Linden Institute says "Spicy Adult-Friendly Bedroom Secrets" Coming to Second Life in 2024. It’s a sign of changing times!

A short paragraph from Linden Lab "year under review" The 2023 wrap-up and 2024 Second Life preview were so amazing that I had to read them a second time.

Second Life will turn 21 in 2024. To celebrate, we’re turning our attention to the spicier side of Second Life with a bold and innovative new adult-friendly initiative. Something incredibly surprising is coming soon… We’ll be debunking this mystery scheme and sharing more bedroom secrets soon… So stay tuned!

spicy! This brief content probably won’t elicit a shrug from most people, but it’s quite a milestone.

For the first two decades of Second Life, Linden Lab had a difficult relationship with adult content in the virtual world. In other words, we strive to enable our user community to create consensual sexual simulations that adults want to enjoy with each other. also Attempting to downplay that content to avoid Second Life being further branded/pigeoned. "the strange world of sex" Unattractive to external brands/organizations. (Not to mention most consumers who don’t like those cheerful pixels that immediately ping their faces.)

And now… Linden Lab has just arrived and is bringing us their spicy bedroom secrets as official content!

It’s really a huge change. Considering the vast, graphic, and often biologically impossible variety of user-generated sexual content that already exists in Second Life; is It’s kind of like Netflix uploading R-rated movies to Pornhub, but that’s okay.

The fact that this is happening now probably has nothing to do with Linden Lab as a company, but rather reflects the extent to which global pop culture has changed over the past few decades.

In 2006, one Linden Lab executive took a candid stance. fired 30% of Second Life’s user-generated content at the conference "naughty".

It may seem like a dramatic overreaction (and to some extent it was), but at the time, many media outlets were publishing downright scandalous articles about naked avatars with attachable genitals bumping and banging against each other. It was a clash of simple, false assumptions. Second Life "It’s just a game"And the game "just for kids", hence the rage! However, this was a world where Linden Lab was trying to launch a mainstream product.

But my lord, in 2023, in our time, "Wap" And has OnlyFans commercialized spicy food? Pixel sex looks pretty weird.

Rather, Linden Lab is actually trying to catch up here. IMVU has had adults-only access passes for several years. Even Roblox’s CEO promised an adults-only dating app experience a few months ago. Considering the competition in the market and the current difficulty in enjoying UGC sexual content in Second Life (installing a digital penis on your avatar is similar to trying to edit a 3D Maya graphics file), it makes sense for the company to provide a plug. . -and-play option.

Putting all that aside, pixel sex still isn’t what it is. grow As the user base of the Metaverse platform (although still a passionate if niche activity) becomes more and more accepting of social conventions around online sex, this is probably an option that should be offered on a thriving Metaverse platform.

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