Grimes, musician and ex-partner of billionaire Elon Musk, has disapproved of Meta’s founder, Mark Zuckerberg’s vision for the future of the metaverse. She said that “if he’s overseeing the metaverse, it’s dead.” This Tweet came after The Independent made a Tweet saying that he basically oversees the Metaverse.
Claire Elise Boucher, or Grimes, as she’s professionally known, recently took to Twitter to decry the concept of Meta’s founder, Mark Zuckerberg, overseeing the future of the metaverse.
She talked about it with her 1.3 million followers. “If Zuck ‘oversees the Metaverse,’ it’s dead, and people who care about art and culture build something else. This is bad art, too. The quality of this image just talking about how vastly underqualified he is to build alternate reality, literally any indie game looks better.
She added: “they have proven conclusively that they are ethically incapable of running something so powerful. And shud (shouldn’t have the power they have now,” presumably referring to the scandals Facebook/Meta has been involved in over the years.
This Tweet came in response to The Independent’s announcement that Zuckerberg would appear on one of the best, yet most controversial podcasts, hosted by Joe Rogan, the UFC commentator and podcaster.
About Grimes
Grimes is a Canadian musician, singer and songwriter. Her work has been described in many ways, mainly lo-fi R&B and pop. Her lyrics often touch on science fiction and feminist themes. Since the beginning of her career in 2007, she has released five studio albums.
Boucher was in a relationship with Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk between 2018 and this year. She had 2 children with him named X Æ A-Xii and Exa Dark Sideræl. The couple broke up a few times during their relationship, but officially called it quits in March 2022.
Despite her comments about Zuckerberg, Grimes has proven to be a fan of crypto and NFTs in general. In March 2021, she sold her own NFT art and music in a collection titled ‘WarNymph’. Her platform of choice was on Nifty Gateway and it sold for a total of $6 million. At the time, she described herself as a “crypto queen”.
Does ‘Zuck’ oversee the Metaverse?
Frankly, the answer is no. Meta’s version of the metaverse isn’t fully out yet. There are already huge companies in the metaverse space with many everyday users on their platforms. Like Decentraland and The Sandbox, which are the top names in the industry.
Of course, with the huge multi-billion dollar brand that Meta, formerly Facebook, has, it’s a possibility that they’ll have the top platform at full release.
