> ...and the industry believed them for years. Did they? From the outset, people pretty unanimously called bullshit on the metaverse and ridiculed Zuckerberg.

> ...and the industry believed them for years. Did they? From the outset, people pretty unanimously called bullshit on the metaverse and ridiculed Zuckerberg. Facebook's own advertising of the metaverse wasn't even ever designed to attact users, it was very obviously designed to make people think there were revenue sources buried in the multiverse. They never had a product or even a particularly coherent idea for one.