Comment on Smoking avatars and online games: how big tobacco targets young people in the metaverse

spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They're so desperate to make the real-life Snowcrash, Ready Player One, Matrix, they haven't even acknowledged how hard metaverse flopped. They can't stand the idea that what they really made was Worse Second Life 30 Years Later.

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  • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Apparently it mostly appeals to young children, or maybe people pretending to be young children.

    more than half of the metaverse’s active users are aged 13 and below.

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    • owlboy@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This is because they include stuff like Roblox in the definition of Metaverse.

      If we kept it to SocialVR titles, the demographics would shift to something more balanced, afaik. VRC bans people under 13 when they are discovered/reported.

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      • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Oh, so metaverse not Metaverse.

        Yeah, that isn’t confusing and stupid.

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    • Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Hopefully that means less of a little bastard’s will be in VRC.

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      • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Vampire Recreational Coffins?

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• dumbass@quokk.au ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The Meta prison purse®™

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• petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The things being smuggled are ideas. “beyond the reach of regulators,” see? It’s the advertisement nature of what’s being done here.

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  • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Nothing is being ‘smuggled’.

    They are just advertising. Regular old advertising which should have the same rules applied as any other advertising.

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    • petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They’re advertising tobacco to children, which is illegal. Why would you throw yourself on this hill?

      If they are circumventing regulators, and they are doing that, then they are smuggling advertisements to illegal targets, yes.

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      • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        What hill do you think I’m on?

        My point was that they were advertising and it should be treated as advertising, including any legal pushments for advertising to children. Advertising doesn’t involve ‘smuggling’ or other words that make zero sense in this context.

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