Social Media Strategy
Is Meta's Horizon Worlds open to teenagers?
Answered independently in 2 episodes, by 2 different people. Every line below is verbatim from the transcript, timestamped to the moment it was said.
The short answer
What the archive says
01Meta's Horizon Worlds fell from 300,000 to 100,000 users because VR lacks the dopamine loop of likes, comments and algorithmic recommendations. source →
02Meta opened Horizon Worlds to teens in the US and Canada with age-appropriate defaults; Ryan still sees the metaverse as gaming-first and only worth testing if you market to a younger audience. source →
In their words
What 2 people actually said
But I guess it's a meta news to not that wasn't also meta, but they are opening up their social VR space horizon world to teenagers. This is controversial. They announced the expansion of the social VR platform horizon world to teen users in the US and Canada.
It's okay. The nice article is kind of metaverse news, but because meta's horizon, their world, it's shrinking and jeopardizing its metaverse ambitions. They dropped from 300,000 users to 100,000 users from Fyabiri to now.
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