$META is shutting down the metaverse. They spent $90,000,000,000.00 on this 💀

@Stocktwits Looks like a $5 gen ai staff

@Stocktwits Better join the PANDUverse

@Stocktwits $90B*

@Stocktwits Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo(body even used this?)

@Stocktwits I’m old enough to remember when celebrities were buying Metaverse properties 🤣

@Stocktwits Could've fed a lot of hungry people for that amount... SMH

@Stocktwits Yea but they saved $18 billion in taxes! 🤣

@Stocktwits What i just bought the quest

@Stocktwits Don't mistake a strategic pivot for a collapse. By cutting the metaverse dead weight today, they are freeing up the cash flow to dominate the 2026 AI race. Legacy hardware is out; infrastructure and Llama-next are in.

@Stocktwits What am I supposed to do about my shift at the Metaverse chipotle?

@Stocktwits I was low key 🔑 excited

@Stocktwits The fact that they continued to pour money into this... What?!

@Stocktwits 90B$ for basically worst VRChat

@Stocktwits This is making me wanna sell my meta shares

@Stocktwits Scaling back, not a shut down

@Stocktwits Will they change their name back to Facebook?

@Stocktwits That money could’ve been used for AI instead

After ~$80–90B in Reality Labs losses since 2020 (incl. $19B+ in 2025 alone), this is a pragmatic pivot: separate VR hardware focus from social Horizon (now phone-based), cut costs, and redirect toward AI + smart glasses like Ray-Ban Meta. The big VR dream? Scaled way back, but not dead—Quest lives on, just without the metaverse core. Hype met reality.

@Stocktwits Am I a fool for really thinking little of such irresponsible company. Hard to take seriously and invest in it despite many hedge funds favoring them in recent quarters.

@Stocktwits No they didn’t. They laundered money through it.

@Stocktwits will go down as one of the biggest misallocation of capital in history $META

@Stocktwits yikes. might be a good call long term tho