing ecosystem building standards and new forms of governance okay so Mark mentions crypto nfts and a new form of governance, my big problem with a The new form of governance in the metaverse is that Facebook had all these privacy problems.

There will be a new rule for privacy in the metaverse. This is something we will really focus on. Privacy and security must be built into the metaverse from day one. Oh, okay, so you change your Facebook name and you'll do new things about privacy. You will not steal or sell our information. I'd love to hear that from you, Mark. It would be amazing, what are these new privacy rules? You'll be able to decide when you want to be with other people, when you want to block someone from appearing in your space, or when you want to take a break and teleport to a private bubble so you can be alone and practically have a list of friends. and blocking people and having a private room to yourself which sounds a lot like xbox live features when I was in 6th grade doesn't sound like anything new mark it looks like this new building block is the same as the rest of The Internet Brand goes on to say a lot of vague futuristic ideas like this, an embodied Internet where you are in the experience, not just looking at it and we call this the metaverse and you will be able to do almost anything you can imagine. meet friends and family work learn play buy create, as well as completely new categories that don't really fit what we think about computers or phones today, but what they currently offer what their product is right now well, it's something Called horizon worlds, welcome to a place of unlimited possibilities a place where you can invent things, transform things, create entire worlds here you can find your community, can you play with the boomerang?

That's a thought you might have: What kind of authority do I have to talk about this? You know I'm not in Silicon Valley, I'm not a businessman, well I have something to admit to you guys and it will be a surprise, I'm a gamer, I know I hate to say it, but I'm just like you. and besides being a gamer, I'm a bit of a virtual reality enthusiast. That said, this new part of the metaverse is not only silly but already something I have something to show you if you don't use VR, so here's the horizon. worlds, look at it carefully, these are people hanging out in a virtual reality space created by meta employees or users, you can play games, you can talk well with other people if you are not a gamer, what if I told you that?

This exact experience has been around for a long time, the most popular being VR chat. I'm sure you've seen some kind of meme for this game. It's absolutely crazy and unhinged, yet it already exists and Mark is releasing his new metaverse material. like the new internet, when this has been around since February 2017, five years ago, and it's not like vr chat isn't popular if you go to Steam right now, you go to vr as a category and click on what's being experienced first . VR chat is the most popular thing to experience in VR right now on PC and by speaking of that, I mean not only are there VR games like rec room, but we've also had games in those that you can exist as an avatar on a social network. space with people since I don't even know when club penguin second life poptropica Wizards 101 world of warcraft the list goes on and on where isn't the idea of ​​creating a space where you can exist with avatars and socialize with people we all already know. a new idea though, Mark is presenting it as is, but it's a bit silly at this point, especially with how big the company is and how much Facebook originally changed the social landscape of the internet forever.

Then there are avatars and this is how we are going to represent ourselves in the metaverse. Avatars will be as common as profile pictures today, but instead of a static image, they will be living 3D representations of you, so Mark begins to talk about the benefits of socializing with people in the metaverse when I don't. I don't know if you saw this leak, this is the real reason Mark created these avatars in the first place. Do you have a favorite feature to use here? Yes, something that seems cool to you. Check this out. Wow, that's pretty good.

It's incredibly cool so like I said we're focusing right now on the current metaverse obviously they're releasing AR technology in the future where you won't have to put on a VR headset or maybe sometimes you will to have a more immersive experience. You'll be able to move through these different experiences on all sorts of different devices, sometimes using virtual reality so you're completely immersed, sometimes using augmented reality glasses so you can be present, so now I just have to say the new version of The Internet cannot be alone in virtual reality, it is too vulnerable an experience if you have not used virtual reality frequently, you should not only put it in your eyes but also cover your ears so that both senses are not used on a daily basis. world, which means that if there are other people living in your house or you are worried about a robbery, you have to completely isolate yourself from everything if you have children, you can't take care of them if you have pets, good luck, if that's the case.

It happens to them because you're in the middle of a crazy race and you hit the saber you can't stop that cool edm song you're on a roll right now I think it's pretty obvious like people don't want to lock themselves into the Internet they want interesting experiences in virtual reality and some They could be social, but you don't want your entire Internet experience or even most of it to exist in virtual reality, imagine the other way around, imagine the only way you could experience the Internet the only way. you could watch YouTube videos or go to Twitter or tick tock.

The only way to do this is by using a VR headset. What would be the next invention for the Internet? I think it would be putting it on a portable device so you can experience the real world, but also use the Internet if you need to, where you don't have to lock yourself away and be at home to be on the Internet. I could go for a walk in nature, but also check Twitter, that would be the next step. I think it's especially in the marketing of this because if Mark wasn't saying things like this, you can start to see how the metaverse will allow for richer experiences by allowing us to add new layers to the world that we can interact with. just be an interesting side project they're working on when talking about enriching real-life experiences. mark was referencing this technology to take someone to a concert when they can't attend in person imagine your best friend is at a concert somewhere on the other side of the world. world, what if you could be there with her? you're here, but does this make the experience of going to a concert richer? no, but we're not just talking about metaverse concerts, we're talking about the after party, what if there was one? after party that anyone could go to no matter where they were oh there's style and when you go to the after party you can connect with other fans, listen to new versions of your favorite songs and see the merch that just released oh I like that, well, now. you have to understand thanks for coming today you know, I know we gave your company two billion dollars to make a revolutionary idea for the metaverse, let's see what you got right, so why do you go to concerts to see artists live what I love? and in person, oh, okay, okay, so we can't do that or kind of the image that you're going to see.

Doji Cat image as a Doja Cat bitmoji. It's that good, not really. Oh, it's fine. Why else don't you go? to a concert to experience the music played inI live in front of me with a group of people, well, then the music is not live, you hear it through the Internet and the people are real, but to you they are not like a digital projection and one of them is a giraffe for some reason reason, so it's almost like all the reasons you would go to a concert don't exist for a virtual concert, so we gave you two billion dollars.

I guess we'll give you a billion more. You'll probably find out, yeah, no, sure, we'll just spend that money really well, so other than trying to save the company, why would Mark want something that's the new Internet? Why wouldn't he want to integrate it with the current one? The internet we all use would probably be the easiest for consumers. Many other companies like Google and Apple control many spaces and purchases of the Internet and Mark doesn't want it, he wants it all, he wants it all under the umbrella. Goal, I mean, they could come up with some interesting technology that we'll all need, but so far nothing we've seen is what we need, especially when they launch something like a virtual concert.

I try to be completely unfair and pretend that the whole tone of the metaverse is what they currently have, but I think it's important to focus. in that brand mentions things like AR technology where you could have a dollar TV projected on your wall instead of having to pay for a real one and part of me starts to think you know, hey, that could be cool, but It's so giant butt there are two big old cheeks I want to talk about cheek number one it's facebook we don't trust facebook at all they have never had the best interest of the consumer in mind we know they knew they were doing harm to society and they don't I don't nothing to fix it on purpose.

I don't want to hand the keys to a new Internet to that company or to this guy, cheek number two. Not only is it being presented as a cool new technology, it's being presented as the new way I'm going to exist online and it feels super dystopian. Okay, I want to experience nature in the real world. I want most of my social interactions to be in the real world and this idea that most of our interactions will become this virtual space is a little scary. I just want to go touch some weed too, as I mentioned before, VR stuff isn't a new idea, it's Facebook doing what it's always done.

Instagram stole videos from Vines and then tick tocks with Instagram Reels and Snapchat stories. Facebook did the same thing with a lot of features, but they present them as their own idea and that's exactly what they're doing with the start of the metaverse, which isn't a great start to stealing other people's ideas and pretending they're your own, but Before we were already on those platforms. so they said, we know you have a Facebook account, we know you have an Instagram account, we're going to tempt you not to go on these other apps because we'll just steal what they had, but now they're trying to convince us to jump on a new one. ship, they have a sinking ship and they have used funds and wood from the sinking ship to make a new ship that they are not sure will float and they are asking us to jump in with them and I don't exactly want to do that, especially when I know which suck and I think that's the feeling of most people and I think most people just don't think it's such a revolutionary idea and they don't think Facebook is worth trusting because it's not. how revolutionary, but there's also a giant elephant in the room that I haven't really addressed in this video, but I need to say how I feel about it or I won't feel good about posting this video and yes, I'm going to talk about nfts. for a second before commenting that I don't know what I'm talking about, maybe I'm sure I'm just an average person, but I've done my best to try and watch nft stuff over the last few months.

Saying that blockchain technology has no use in the future, but this nft thing, especially with the metaverse, doesn't make any sense. One of the ideas they showed us before is if you're at an after party, a digital after party for a John Bates concert. you could buy nft caps and hoodies, what would you use that for and why wouldn't you pay for it like you do anything online with a regular dollar, oh because then you could take it places other than the metaverse, where are you going to take it ? a john batiste hoodie from the virtual metaverse other than horizon worlds i want you to really think about this i want you to sit down and i want you to think of another place you could wear that hoodie and no, don't you dare say oh, a video game, what if you could wear that hoodie in Warzone?

Okay, what a dumb way to spend your money. It is so disturbing to see such a giant technology company with so much control over the world's balls start pricing a new Internet where they will have everything. control and include a scam at the beginning of that new Internet. I don't even know if every nft is a scam, but I know that if you are actively involved in many of them, you can very likely expect to scam someone. or you are currently being scammed and Mark Zuckerberg knows that he doesn't want you to go into the metaverse and buy nfts for your own benefit and anyone who believes in this stuff and says: "wow, the metaverse and nft stuff is really exciting, do you "Did you forget everything?" The other things Facebook did, am I living in a strange world?

It's like they watched social media but turned it off right when Mark started being a, which was like two minutes in God. This makes me want to reach out to mark Mark Zuckerberg, grab a vr headset out of his face and andrew garfield that on a desk sorry my brother is at the cleaners along with my nft john baptiste hoodie and my flip flops