Zuckerberg Coldly Explains To Facebook Staff They Are Now To Be Known As ‘Metamates’

In an all-hands meeting at Meta “explaining the company’s updated values,” Mark Zuckerberg says employees are not supposed to “nice ourselves to death,” adding that they are now to be known as “Metamates.”

According to the Daily Beast, citing long-time executive Andrew Bosworth, “the term was coined by the cognitive scientist Douglas Hofstadter and is a play on the naval-inspired slogan used at Instagram: ‘ship, shipmates, self.'”