I Tried Walmart's Terrifying Metaverse Experience 

"We just talked to your smartfridge and it told us you're ugly" is one of the most frightening statements I have ever heard.

danny looks like a military dad finally coming home to his children and trying to find a way to connect with them

Calling kids "young consumers" is what I expect the big bad robot from a science fiction book to call kids

as a Walmart employee, the amount of times I heard Noah schnapp advertising this game on the Walmart radio was insane

Walmart referring to children as Young Shoppers feels so dystopian it's actually hilarious

"you already have a full gallon of milk put the milk back!!" YOU DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH MILK I DRINK

Imagine your mom telling you she’s going to Walmart and then she just stands in the living room with a vr headset on, moving her hands as if she’s grabbing items and placing them in her cart.

Seeing Danny Gonzalez investigate Roblox is like seeing a wounded deer investigate a theme park. No matter what you happens you know he’s going to get hurt

I love that the whole point of the metaverse is to not interact with people by not being in a real Walmart, yet they made an employee talk to you constantly

The random person in the Roblox chat answering Danny's questions is the type of person that is the backbone of society.

The Walmart VR shopping experience very closely resembles a reoccurring nightmare I would have as a child of going shopping with my mom in a grocery store floating in nothingness with a vampire sales associate chasing us

Danny and his wife are gonna have a young shopper of their own soon. Congrats 🎉

I feel like corporations are forgetting that normal people DON’T want this virtual dystopia that they seem to think humanity is heading towards. We all actively don’t want that.

speaking of dystopian walmarts: all 3 of the walmarts in my town replaced ALL of their cashiers with self-checkout lines, the employees are literally only there to fulfill online pickup orders and if you try to talk to a single one of them they either look at you like YOU'RE the weird one for asking an employee where the yogurt is OR like they've been a ghost for 500 years and you're the first person who has ever been able to see them

I worked for Walmart, can confirm that these look JUST like their training videos. They're like from the 90's, super dystopian and depressing. The vibe of this vid is accurate.

his imitation of the hands being terrified made me laugh so hard for no reason

Young shoppers... the only phrase that could possibly make it more clear how they value people based solely upon how much of which products they buy would be calling them "Undeveloped Consumers" or some shit

"Refrigerator, Refrigerator" "Yes, Walmart?" "Do you have Milk Jug?" "No, Walmart" "Telling lies?" "No, Walmart" "Open your door" "Ha Ha Ha"

Fun fact: Almonds we eat are called Sweet almonds, being a type of almond genetically modified to be edible since normal almonds contain dangerous amounts of Cyanide, while Sweet almonds do not.

The monorail bit is so funny because that other guy was most likely a child and Danny just messed with him like it was nothing 😂

the most unrealistic part of this metaverse is the fact that their shelves are fully stocked and all the items are in the right place

When I was working at Walmart we weren't allowed to fight the customers, but I'm happy to hear the company is finally listening to the requests of its employees.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="445">7:25</a> had me dying laughing with the father staring at the shopping cart going thru the floor lmao

I was helping my sister study for her anthropology test (on monkeys and evolution etc.) and she mentioned bonobos (the monkeys)-so of course I immediately thought of *bonobos sweater blue* and it’s been stuck in my head ever since The only detail on the study guide about bonobos was “they’re always having sex” so do with that what you will

There is no way in my wildest dreams as a kid I would have imagined fast forwarding to 2022 and watching a video on a tiny computer in my hand with Danny declaring he doesn't want Walmart talking to his fridge behind his back and me realizing that's a valid concern that some people have to have in these weird times

Imagine working at Walmart HQ and they show you this horrible dystopian simulation that probably cost millions to make, and your boss is standing there smiling at you waiting for you to be like “I love it! So futuristic! People will shop at Walmart more now!” And you have to decide if it’s worth it to tell the truth

I wanna believe that Netflix was trying to find ways to keep Noah Schnapp busy so he didn't keep talking and were like "Just do this Walmart thing PLEASE"

After watching the video back, I have concluded that Danny gets the coins in walmart land from a badge that he earns from riding the monorail for the first time

i feel like that walmart vr experience could've been a real cool horror concept

Danny's continued hatred of smart fridges is inspiring. What it inspires, I wouldn't like to say.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1073">17:53</a> thats.... literally the easiest obby ive ever seen

I keep expecting the metaverse experience at the beginning to turn into a horror game and it just remains a serious corporate dystopia. Which is even scarier.

With his glasses, long buzzcut, and one color T shirt he looks like every 5 year old I have ever seen. This was probably the point but I’m just impressed that he managed to get it so accurate.

Danny playing roblox is like my grandpa googling "google" each time he wants to search something

Watching this after the noah schnapp controversy hits different

The look on Danny’s face when he found out he can’t dance in Walmart Land

The sound of fucking glass shattering when the wine gets tossed into the cart has me absolutely fucking geeking

I love how it "verifies" your age based on the age of your account but half of the children lie about their age, so Walmart is selling children alcohol

Game theory: Walmart made that video feel so dystopian so you'd rather go to a real Walmart instead

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="802">13:22</a> like 1 year ago the death sound i the volume changer sound was Oof, and now roblox changer it to the sound i sometimes Heard in my parents bedroom.

Danny and drew both doing drastically strange things with their hair so people can finally tell them apart

Danny purposely pissing off someone that’s very likely a kid is way too hilarious 😂

I would love to have a happy medium between irl Walmart and metaverse Walmart (I want to be alone in a Walmart with a self checkout)

Please don’t delete this video because of the Noah controversy it’s one of my favorites

I had a nightmare about a never ending walmart that stretched on endlessly and it still wasn't as mind-numbingly fucking terrifying as this

I really hope people start making horror games on this concept. Like it’s the perfect theme for a psychological horror dystopian game.

I‘m always amazed at how lame and pointless these metaverses are.

''Noah Schnapp is hosting a game in Walmart Land'' is an insane sentence

After briefly working in sales, I'm convinced they're from another planet. The people who make those "shopping experiences" think people want a person constantly talking to them and can't comprehend someone who wouldn't like that, even when you tell them directly. They 100% wanted that whole hologram guide thing irl

Watching Danny fail at one of the most easy obbies is hilarious to me.

Okay i lowkey wanna play this now. Also danny being so happy about beating a kid in an argument was actually hilarious.

If you go to Walmart virtually then you'll miss out on that delicious stale cigarette smell as you walk into a real Walmart, and that's really a touch of charm I can't let go of.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="905">15:05</a> I killed a man for this monorail ride. But, you know what they say, “THERE’S NO WRONG WAY TO PLAY!”

I love how there's not a button or anything at the top to play the Netflix trivia and you have to venture on a quest through Walmart Land instead to find Noah Schnapp and play Netflix trivia with him

That’s crazy that Walmart can advertise directly to children, without transparency, with impunity

I absolutely loved the part where the young shoppers said “It’s young shopp’in time” and then proceeded to viciously young shop all over the floor.

"I already feel kind of dystopian going to a regular walmart in the real world" as a walmart cashier this is so real

I have, embarassingly, played Roblox for the last 9 years and it's always funny to see people try it out for the first time because it unironically is really fucking confusing

Watching that dystopian walmart vr clip felt like getting a glimpse into a circle of purgatory. Like if you die at a grocery store, you get sent to this weird walmart limbo and are never allowed to leave, you just have to shop forever while your groceries disappear as you buy them and then you have to get more. So yeah thats gonna haunt my dreams now thanks

playing the obby in the background was the best way get me to not skip the ad. good job danny. express vpn give him an award

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="546">9:06</a> not me wearing Skullcandy headphones rn 💀

I was cracking up throughout the fake walkthrough. The cart and tv taking off to their new lives while we are left trapped in Walmart, truly dystopian

Watching Danny fail horribly at probably one of the easiest obbies I’ve ever seen is hilarious

That demo might be- and I say this with no exaggeration- the most dystopian thing I have ever seen

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="488">8:08</a> Wait wait... So Walmart and Meta are going to stalk children online, then blimps follow the parents around the store such that their kids complain them into dropping toys into the cart? I really hope they use hydrogen. 😂

Danny losing his mind over a Walmart game in Roblox with a buzz cut is something I never thought I would see in my lifetime💀

Agreed about the hovering assistant. Please just let me roam in the void by myself please and choose my own products. "A family size bag of peanut butter M&Ms? We don't have any record of you having a family." No no no. Danny's face at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="371">6:11</a> says it all.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="36">0:36</a> “let’s just say, daddy likey” is a horrible quote taken out of context 💀

That one side of Danny's chair headrest poking out behind him towards the end of the video is consistently hilarious to me and I don't know why.

Noah is such a good actor, he managed to read lines for Walmartland with a straight face

Oh wow! As a British child I can finally experience the American shopping experience! I bet Walmart will 100% be looking like this in real life, how cool!

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1338">22:18</a> "he didn't even look like a roblox character" idk man he's got a pretty square jaw he's doing his best

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1115">18:35</a> i love how the timed chat is just roblox kids bullying danny for being bad at the obby

Danny's chat at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1045">17:25</a> "that seems like a huge oversight on walmarts part. I'm tanking their stock price for this" is highly good and should be recognized.

I always get the names metaverse and omegaverse mixed up. I was genuinely expecting an omegaverse Walmart video.

I will never get over the fact Danny calls himself daddy it’s too funny

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="180">3:00</a> It's a lot easier to compulsively shop when you have a digital Professor Umbridge guilt you into it. If you're anything like me, you'll add a bunch of things to your cart and then CLOSE the window. No more, they say! Let's go shopping!

I am at school for Fashion Design, and we all have to take a course where each week we write a short paper about contemporary designers/brands that belong to whatever that week’s topic is. (accessibility, bridal, sustainability, couture, etc.) One week the topic was “Metaverse/NFTs”. Every other sentence of research had me needing a lie-down. To sum up, I was just sitting there when my roommate, also a design major, cried out in grief “GUCCI TOWN?!?” That’s right folks, Walmartland is small pebbles.

Remember when you were a kid staring into a dark closet or room, and you would feel a primal, yet indescribable feeling of discomfort and fear? That's what I feel when watching and learning about Walmart Land.

I know this is like almost a year late, but I REALLY want to see Danny play more Roblox. This gave me joy.

“I never want my smart fridge snitching on me to Walmart” -Danny Gonzalez 2023

That thing about the smartfridge and already having a gallon of milk just absolutely slays me. This is in the _metaverse_ and you're not actually _at_ Walmart, if you're wondering whether you already have milk you can just take the headset off and _look in the fridge yourself_ to find out! Who the hell needs their smart devices to tell them what's going on in their house when they're already _in_ the house? Am I supposed to never take my headset off? Do I just live in the metaverse now and have trusted family members or neighbors feed me the food I order from Walmart while I spend 100% of my time shopping online? Do they really think this meta-Walmart is so goshdamn engaging that I'd rather have a digital assistant log into my fridge to tell me about my milk situation when I could just pause the program and stretch my legs for a minute by going to check? I've heard of a solution in search of a problem before, but this is a new one on me: a non-solution in search of a non-problem.

I actually audibly laughed, out loud, in the young shopper birth scene when it cut to the father staring at his hands as the cart decends into walmart hell.

Danny is that one kid that randomly gets a buzz cut 😂😂😂😂

Ah yes, rather than checking your fridge we need a remotely accessed fridge inventory that walmart can see at all times. That would never go wrong! cough cough, the amazon incident, cough cough

In all the trouble and grief, the walmart metaverse is what i needed

its so hilarious to me how danny manually searched for the game instead of just searching up the name

Walmart thinking that VR shopping would look more like physical shopping instead of something completely different like a digital catalog reminds me of people in the past thinking that “the future of mobility” will be a metal horse pulling a carriage, instead of a “car”.

Danny has his own little shopper on the way 😊

The fridge knowing what you have seems like a plot point I'd expect in a murder novel, like the killer has to store the body but needs to find a vintage fridge bc the modern ones will alert the police 😭

I work with the blind and visually impaired and I can see how the “assistant shopper” could be helpful if it identified items, disclosed prices, and provided info on what was included in each aisle. But it doesn’t look like that was their market or considered when they did the creepy commercial 😂

I just got jumpscared by bald Danny

Danny having the universal experience of raging at a roblox obby

I love Danny's impeccable ability to drop "daddy" in seemingly every video he uploads

As a Roblox veteran watching him struggle to figure it out is hilarious

I’m sorry but “verch” is the funniest thing I’ve heard all day

He’s bald! He’s bald and he’s torturing people who have hair!

How did they manage to make Walmart feel more hellish than it already is

This was the first Danny video I ever watched, and I come back to it every once in a while for some nostalgia.

It’s especially dystopian because they’re like “here let the robot deliver it to your car!” And show you a fake drone delivering it to your car while in real life, a struggling, overworked, single parent is lugging it out to the car