How any of these dudes aren’t showing up at Zuck’s doorstep with torches and pitchforks, I’ll never understand. But then again, whatever. You got what you paid for.
Jupitersd2017 on
This was amazing satire, were people actually buying virtual ‘real estate’? Wtf would do that and why?
RobotBoy221 on
Read this in a grizzled detective voice with smooth jazz in the background for maximum effect.
It’s amazing to me how much money gets spent by people on tech they have a first grade understanding of.
rexstuff on
Pouring a virtual beer out for my homie
RichFoot2073 on
The case for taxing the shit out of these people in one long tweet
reagan_2001 on
This could be a great dramatic monologue
ATGoogles on
Fucking ART
ParadeSit on
Let’s see Paul Allen’s tweet
LordsOfJoop on
I feel that we should outsource the cries of despair needed to empty that man’s soul, just so that he can make it through a day at Panera without crying into his bread bowl.
IsThereCheese on
Your monkey is worth $0 my guy
Ready-Ad6113 on
This is the future tech bros want for us. The whole “you’ll own nothing and be happy” hits harder now.
Tabula_Nada on
“long term bullish means I can’t sell it without crying in a Panera” fucking gold my god
Itslolo52484 on
Zuck lost 80+ billion and still has a job is fucking nuts.
zefal12 on
This guy is either a raving lunatic or the greatest comedian of our era.
Maybe both
Theburper on
I briefly made the foolish mistake of observing web3 communities like a nature documentary. The only thing that wasn’t real about this post?
The undertones of regret. Everything else was SO COMMON. (Except the villa, I don’t think meta sold digital land)
theaveragenerd on
Is the game Second Life still a thing? This reminds me of people buying property in that game like decades ago.
Mutedinlife on
This tweet is a banger lmao.
BrightNooblar on
The capstone of “@Grok too long” in the final page is just… Like modern art. Some real “For sale: Baby shoes, never worn” shit.
cobracmmdr on
Whoa whoa wait wait wait….. I didnt follow the Metaverse closely because I thought it was really really..
REALLY stupid. But people paid real money for digital real estate?
Tell those people I have student loads that have digital real estate on them too
Spanks79 on
Great read.
icefergslim on
I feel zero empathy/sympathy for anyone who lost money on NFTs.
blink_187em on
Thats a lot of words to say you have more money than sense.
busche916 on
Great satire, this should be part of a book of essays on internet idiots.
I **almost** understand the appeal of the metaverse early buy-ins, they thought they could get on the ground floor of “Ready Player One”, but the tech wasn’t nearly what was promised and Zuckerberg is ultimately a sociopathic moron… but anyone who actually spent money on a jpeg of a monkey is someone who likely would’ve been institutionalized in the 19th century.
Honest_Relation4095 on
The sad thing is: Rich people bought virtual land or ape NFTs which are worthless now, but they actually don’t care too much, since they are still incredibly rich. Buying virtual land for a few millions didn’t hurt them.
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I set my money on fire and now I have no money.
It’s the fault of everybody except me.
Not to glaze too hard, but this is like… incredibly well written
This is deeper and better satire than most of Jay McInerney’s later work.
There’s a great song from 2002 called [Imaginary Places by Busdriver](https://youtu.be/-Rl4pTl832A?si=dd3YoLvMip1yb0en)
Some of the lyrics are:
Kids! If you really want to piss off your parents
Buy real estate in an imaginary place, oh yes
Bro bought a NFT house
You love to see it.
How any of these dudes aren’t showing up at Zuck’s doorstep with torches and pitchforks, I’ll never understand. But then again, whatever. You got what you paid for.
This was amazing satire, were people actually buying virtual ‘real estate’? Wtf would do that and why?
Read this in a grizzled detective voice with smooth jazz in the background for maximum effect.
Pretty obvious satire, well written but cmon OP
LITERAL SATAN
https://preview.redd.it/wbdp55ar5iqg1.jpeg?width=456&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a7780ebb1f85e1622e4d6e14aecf552a3ff7c9b9
Bret Easton Ellis ghost write this?
But I thought it was on the blockchain.
It’s amazing to me how much money gets spent by people on tech they have a first grade understanding of.
Pouring a virtual beer out for my homie
The case for taxing the shit out of these people in one long tweet
This could be a great dramatic monologue
Fucking ART
Let’s see Paul Allen’s tweet
I feel that we should outsource the cries of despair needed to empty that man’s soul, just so that he can make it through a day at Panera without crying into his bread bowl.
Your monkey is worth $0 my guy
This is the future tech bros want for us. The whole “you’ll own nothing and be happy” hits harder now.
“long term bullish means I can’t sell it without crying in a Panera” fucking gold my god
Zuck lost 80+ billion and still has a job is fucking nuts.
This guy is either a raving lunatic or the greatest comedian of our era.
Maybe both
I briefly made the foolish mistake of observing web3 communities like a nature documentary. The only thing that wasn’t real about this post?
The undertones of regret. Everything else was SO COMMON. (Except the villa, I don’t think meta sold digital land)
Is the game Second Life still a thing? This reminds me of people buying property in that game like decades ago.
This tweet is a banger lmao.
The capstone of “@Grok too long” in the final page is just… Like modern art. Some real “For sale: Baby shoes, never worn” shit.
Whoa whoa wait wait wait….. I didnt follow the Metaverse closely because I thought it was really really..
REALLY stupid. But people paid real money for digital real estate?
Tell those people I have student loads that have digital real estate on them too
Great read.
I feel zero empathy/sympathy for anyone who lost money on NFTs.
Thats a lot of words to say you have more money than sense.
Great satire, this should be part of a book of essays on internet idiots.
I **almost** understand the appeal of the metaverse early buy-ins, they thought they could get on the ground floor of “Ready Player One”, but the tech wasn’t nearly what was promised and Zuckerberg is ultimately a sociopathic moron… but anyone who actually spent money on a jpeg of a monkey is someone who likely would’ve been institutionalized in the 19th century.
The sad thing is: Rich people bought virtual land or ape NFTs which are worthless now, but they actually don’t care too much, since they are still incredibly rich. Buying virtual land for a few millions didn’t hurt them.