Hacker Trends › “metaverse” trend
“Metaverse” was mentioned 10,201 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in Oct 2021 with 1,048 that month.
Every month from 2007 to 2026, counting how often “metaverse” appears in Hacker News stories and comments. Each point is a live date-histogram over ~45M items, computed with Upstash Redis Search.
The word metaverse appears from 2007 but surged after Facebook’s rebrand to Meta. The curve peaks in October 2021 with 1,048 mentions, and the lifetime total is 10,201 mentions, heavily concentrated in that period.
Discussion was overwhelmingly skeptical: “The metaverse is bullshit,” arguments that it already exists as Minecraft or simply the internet, comparisons to the Second Life boom, and a flagged YC-backed metaverse game. After 2021 the topic faded.
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