Mark Zuckerberg’s 80-billion-dollar VR Metaverse is being scrapped in June, and the internet can’t stop laughing – 21 favourite burns
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That’s not possible. The Metaverse is the future, I’ve been told.
— Mr chili peppers (@anderdude.bsky.social) March 18, 2026 at 4:44 PM
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Oh no. My virtual real estate. Where will my apes live?
— rogue-ace.bsky.social (@rogue-ace.bsky.social) March 18, 2026 at 5:31 PM
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What’s my legless avatar supposed to do now?
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So Zuck’s bad idea didn’t work and he fired a bunch of people and he is going to play victim.
— dopre-me.bsky.social (@dopre-me.bsky.social) March 17, 2026 at 10:44 PM
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Mark Zuckerberg, 2021: “within five years, [Facebook] will be known primarily as a metaverse company.”
Mark Zuckerberg, now:
— Dave Karpf (@davekarpf.bsky.social) March 18, 2026 at 4:52 PM
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All Zuckerberg wanted was to become a real boy.
— Sanho Tree (@sanho.bsky.social) March 18, 2026 at 7:55 PM
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Zuckerberg set $83 billion on fire so he could pretend his shitty ad monopoly was interesting and innovative with the help of a lazy access tech press
then fired a ton of his employees when his incompetent gambit ran aground.
— Karl Bode (@karlbode.com) March 18, 2026 at 7:41 PM
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🤔
🙋♂️ I bet you can think of a better way to spend $88 billion
— therealdwoo.bsky.social 🚣🏻♂️🏡 (@therealdwoo.bsky.social) March 18, 2026 at 9:11 PM
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guess it didn't have legs
— Charles Louis Richter (@richterscale.bsky.social) March 18, 2026 at 8:54 PM
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The least shocking tech news I've ever seen.
— pizzacult.bsky.social (@pizzacult.bsky.social) March 18, 2026 at 8:52 PM
The Metaverse collapse is all the more ironic because of how confident Zuckerberg was that it would become the everything platform. These delusional billionaires and their tech toys!
It's amazing that Facebook was so sure this was going to take off that they renamed their company Meta
— Parker Molloy (@parkermolloy.com) March 18, 2026 at 4:58 PM
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There are words for how bad this Meta Horizon Worlds ad looks, but we’re not allowed to use them
Source The Verge Image Mark Zuckerberg, Wikimedia Commons
