Halal Metaverse Launches, Crashes After Gender Avatars Mix

In an effort to bring Islamic values into the digital realm, Iran's Ministry of Virtue launched the Halal Metaverse�only for it to crash within minutes when a male avatar waved at a female one. Developers insisted the interaction was "accidental pixel overlap," but clerics declared a virtual scandal. Ayatollah Khomeini's archived sermons were uploaded into the metaverse as code, but even they couldn't stop the chaos once someone spawned a digital camel in a mixed-gender prayer room.