Twitter can’t stop dunking on Meta's Horizon Worlds

Now you can sustain direct eye contact with Zuck's avatar... forever
By Elizabeth de Luna  on 
An avatar of Zuckerberg, with wide soulless green eyes and a charcoal 3/4 sleeve shirt, stares at you. Behind him is a rudimentary rendering of the Eiffel Tower and la Sagrada Familia church.
Haunting. Credit: Meta / Mark Zuckerberg

It has been a rough week for the metaverse, my friends. Meta launched their Horizon Worlds platform in Spain and France and reception was… frigid. That's mostly thanks to the unimpressive graphics and awkward, lifeless avatars, all of which might be forgiveable if Meta had not spent a significant portion of a reported $10 billion developing them.



I'm no stranger to critiques of Meta, but it gives me very little pleasure to see the metaverse being misunderstood in such a massive way. And that's not the public’s fault—it’s Meta’s.

Anyway, here are the best tweets dunking on Horizon Worlds.

Wonderful stuff

Is the metaverse just Sims for Web3?

Sigh I miss the real Mii

New fear: unlocked

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Throwback!

POV: Your best friend is suing you for $600 million

Oops

Yeah...

Zuck is baby

The world is so big and beautiful, can't wait to explore it from the comfort of my own home!

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Elizabeth de Luna
Culture Reporter

Elizabeth is a digital culture reporter covering the internet's influence on self-expression, fashion, and fandom. Her work explores how technology shapes our identities, communities, and emotions. Before joining Mashable, Elizabeth spent six years in tech. Her reporting can be found in Rolling Stone, The Guardian, TIME, and Teen Vogue. Follow her on Instagram here.


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