In a recent interview with Punk6529, Garga, co-founder of Bored Ape Yacht Club, shared his thoughts on the metaverse, saying that Facebook is more focused on hardware, while Yuga Labs (BAYC's parent company) is more focused on social spaces. Garga explained, "Our vision for the metaverse is a space for people to engage socially, and we want to spend our time in the digital space. I think that when we have a metaverse space that we can embrace ...... a lot of potential and experience opens up to build the metaverse on the blockchain and it's inherently better to do that and that's where Yuga Labs can compete with other giants." In addition, Garga revealed that the Otherside metaverse "Persistent World" will arrive in 2023, but it will be a long-lasting process with many experiences, but does not expect Otherside to be "like any Web2 game".