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Comment by karmakurtisaani | Hacker News Reader

I wonder if they've calculated how much Zuckerberg's terrible personal brand is costing the company and potential adaptation of this metaverse thing. It's already difficult to like, but with someone like Zuck selling it it becomes just terrible cringe.

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I really enjoyed hearing him talk one on one for three hours with Joe Rogan the other day. Normally he comes off as robotic and awkward but it made me realize he’s extremely intelligent, has a wide breadth of knowledge on a large number of topics, and just gets nervous the same way most of us would while reading off a script during a corporate event.

His answers came off to me as scripted responses that were practised beforehand multiple times with actors.

Yes, he has the company lines well rehearsed. But he was also admits he's a mortal human who didn't choose to be the moderator between the geo-political battle lines that have manifested themselves through today's social media. And he probably understands the nuances of that unique responsibility better than any of us here.

I don't understand saying "He didn't choose to be" - yes, he absolutely at every point made the choice to attain and maintain power to do this, this is absolutely false.

Or he made choices to become a successful digital ad-deliverer in a world where Google exists, and the rest was a by-product.

Perhaps Zuck hired Nathan Fielder:

https://www.vox.com/culture/23319898/rehearsal-review-finale...

// This is not the worst concept for helping engineers-turned-leaders.

There seems to be a big cost with being unattractive. Poor Zuck. Elon musk can get away with murder (by falsely claiming full self driving) and nobody will bat an eye. Sergey Brin and Larry Page have even managed to get out of the limelight despite harvesting more data than facebook. Zuck never seems to catch a break.

It has nothing to do with being unattractive. It has to do with launching anything that anyone cares about. Elon can get away with being a jerk because of what he's done with Spacex and Tesla. Sergey and Larry built a search engine that people love not to mention Gmail, Maps, Android. Does anyone really love FB? What major feature has FB launched besides buying Whatsapp and Instagram?

Bill Gates isn't attractive and people give him respect. People camped out for WindowsXP. People love Lisa Su, the CEO of AMD. Tim Cook is on the same level of Zuck. He releases stuff that people care about.

Zuck needs to launch something that matters and get respect back. If he can't do that, he needs to step down from Meta.

Just look at majority of the comments in reddit where people don’t try to be so politically correct. All of them are about his looks.Even his avatar can’t catch a break.

It’s not about him being ugly but him being robotic. He’s had work done which doesn’t help , Botox freezing expressions, but all the shit Zuckerberg gets is that. And frankly considering how he’s undermined our democracy he’s got off light with a little mocking.

In another era there’d be pitchforks.

Avatar is pretty cringy if you make comments that the metaverse is going to change the world and that you're spending billions of dollars on it. Quality isn't there and the fact that he was proud of it was very cringy.

It’s the other way around. People make fun of him because they don’t respect him or what he does.

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