🍪 Meta’s meta struggles

Top of the mornin’ to ya, friends. Welcome to Bite Sized Beta, where we give you your daily scoop of knowledge with a heaping side of memes.

We got a nice feast for ya this week, so let’s get to it.

In the oven this week:

• 🤷🏻‍♂️ Meta’s metaverse is too meta, even for employees
• 🍪 Cookie crumbs: 8 bite-sized treats
• 🗳 Poll of the week
• 🍫 Chocolate chips: 5 fun finds
• 😂 Snickerdoodles: weekend memes

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FRESHLY BAKED: META’S META STRUGGLES

Sometimes it sounds nice to be a billionaire. Imagine what you could do with 10 million 100 dollar bills: use it as toilet paper, light it on fire, make the world’s most expensive paper mache, the possibilities are endless!

But then we look at Zuck these days and think, eh, maybe we’ll stick with being poor.

Because man, it’s been a rough year for our guy Zuck.

Meta’s stock down over 60%, layoffs are rolling in, and he’s personally lost $75 billion in net worth this year. Not to mention he’s the most meme-able tech CEO, no matter what he does.

Now he’s got a new problem. Horizon Worlds, its metaverse, is just not taking off.

It’s supposed to be a set of virtual worlds where people can game, party, shop…