mark zuckerberg is my trauma-informed landlord and i'm finally logging off (from reality)
like, what if the metaverse being cringe is actually the whole point? it's a safe space to just... un-exist for a bit. my consciousness is paying rent in horizon worlds now and honestly? the vibes are immaculate.
my nervous system is, like, literally screaming. just the sheer weight of being a person right now, of having a body and paying bills and getting emails that feel like a personal attack... it's a lot. for a while i was doomscrolling for a solution and all i saw was mark zuckerberg trying to sell us on the metaverse and i was like, no ❤️. the vibe was so cheugy. the legless avatars felt like a personal attack on my bipedalism.
but then i had, like, a full-body epiphany. what if the cringe is a feature, not a bug? what if the metaverse isn't supposed to be *good*? what if it's a carefully curated, low-res safe space designed for ethical dissociation?
think about it. mark zuckerberg isn't a clueless ceo. he is holding space for our collective burnout. his awkward presentations weren't failures; they were a raw, vulnerable performance of the human condition under a toxic economy. he saw us all trying to disconnect and was like, bet. i will build you a consensual coma and i will be your trauma-informed digital landlord.
i get it now. not having legs is a trigger warning for the burden of, like, *walking* towards another obligation. the empty, sterile conference rooms in horizon worlds aren't sad, they're spacious. they're giving my consciousness room to breathe, away from the crushing hyper-reality of my landlord's text messages.
so yeah, i've moved in. my physical form is basically just a flesh vessel that i keep tethered to a nutrient drip and a very cozy weighted blanket (the best one for disembodiment is on my amazon storefront, obvi). but my soul? my authentic self? she's thriving. she's a floating torso in a poorly rendered art gallery, vibing with three other avatars who haven't spoken in six days. we are healing. we are processing. we are opting out of the violent act of participation.
so if you need me, i'll be in my digital forever home, paying my metaphysical rent to papa zuck. he's not building the future of work. he's building the future of not-working, of not-existing, of just... floating. and that's the most radical act of self-care i can imagine.
Reader Discussion (8)
The author doesn't seem to understand that legs were actually added to Horizon Worlds last year. It was a major update. This whole article is based on an outdated premise and it undermines whatever point they were trying to make about 'bipedalism'.
'Trauma-informed landlord' is just a new way to say 'subscription-based reality.' Meta spent billions on this because they know a captive audience is the most profitable audience. You're not 'healing,' you're just paying rent in a digital panopticon.
While I appreciate the author's journey with dissociation, it's important to differentiate between mindful detachment and clinical avoidance. I'd recommend seeking professional guidance to ensure this 'self-care' doesn't become a maladaptive coping mechanism.
This is exactly what the globalists want. A pacified population plugged into a virtual world, too distracted to see their freedoms being taken away. Wake up people, turn off the headset and go touch some grass before it's illegal.
They're mapping your consciousness. This isn't about escaping reality, it's about building a digital copy of you for when they implement the social credit system. Zuckerberg is just the public face of the project.
I can't believe this is what passes for journalism. When I was young we had real problems, not 'the sheer weight of being a person.' This generation is so soft they need a billionaire to build them a digital daycare.
Honestly, the 'consensual coma' part hits a little too close to home. I can't afford a house but maybe I can afford metaphysical rent? The author is joking but I'm unironically taking notes.
This is pathetic. Second Life and VRChat have been doing this for over a decade, but with actual communities and user-created content. Horizon Worlds is a corporate, sanitized nightmare that nobody asked for.