‘GTA V’ lets players kill Zuckerberg stand-in
Grand Theft Auto players once had to content themselves with kil𝕴ling cops and hookers — now they can kill Mark Zuckerberg, t🌼oo.
The fifth edition of the notorious video game bloodfest — which rak൩ed in $800 million in sales since its release Tuesday — features a mission in 𝔍which gamers hunt down and blow the head off of a character clearly inspired by the Facebook founder.
As “GTA V’s” long storyl✨ine progresses, players are tasked with becoming assassins who must take out “Jay Norris” the found♔er of a fictional social network called “Lifeinvader.”
The scenario is full of jabs at the real Facebook and i✤ts nerdy billionaire creator.
Players must first don a disguise — sleeveless vest, cargo𓂃 shorts and flip flops — to sneak into “Lifeinvader” headquaters, where they walk by parodies of the cheesy motivational posters the real Zuckerberg likes to keep on the walls.
Players are then asked to wait in a beanbag chair, bef🍎ore completing a mini-game and placing a bom🍨b inside a prototype phone that the Norris/Zuckerberg character is about to debut at a tech conference.
The coup de gras comes as the fictional Facebook founder is seen promoting the mobile device on TV, and bragging abo🀅ut how it will complete his dream of information domination.
“This company has come a long way since we started it in my parents’ pool-house in East Carroway,” the Norris/Zuckerberg characte⭕r says. “Today, you’re about to witness a new phase: full on, weapons grade, red alert, world domination🌟!
“We have pu🌼t a billion peoples’ private data in the public domain ꦬand we have milked every penny we could in the process.”
Moments l💙ater, playe𒀰rs complete their crime by calling the booby-trapped phone, which goes off as Zuckerberg holds it to his head.
In typical, gory, GTA♈ style, the game shows the CEO’s headless body bleeding on the floor.
Facebook did not return a request for comment about whether Zuckerberg has seen his video game doppelga𝓀nger’s death.