Comment on Smoking avatars and online games: how big tobacco targets young people in the metaverse
HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth 3 months agoThey'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.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Apparently it mostly appeals to young children, or maybe people pretending to be young children.
owlboy@lemmy.world 3 months 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.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Oh, so metaverse not Metaverse.
Yeah, that isn’t confusing and stupid.
owlboy@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Yeah it sucks. Meta shit all over the term. And then every other company jumped on board claiming their stuff is a metaverse too. Even Microsoft claimed Teams was a metaverse.
Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
Hopefully that means less of a little bastard’s will be in VRC.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Vampire Recreational Coffins?
Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
(VRChat)