Since Zuckerberg tried to distract us, with that dystopian announcement from his metaverse, from the scandals of leaking reports that showed the true face of the company, many have taken the bait. And some have even swallowed the cane, because everyone talks without knowing and some are paying millions without knowing why. This is the case of someone who has paid $450.000 to be a "virtual neighbor" to a legendary rapper. And it's just the beginning of the new foolishness, locura (madness), fashion that threatens to make this timeline the most depressing and boring of all.
The metaverse... if you're sick of hearing about it from a bunch of clueless people, we can make a club.
while others they are paying a lot to live "next door" to their favorite stars in it and there is even talk of the "real estate" market of the metaverse.
We tell you all the horrible details of what awaits us.
$450.000 for being Snoop Dogg's neighbor in the metaverse
In December of last year, someone whose name has not been revealed, paid that amount when famous rapper Snoop Dogg was selling "parcels" of his metaverse, snoopverse.
But it is not the only one, apparently, according to the company Metametric Solutions, the metaverse real estate market (I'm not making this up) has reached the 85 millions of dollars in sales. I don't know what they are teaching now in Economics, but the subjects must have changed a lot since I graduated.
A small paragraph for remember what you are reading El Output and not The World Today. Because yes, this is all real, not like the metaverse.
But it is not only that, a report of Brand Essence Market Research forecasts that, between 2022 and 2028, it is expected that the metaverse real estate market registers a compound annual growth rate of 31%.
If you are already thinking that you will not even be able to have a home in the virtual universes, and that they will be as depressing as the real one, you are right. People are already building a speculative economy before the metaverse itself, but wait, I'm not done.
Don't leave yet, there's still more
Apparently, things work like this, because as my mother always says: "God raises them and they get together."
When you buy a virtual parcel, you get a non-fungible token, i.e. one of those famous NFTs, which essentially represents a digital space.
How do you stay?
After creating an account on one of the metaverse platforms (there will be four thousand so that only one ends up succeeding, as always on the web) you can use your cryptocurrencies to buy land, either through the sale of land from a project or directly to the owners.
That "land" can be bought by bidding or at a fixed price, and once it's yours, you can build on it. It can be your digital mansion or a bunker for when that virtual meteorite comes that is already taking time.
And of course, you can sell it to others, of course. Of course, I suppose that with a good dose of meaningless speculation that raises the price, of course. If not, they'll kick you out of the club or something.
In short, there are people who are paying nonsense for those lands and there are four main sites where you can already buy plots According to the magazine Fortune: The Sandbox, Decentraland, Cryptovoxels and Somnium.
They have their districts, sell that space piecemeal, and probably go under when Facebook does its thing. I don't know how it goes snoopverseSnoop probably doesn't either.
Summarizing. Nobody really knows what this is about, but many already want it, they are positioning themselves and paying a lot of money to be the first or to be the one next to Snoop Dogg. That knowing Dogg, he has been in other worlds more pleasant than the metaverse for a long time, sponsored by his fondness for a certain plant.