> Meta what?

Metaverse. Zuckerberg’s obsession with the concept (and that being the origin of the chosen name) is well documented.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_Platforms#2021:_Rebrand_a...

> Based on Facebook's PR campaign, the name change reflects the company's shifting long term focus of building the metaverse, a digital extension of the physical world by social media, virtual reality and augmented reality features.

Meta-everything i think was the point. They want to be the extra layer on top of literally everything that exists.

That's the whole point. Facebook was so toxic they needed to dump the branding

Related: https://xkcd.com/917/

even more hilarious is how society/developers just accept these new names and use them (meta, x) rather than simply resisting and continuing to call them Facebook, or Twitter. It's like they've been collectively brainwashed into thinking you can deadname a corporation and should feel bad about it.