Was the Viral Metaverse Rave Fun? An Investigation

On Thursday morning, Alex Moss, a member of the Mutant Ape Yacht Club and CTO of an NFT company, tweeted a video from a "live rave happening right now in Decentraland." 

"This is the metaverse," he said. The video quickly went viral because it shows a bunch of avatars aimlessly shuffling and standing around doing nothing on a "dance floor"—a bleak view of fun in the so-called metaverse.

As happens anytime anything metaverse-related goes viral, people began asking how this was any better than (or stating that it is obviously worse than) VRChat, Second Life, Fortnite, or any other video game. "Second Life" and "Metaverse" began trending on Twitter. Crypto enthusiasts tweeted that they had "triggered the normies" who were relentlessly dunking on this rave and the metaverse. 

I decided to check out the party, called "THE LIGHTBULB MAN HATEFUCK METARAVE," myself. The rave was thrown by The Lightbulb Man, an upcoming NFT drop by Bjarne Melgaard, an established and quite good Norwegian artist who states that "All Lightbulb Man works are rare. But like the da Vincis, Warhols, and Munchs on the traditional art market, some pieces will be rarer than others."

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