--- title: "Mark Zuckerberg’s New and Improved Metaverse Avatar Still Looks Like Crap" description: "Meta-formerly-Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has unveiled his new avatar for the company's bespoke Metaverse — and it still looks like total crap." date: "2022-10-13" modified: "2022-10-13" authors: - name: "Noor Al-Sibai" job_title: "Senior Staff Writer" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/nooralsibai" url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/mark-zuckerberg-metaverse-avatar-legs" categories: - "Future Society" - "Metaverse" - "Virtual Reality" tags: - "facebook" - "mark zuckerberg" - "metaverse" - "the digest" --- # Mark Zuckerberg’s New and Improved Metaverse Avatar Still Looks Like Crap ![Meta-formerly-Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has unveiled his new avatar for the company's bespoke Metaverse — and it still looks like total crap.]() *\Image: Meta\* ## Crap-tastic Meta-formerly-Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has unveiled his new avatar for the company's bespoke Metaverse — and unfortunately for him, it still looks like total crap. During the company's [annual virtual reality conference](), Zuckerberg unveiled his updated avatar — and let's just say it still looks like something out of a video game from decades ago. https://twitter.com/YokaiRiderVT/status/1579918628061065217 To be fair, his avatar [*does* have legs now](), which isn't exactly setting the bar very high. The [creepy, legless avatars]() have garnered the company plenty of mockery online, which, according to [the *New York Times*](), "frustrated" Zuckerberg so much that he had his new bipedal avatar fast-tracked. ## Money Walks Despite reportedly [spending $10 billion]() over the last year to flesh out its take on the metaverse, Meta still doesn't have much to show as far as its Horizon Worlds avatars are concerned. The newly-legged avatars still look like awkward video game characters from eons ago — and crappy ones at that, as many netizens have pointed out since the announcement. https://twitter.com/photos_floues/status/1580508580461305857 "It's really funny that each time the internet bullies Zuckerberg over his avatar he rebuilds his metaverse from the ground up just to make a new avatar only to get bullied again," [one user tweeted](). Another [went further](), saying that it's hilarious that the company spent so much "solely on trying to make Zuckerberg’s avatar not look like he deserves a metaswirlie." Jokes aside, this latest update to the Facebook Metaverse debacle is an all-too-salient reminder of how far a tech billionaire like Zuckerberg will go — and how much he will spend — to get what he wants, despite all of the mockery. **More Meta:** *[Top Facebook Consultant Admits that the Metaverse is Absolutely Terrible]()* ## Author At Futurism, I've often been drawn to unpacking the narratives that underlie technological, scientific and medical progress, with a special interest in areas of conflict and ambiguity that end up setting agendas and steering the fates of both elites and the hoi polloi. I'm a committed generalist, but I often find myself returning to work involving NASA and the private space sector, the effects of AI on media and society, and the mechanics of the pharmaceutical industry, with a specific focus on the spread of GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy. Prior to Futurism, I worked for publications ranging from Media Matters and Truthdig to Raw Story and Bustle. I'm also the author of "Myspace Scene Queens," a 2024 title in Instar Books' acclaimed "Remember the Internet" series. My work at Futurism has been cited by outlets including the New Yorker, Slate, Nieman Lab, the Verge, the MIT Technology Review, the Sunday Times, and the Daily Beast. I grew up in North Carolina, attended the University of North Carolina at Asheville, and now live in Brooklyn, New York. In my free time, I'm an avid reader and music fan; you can probably find me at a local poetry reading, concert, underground rave, or DJ set. I'm the proud parent of an ineffable orange cat named Mee-Mow. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()