‘Dead and depressing’: Meta staff vent about AI and layoffs on Blind
Culture Index
Score Breakdown
Relevance
14/25
Freshness
8/25
Authority
25/20
Brand Signal
10/15
Depth
8/15
5-Axis Cultural Radar
After Meta announced it would lay off 10% of its workforce next month to offset AI spending, employees swarmed to Blind—an anonymous online workplace forum—to get a few things off their chests. According to a report by Blind provided to Fast Company , posts containing negative sentiment about AI at Meta have grown to 83% since late 2025—that’s a roughly 300% jump since 2024, when just 20% of posts
