It's amazing what spending $15bn on a metaverse that everybody immediately laughs at will do to your stock price.
I don't want fb tracking me roleplaying as a catgirl or doing some other degenerate activity with my 3D avatar and "accidentally" leaking data to advertisers or worse, family and friends.
With their track record, Facebook is the last company I'll trust with my data. No wonder they had no issue rebranding with such a lousy reputation.
Immediately was prompted to create a Meta account and no longer had access to all the games I had purchased or installed years prior.
Tossed it right back in the bin it had been collecting dust in, which will likely change to the trash fairly soon.
To be ignored or laughed at is, in a traditional SV company's mind, simply stage 1 or 2 of the plan, and if stage 4 never happens it's because they were "ahead of their time" or something, never can it be that the idea is fucking stupid.
"They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown." -- Carl Sagan
The vast majority of things that are ignored, laughed at, or fought, go on to lose.