distant relative at family event: It’s been so long since I saw you!! How’s school?
me: none of the things that once excited me make me happy anymore i’m living off caffeine and anxiety i’m paralyzed by my future my diet is trash and my body is slowly rotting but otherwise i’m good hbu
Harassment and abuse are serious issues and all, but this paragraph is an example of multiple articles and thinkpieces about the Metaverse written by people who 1) truly believe the Metaverse is already the next huge thing in society and 2) felt traumatized with shock that other Metaverse users can say slurs or float their cartoon characters into their personal space without their consent. Every article like this sounds as if the writer doesn’t know what video games or possibly even internet chats were before now, aren’t aware that you are allowed to take off VR glasses whenever you want, and most baffling of all, weren’t aware that Metaverse already allows you to filter out non-friends or generate a friends-only personal bubble which is information anyone can just go look up.
UPDATE my mistake, they were definitely aware of the content filtering because it’s turned on by default. They had to turn it off on purpose for any of these things to occur.
Okay wait, wait this actually gets deeper and a little more sinister.
Most of this narrative is actually being driven by the same woman I screencapped, who since 2021 has kept giving interviews about the sexual aggression and violence she says she encountered on the Metaverse.
But she’s also kept promoting the Metaverse and things like it as basically our entire future; the universal social platform society is going to revolve around any day now.
So, in other articles, she also discusses how “nobody’s sure” if violence in video games is a corruptive influence on our children, but talks in detail about the brutal violence of such games as Fornite and Minecraft.
Wait…what’s the violent video game part have to do with all this? Probably the fact that she’s also the co-founder of something called “Kabuni.”
And what is Kabuni???
Kabuni is a project to create a “kid-safe” Metaverse alternative that also introduces users to “Kabuni COIN” (always written this way) “the first cryptocurrency for children,” as well as some sort of NFT integration.
But wait….why does it also keep talking about “learning??????”
We were kinda feeling bad for this woman as we went down the rabbit hole
and discovered she’s usually the one and only person who has upvoted
any of her own tweets, but we’ve also found that her husband is some sort of notorious con-man while her father is rich enough to have founded several quasi-successful tech ventures. Her entire “I was molested on metaverse (but metaverse is great)” routine is evidently a small part of the guerilla marketing for what amounts to replacing children’s education with a crypto scheme.
