The interviews “made me very convinced that this is the next big thing,” says Dokoupil, in a more traditional interview conducted via Zoom. “What was incredible was how quickly my brain stopped thinking about this as virtual reality and just took it as reality. It was just real.”

No, what’s incredible is that someone that credulous about the now defunct metaverse bullshit is allowed to talk about serious issues without a chiron constantly reiterating that he’s a colossal idiot bootlicker.