I used to work on and with a lot of folks over at Roblox and still don't understand the metaverse hype, when you ask them to explain it they go off into these s

I used to work on and with a lot of folks over at Roblox and still don't understand the metaverse hype, when you ask them to explain it they go off into these speeches that make me think they don't even understand it themselves. To me, it feels like a lot of the metaverse hype is just companies (and their founders) looking for some higher purpose, rather than just saying "we're a social network" or "we're a gaming platform".