• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 days ago

    I really do love that the combined effort of all of Facebook/Meta…

    … couldn’t figure out how to make VRChat, a thing that already exists.

    These people are all frauds.

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        8 days ago

        One of the largest companies in the world pivoted their entire branding and wasted tens of billions of dollars on a failed attempt to become basically a game dev/publisher.

        See also: Amazon.

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          7 days ago

          The cynic in me wants to say that Facebook’s foray into VR was a resounding success in that it propped up their stock price until the next fad/grift could come along and take it’s place.

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            7 days ago

            I mean, that basically is how the stock market has worked in the last decade, just basically do a marketing campaign for your company/stock, and then investors get FOMO, pile in.

            You’re not really wrong, lol. Ever since the 08 GFC, the ‘economy’, as presented by the media basically just is a series of escalating bubbles in every industry.

            … which are of course now, all at the same time… deflating, unwinding, imploding.