Evernote Founder Phil Libin, who grew up in now-defunct Soviet Union, in a podcast referred to the metaverse as "spectacularly stupid" and compared the hype around it to communist propaganda. "I was told as a...kid repeatedly: 'Communism doesn't exist yet...We're building towards it'," he explained. "So I don't want to hear 'Oh yeah, metaverse doesn't exist yet...It's coming,'" he added.