What is true is that the amount of time people spend finessing their fictional online persona vs their boring reality is dramatically shifting, particularly for younger generations.
It's now common for some to use stylized/beautified cartoon 'avatars' in a professional context. People communicate using contrived and performative message board speak with coworkers. Even the 'influencers' spend a large chunk of their life editing and constructing an unrecognisable version of themselves.
If you meet some of these people in real life it's obvious why they do so - reality is too dull, too expensive in time and effort to find a way of standing out from the crowd. Online you can pretend to be whatever you want to be. I see this trend continuing.
I have no idea what's going to happen, but computers used to be a thing for "nerds", now everybody uses them every day.
The nerd move on to nerd out the next big things. Nerds by definition find a niche to stand out and life goes on...
People that buy Louis Vuitton are going to shell out for NFT metaverse skins and wear dorky headsets.
That totally tracks.