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Metaverse Is Dead: Horizon World Shutting Down After $80B Investment

This meme features a low-polygon 3D avatar of Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg taking a selfie inside Meta's metaverse platform Horizon Worlds. In the background are low-detail, blocky user-created replicas of the Eiffel Tower and a castle, highlighting the famously poor graphics quality of the platform. The text at the top announces that after Meta spent $80 billion developing the metaverse, the project is dead and Horizon World is being shut down, mocking the massive failed investment and Meta's overhyped metaverse push.
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After $80B, the Metaverse is dead. Horizon World is shutting down

Overview

This meme features a low-polygon 3D avatar of Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg taking a selfie inside Meta's metaverse platform Horizon Worlds. In the background are low-detail, blocky user-created replicas of the Eiffel Tower and a castle, highlighting the famously poor graphics quality of the platform. The text at the top announces that after Meta spent $80 billion developing the metaverse, the project is dead and Horizon World is being shut down, mocking the massive failed investment and Meta's overhyped metaverse push.

Origin notes

This meme was reposted to 9Gag by user MARK Y WORLD, commenting on the 2024 official announcement from Meta that it would shut down its flagship metaverse platform Horizon Worlds after years of poor user adoption and over $80 billion in total investment into the metaverse project. It circulates as a joke about big tech's failed overhyped trends.

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