I feel like the metaverse is just adspace sold as transformative technology, not for the user (not that I, the user would desire to use the metaverse) but for the marketing team to create and grow and maximise.
The idea that we have gone so far as to create "beauty in the metaverse" is chilling - not only am I already being told that I should make an idealised version of myself on the web to escape everyday life (arguably I would only be escaping everyday life because day to day capitalism is so bleak), but within this "idealised" version of myself, I should also remember to reapply my virtual concealer.
It’s depressing in the extreme. I might be in favor of the metaverse more if it was actually an improvement on reality. Instead it seems even more dystopian than the rapidly disintegrating world outside my door. Who wants that?!
They would have to pay me to make me put a pair of those monstrous goggles on my nose - and then I would still decline. I have not been less interested in something in a very long time.
How in the world did we get here this quick? Can’t I just put a little color on my cheeks and some moisture lip balm and be done with all of it! So much to consume, less is definitely more.
There’s something sad and hilarious about peddling beauty products in cyberspace. Geez! Like there’s not enough of that IRL. As sad and awful as this is, I have to hand it these companies for always seeing a potential opportunity when it arises!
I feel like the metaverse is just adspace sold as transformative technology, not for the user (not that I, the user would desire to use the metaverse) but for the marketing team to create and grow and maximise.
The idea that we have gone so far as to create "beauty in the metaverse" is chilling - not only am I already being told that I should make an idealised version of myself on the web to escape everyday life (arguably I would only be escaping everyday life because day to day capitalism is so bleak), but within this "idealised" version of myself, I should also remember to reapply my virtual concealer.
It’s depressing in the extreme. I might be in favor of the metaverse more if it was actually an improvement on reality. Instead it seems even more dystopian than the rapidly disintegrating world outside my door. Who wants that?!
They would have to pay me to make me put a pair of those monstrous goggles on my nose - and then I would still decline. I have not been less interested in something in a very long time.
theres so much the world needs...the money going to this shit could pay for all of if 🤬🫠
Eff the beauty metaverse. Give me more IRL pissy swans
How in the world did we get here this quick? Can’t I just put a little color on my cheeks and some moisture lip balm and be done with all of it! So much to consume, less is definitely more.
There’s something sad and hilarious about peddling beauty products in cyberspace. Geez! Like there’s not enough of that IRL. As sad and awful as this is, I have to hand it these companies for always seeing a potential opportunity when it arises!