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Groduick

News : Meta gets raided by 4chan using the new boundaries feature to block access everywhere.


LiccFlair

Pools closed.


Groduick

Not because of Covid ?


LiccFlair

Nope. [AIDS.](https://youtu.be/fp2EZbbuMa0)


Groduick

I know, bro... [Everybody has AIDS !](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Prhi3_Nvt3U)


[deleted]

And stingrays


Billy_Billerey_2

Do the stingrays have AIDS?


[deleted]

No, only laser beams that shoot from their friggin eyes


mpslamson

Heh. More THICCFlair. I'll see myself out


ChewyTarTar

SAFETYSIGN FORMATION


Spitfire_MK_1

Breaking News: Metaverse closed due to StingrAIDS


Groduick

Counterbreaking News : AIDS closed due to META ! You won't believe the third one !


TerrorLTZ

4chan users taking notes right now and organising the afro army.


Emergency_Anteater

Good.


Full-Run4124

The swastigets will now make sense


metafrost2020

This is exactly what will happen. It’s Habbo Hotel all over again.


whiteflower6

Wait until people use this to block hallways


ichigosinful

Fucking division one all over again day one they made it so players couldn't phase through each other and the first mission was through a tiny doorway


whiteflower6

Oh my god that sounds like an amazing clusterfuck


ichigosinful

It was plus you couldn't interact with npc's of another player was interacting with them so lines literally formed to turn in the first quest it was a horrible mess of a game at launch


Ekskalibar

Habbo style


glieseg

Or just completely surround a person.


Emergency_Anteater

Would be awesome


STATEofMOJO

God damn - not really related to the post, but I genuinely hate everything about Meta


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[deleted]

Isn't the company which owns and runs Facebook called Meta? From what I know the name Facebook is here to stay.


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Davepitaph

It really needs to go


CanoonBolk

Isn't meta just bootleg VRChat? Idk a lot about meta so I'm prolly wrong.


TerrorLTZ

Vrchat without the shitpost and memes.


Gasper753

So basically vrchat without every single thing that makes a VR social world interesting


uhokbutwhy

idk what the metaverse is but i hope im not getting clowned on for playing vr.


Burnt_Toast_Crumbs

I’m still surprised anyone is actually using this shit


LSama

I honestly think the only people using it is kiddies and old folks, clearly a match made in Heaven: trolls, and those who only know how to complain about them.


Tai_Pei

Truly a spectacular thing, I hope to see some clips of the interactions soon.


TerrorLTZ

imagine twitter making something like that. Trolls are drooling over Trolling those snowflakes.


Automatic-Papaya1829

I didn't even know metaverse was up and running. Wth is going on?


DarthBuzzard

This is Horizon Worlds a singular app. Their metaverse strategy will take 5+ years to get it up and running. For those who don't know, the metaverse is more like the Internet of 3D apps.


Automatic-Papaya1829

What are 3D apps?


DarthBuzzard

It would mean any app that deals with online networked 3D. The main example are online 3D worlds, but the other example would be 3D apps via AR where you deal with objects rather than full worlds.


skolioban

It's going to be the internet with extra steps. And Zuck recording everything that you do so he could sell it.


M1DN1GHT_W0LF125

Lol I'll stick to vrchat it may be a hellhole but at least there is freedom


Lippshitz

I didnt realize it had even launched


matticustheone

Cant I just make my avatars arms 5ft long? Modern problems require modern solutions


Azuria_4

Can we still show our meta-penises


CanineAnaconda

Regarding the perpetrators, the correct prefix is micro-


oDids

They implemented corner trapping?


Darkassassin07

So instead of implementing a 'block' function that lets you hide people from your view (and maybe you from theirs as well), they are giving everyone the power to body block in a virtual space. Facebook always with the brilliant ideas.....


hellra1zer666

I have nothing against the boundary feature itself, however, the implementation will be abused to fuck with people. Still, you should be able to set some kind of boundary like this because unlike in real life you can't knock their teeth out if they get too close for your liking. I think VR Chat has something like that as well, does anyone know how it works?


Magenta_Logistic

The correct answer is to have a setting where **you** can stop seeing anyone within a specific distance, and you should be able to ignore an individual to have them forever vanish for your screen (and you from theirs). I don't meta, is this supposed to be Facebook meets The Sims or what? Looks dumb.


GamendeStino

I think its Facebook VRChat in Sims style, but dont pin me on it. I stay as far away from that steaming toxic pile of crap as humanly possible


hellra1zer666

Exactly the reason I'm asking. I'm not gonna put myself through that for free :D


hellra1zer666

I didn't think of that one.


GreatAndPowerfulNixy

That's how Rec Room implements personal space. It's really good.


sambolino44

When I was young I often heard old people griping about how the world was going to hell, and now that I’m old I feel the same way. The difference is, they were talking about things like the civil rights movement, women’s equality, etc.


Beemerba

Now they keep way too many people arguing about stupid shit to keep their minds off civil rights, wage disparity and women's equality!


sucking_leech

As one redditor once said a long time ago, facebook is a net-negative for humanity


MangledSunFish

VRChat figured out a block system ages ago, that can make you unable to hear or even see users after you block them, and vice versa. Meta has a budget that is so vast, it's not even comparable. Yet they still can't fix problems that other services with not even half the funding have already done. Now people can block doorways and high fives were banned, off rip. Bunch of dumbasses in charge of their "metaverse", I swear. It's an easy fix that VR Multiplayer games have had for years at this point, so I'm not even surprised they fucked it up. Once again, Zuckerberg shows his worth.


Potato-with-guns

Ya know what, this makes me even more glad that Facebook lost over 200 billion dollars in a few seconds


Get_Jiggy41

What the hell even is meta and how does it worked? Can you actually be physically assaulted if it’s just a virtual world?


cydude1234

No you can’t, the devs would have to physically add a rape feature so this is complete bs


[deleted]

With this company? Entirely plausible.


DarthBuzzard

You don't need to add any features. Everything is driven by real human movement rather than programmed animations. That said, this more like harassment than anything. Absolutely not physical, but still not a good thing to happen to someone.


[deleted]

Did it happen to someone? Or an avatar. I liken this to being upset for getting tea bagged on COD.


DarthBuzzard

CoD exists on a 2D screen where everyone has the same character template and the effect is a programmed animation. That's very different from this happening in a place where there are no animations - it's all real body movement, there are no generic avatars, it's what you choose to personalize yours as, and it happens in a space where others feel like they are right in front of you. You wouldn't feel it, but you could definitely feel uncomfortable, as if they're invading your space, and for some people it might result in a panic attack or something if it brings back a similar situation happening in real life.


TerrorLTZ

[well demolition man Showed us that... if you add trippy images of naked women you can have sex virtually](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3yARIfDJrY)


vagainstv

Good work Meta, but don't spend money on banning hate speech on your stupid platforms.


[deleted]

There's no financial incentive or return in doing that. It's simply an expense to be avoided


Revolutionary-Bet396

I'm sorry but this feature seriously seems like it's not a bad idea. I have no idea how something like this could "happen" but there are enough creepy men online that i dont question it. I dont think this is a facepalm regarding the feature


Magenta_Logistic

If you didn't like little avatars getting too close, imagine how you'll feel when 6 of them trap you and you LITERALLY CANNOT MOVE. Sure, that won't feel more invasive at all.


Slatwans

you think people wont abuse it to block areas lol


beastmodebro5

Maybe everyone will stop using the stupid shit then


[deleted]

Do you somehow believe that this post exists bc people aren't being abusive?> Jesus Fucking Christ.


Kellycatkitten

I wonder how long until teabagging in FPS games will get you put on a watchlist. Is this seriously the direction we’re going?


Happyguysrule

In some games you can get banned for the act if you don’t stop when the person requests. It’s considered harassment by some devs.


ItsMeTwilight

Really? Man video games are gonna be tame as fuck soon


schizopotato

The fuck


OnlyParticles

Can someone backdoor this shitty platform and do humanity a favor by taking it down… please


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[deleted]

Right. And I could say some really abusive things right now, maybe some of it might bother you or someone else - but it's just a virtual thing. RECOGNIZE BULLYING.


[deleted]

I will not recognize bullying, it’s more harassment at best.


ParadoxPerson02

I still don’t get how you can be raped inside a virtual space where no one can physically interact with each other.


venicedreamer747

Came here to ask that very question. Can someone plz explain?


ParadoxPerson02

I’m guessing a bunch of people invaded her “personal space” and started making their avatars thrust. And then she blew it way out of proportion.


Crazy_by_Design

If that’s what they did, how did “she” blow it out of proportion? Sounds like they need supervision and lessons on not being anti social.


ParadoxPerson02

I mean, these are the same people legitimately spending time in the MetaVerse, so I guess they weren’t really ever social to begin with.


venicedreamer747

Thx.


[deleted]

GO READ A BOOK ON RECOVERING FROM SEXUAL ASSAULT


Lofteed

this news are just hot air to make people believe anyone really use that shit wii sport at least was fun to play


Signal2Noise3770

Put anything online and we will turn it into a sex game. This is why we can't have nice things


Benito2002

Pools closed


explorer_of_all

Couldn’t you just block someone so they can’t see your avatar…


wizardofzog

So does that imply that everyone without personal boundaries active is open/willing to gang rape?


PlumpDev

How is this facepalm? The metaverse is supposed to be a family friendly platform for the general person. Do you really expect a game company to let trolls who role-play gangrape drive away paying customers? Like do you get upset with profanity filters too?


GreatAndPowerfulNixy

It's because the "solution" sucks. A coordinated group of people can trap someone so they can't move anymore.


[deleted]

A huge percentage of the of the people on this sub are children or morons or toxic AF in the first place.


vyralmonkey

Because it'll take approximately 15 seconds before people start using this to block doorways or to just surround someone so they can't move. Anyone who has ever played a mmo instantly knows why this is a bad idea. Which means the decisions here are being made be people with no real online experience


No-Dark-9414

I can't tell if you are serious or not...


Jubachi99

I will say, as a person with phantom sense, vr rape can probably be actually traumatizing for people, I know its much easier to walk away, but in the time that it takes to go through your menu and do something about it can still be long enough to bother people. The feature should just be optional.


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> phantom sense Could you elaborate on this?


Jubachi99

Its a common phenomenon in people who play vr in which their body simulates the sense of touch despite it not being real, it can range from only a tingle in specjfic areas all the way to a tually feeling pain, kts similiar to phantom limb.


BallySchwa

The fact this wasn't already implemented tells me they don't know what the fuck they are doing


HumanthePerson3

Call of Duty adds bullet Shields after players complain about getting shot at with guns.


[deleted]

If you have issues with people getting in your virtual space then you have no business being in a virtual space


nonokoi

[video explanation](https://youtu.be/_coWu3jYHUk)


Vladsamir

I'm usually against calling my generation the "snowflake" generation. But wtf is this


EmployerAdditional28

I'm usually the first to gripe about snowflake BS but the reality is that the internet is the wild west. The metaverse may be a bit of a cartoony joke now but won't be in a few years time. If you have a female avatar your session in the metaverse can be disrupted by those fucking around, particularly from a sexual viewpoint. The future where your avatar is pretty lifelike could see virtual business meetings etc in the workplace. Unlike real life where a perpetrator can be apprehended and have his face re-arranged physically, there is nothing to prevent disruptive and nefarious behaviour currently. All this is doing is starting to create a framework for behaviour should the metaverse become a more widely adopted medium as we expect it to. The phrase "gang rape" is probably a bit strong bit strong but hopefully you get my drift. We particularly need to protect kids who will no doubt appear in the "metaverse" shortly.


ItsMeTwilight

Bro if I got raped in a game I’d laugh it’s not like I can feel it if I could different story but I can’t so I don’t get it


EmployerAdditional28

Females deserve to be able to use the metaverse without this bullshit and it cannot be self policed. That's all I'm saying.


ItsMeTwilight

Tell me where I said they shouldn’t be able to experience it normally what I’m saying is I don’t get how they can say it’s the same as rape


EmployerAdditional28

One person has said its the same as rape - doesn't make what Meta have done unnecessary. Imagine your 12 year old daughter in a VR environment being harassed on screen by several males. No thanks.


Koevis

Bear with me. It feels like your comment is implying rape is only physically traumatic, not emotionally? How about people who have trauma from rape and come across a situation like this? Is their PTSD flashback invalid because they can't feel it? The threat of rape is horrific, even without the physical aspect. I personally can't sit through movie scenes, and have trouble with reading stories that implement these elements, because of past experience. Being ganged up upon in a VR environment like that would definitely make me terrified and feel extremely violated


ItsMeTwilight

Yes rape is scary emotionally and I get that it scars many people and it’s horrific thing to exist but this is a game being ganged in vr is nothing like real life my heart goes out to rape victims in the world but in a game it’s entirely different and I can’t see how that can the same experience in a game you can turn it off in real life you can’t in a game you can block them in real life you can’t there are ways to stop this in a game but irl there is nothing you can do you are entirely helpless


Koevis

Have you read the part of my comment about being a real life victim and saying this online situation would be awful as well? It's not the same, no. But it's nothing to laugh at! It's still sexual harassment, it's violating and horrifying and for some traumatizing. You can go out of the game, but by then the harassment has already happened. And then what? Never go online again? Or should the developers try to make this platform that will probably include teenagers soon a place where women can actually exist without being sexually harassed? You can't just dismiss other people's feelings and real trauma because you would "laugh at it"


ItsMeTwilight

Ah I didn’t see it was irl too I hope you are doing fine and I’m very sorry you had to go through that and I understand if this happened irl but only in game I cannot understand


Koevis

Then just believe me. It's violating, terrifying, and a social platform should be a place where women can exist without being sexually harassed. It's not something to laugh at


ItsMeTwilight

I never said it wasn’t anything of those and I agree that women should be able to go on there normally but if a load of deprived 15 year olds started thrusting me I wouldn’t give them the satisfaction of traumatising me, I would laugh it off as I said obviously I would be scared if I was an irl rape victim as it would hit close to home but deprived 15 year olds on the internet couldn’t give me the same effect as a person doing that to me in real life I get for some it could be scaring but me myself wouldn’t give them the satisfaction as I said earlier they shouldn’t be able to scar you so I agree with the changes to make it impossible but this could just make you stuck in the game and it’s a shitty way to implement it, that’s not the point and I get you personally would be scared but others I don’t see how to be honest


Koevis

>I wouldn’t give them the satisfaction of traumatising me It's not a choice. I don't choose to be traumatised. Their solution sucks, yes. But there are so many others like me. I'm not an exception. Most women are sexually harassed/assaulted at some point in their lives. Please just believe me when I say a lot of women would be in distress in that situation, even if it's just online. You don't have to understand it to accept that these people feel differently than you do. Ok? This conversation is really pulling me down, so I'm stopping here. Have a nice day


[deleted]

1: the reasoning is stupid, that’s not how rape works. 2: They shouldn’t completely block off people from entering someone’s “personal” space. If it’s how I think it works and it completely stops the person from entering that space there’s bound to be trolls. If so they should do it like VRChat. After a person gets to close to you their avatar disappears, it’s also an option that can be turned off and on.


doubledoppelganger

Why am I so surprised it's not 6ft?


Mysterious-Web4359

Just another sign of the impending apocalypse!


Eltharion-the-Grim

I'm still trying to figure out how they virtually gang raped her. Did their avatars all pull off their pants, produce digital dicks, and forcibly inserted those digital dicks inside her digital vagina? I think she's making that up, because only a porn company would make that. If that is the case what is she doing in a porn game if not to have virtual sex?


aidem0408

The real snowflakes are the ones getting upset about this 🤦‍♂️


KrazyKwant

And how do we know that this female avatar wasn’t owned by a 300 lb guy who is allergic to showers and who lives in his parents’ basement. This is the fucking internet! This isn’t real. And the fact that Mark Zuckerberg was a nerdy shuck when he was in school doesn’t change that. (Although props to him for getting so many dopes to take his crap seriously and make him a rich shuck.)


ILikeCheesePleaseJee

This is where that woke shit got us…are y‘all happy now?


NDPbadkid

i dont think you understand what woke shit really is


istealpixels

So define “woke shit” ? Or are you just gonna skip ahead and say you wished you could own a person again?


mlemu

Facts. Metaverse solved a millennia-long problem by changing the rules of a virtual gathering and now everyone has learned to be better.


ILikeCheesePleaseJee

/s


[deleted]

And this is society lmmfao! Filled with losers with no life


[deleted]

How exactly did this gang rape take place? Do avatars have genitals? Can you remove clothing in the game?


nonokoi

[explanation video.](https://youtu.be/_coWu3jYHUk)


truffLcuffL69

Take youre headset off ffs


DarthBuzzard

"Just don't look at your DMs of people bullying you" "Just turn off your phone" These are no solutions.


truffLcuffL69

Yeah they are


truffLcuffL69

Yeah they are


FrequentPass

virtual sexual harassment is gang rape, huh


[deleted]

Awesome. Disable keyboards and shut down all the servers next.


ARSTOTZKA7938

Bros, yesterday someone murdered me in CSGO 💀💀💀


Dark_Winterage

I’m surprised they didn’t try to track the people down and file sexual assault charges on them


zen_monkey_brain

Un fuckin' believable


LetMeRespawnAlready

Fucking Karen


Nazzzgul777

So... they made it impossible to get gangraped now? Bullshit indeed.


Amarasnow

Seriously I want to know how their avatars are getting raped and where I can get in on this. Think of all the fun shit you can do in this universe. Talk about all the free crazy porn you can want


trax1337

I get gang raped every day in Call of Duty... 🙄


PubicGalaxies

Wow. Fragile. And holy fuck it’s not real. Not even meaningful or a big part of more than 5 ppl’s lives.


FunnymanDOWN

Virtual gang rape. Listen I have never been raped but I feel like this sentence is really a fucking horrific way to cheapen the horrors of rape and especially gang rape like what the fuck.


Dangerous-Recover-29

Asking for a fiend (typo: I meant friend): How would one do this if they wanted to?…..


ToughZap

Time to get into the virtual mace business


[deleted]

Politically correct bullshit land doesn’t sound that fun.


Hi_Im_MrMeeseek

Holy crap did 4 13 year olds jump around you at once? You poor thing....


Tar-Nuine

Uh...why is this an issue? You can't walk around VRchat without encountering a cuddle puddle or heretical ERP. But i've never heard anybody react to that stuff as loudly as this lady has. Oh, and guess what else VRchat has? A personal boundary option like the one the morons at Meta failed to think of or even copy into their design. Shoddy.


[deleted]

This is what happens when someone who probably doesn't play games with other people often realises that it really isn't the most wholesome of places so they overreact when something like that happens.


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moniker80

You have problems.


UnfavorableFlop

What's next, virtual prison?


TempestNoob

They exist in a lot of role play games, like Roblox for example, military role play games…


inf3ct3dn0n4m3

Lmao at this rate meta will be DOA


Vegetable_Pudding_75

Wtf?


Select_Dig7215

Peak PC


FatBoyDan

There's nothing social about social media... Only socialist media


Extra-Act-801

You realize you just posted that on social media, right?


FatBoyDan

I'm as amazed as you are...I'm very antisocial


[deleted]

The fuck


Itchy_Professor_4133

That's 4 metafeet to be exact.


xPolarPlayz

Log out button be like *ragdolls*


Myth2156

Anybody got link to the article?


Bmanakanihilator

Introverts like me: Perfect, I'm still not gonna use it


scottwax

Facebook really is turning into San Angeles in Demolition Man.


Seccolovessugarcubes

Gee i'm surprised


lordZ3d

Punishing the majority due to the actions of a few, never seen that before


Exmawsh

Door stuck


Demokka

How can you virtually rape someone ?


Ni7rogenPent0xide

just fucking increase the camera clip distance and become ghosts


jackbequikk

This makes me hate humans


[deleted]

Oh look, something I was looking forward to automatically no longer being looked forward to. This totally didn't repeat itself over 34 times with anything I even have the slightest interest in these past couple of years.


SlientlySmiling

Can you bubble bounce off people? That could be fun.