And this right here was one of the biggest problems. Unless you had read Snow Crash, most people would automatically assume that Metaverse was a Facebook produc

And this right here was one of the biggest problems. Unless you had read Snow Crash, most people would automatically assume that Metaverse was a Facebook product, and disengage for that reason alone. Actually, even those who had read Snow Crash disengaged for that reason alone (guilty as charged). At the time of the announcement, we were still emerging from Covid and the post-2020 election circus. Who in their right mind would want the Qanon flamewar experience that Facebook was providing at that time, but in full VR?