EU throws party in €387K metaverse – and hardly anyone turns up

&gt; A spokesperson for the Commission told Devex that the promotional post’s purpose was to &quot;increase awareness of what the EU does on the world stage&quot; among 18-to-35 year olds found &quot;primarily on TikTok and Instagram&quot;<p>Huh. If that&#x27;s the goal, wouldn&#x27;t investing into TikTok and Instagram content make much more sense?

The goal of reaching out to young people who don&#x27;t care about politics is great, but it&#x27;s a shame the organizers have fallen for building a &quot;Metaverse&quot; thing without apparently validating whether anyone cares about the Metaverse.<p>This meeting could have been an email -&gt; this metaverse gala could have been a vrchat.

Time to investigate<p>- who came up with that idea<p>- what partner got selected<p>- who lobbied<p>- what technologies did they use<p>- what cloud platform did they choose<p>I remember about that news last year, but forgot about it, thanks for remind us about it

These people are complete idiots. They should have run a Fortnite event instead.<p>Complete idiots playing with our tax monies.

Hey EU please use SecondLife, i would love to see FlintenUschi in Heels, Angelwings, lots of Lindens and some sexy latex lingerie. That could even attract some 40-80 y&#x2F;o, maybe the buddy&#x27;s from McKinsey can come too...you know the party animals per-se.

I put on my robe and party hat...

Why would they expect that investing in facebook would be a good idea?