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

Now you can sustain direct eye contact with Zuck's avatar... forever

Elizabeth de Luna

on August 19, 2022

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.

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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.