Mark Zuckerberg has addressed the rumours of him having an 'underground bunker' beneath his $270 million (£200m) home in Hawaii.
The 40-year-old was forced to reveal the truth behind the space after he shared a video of his wife, Priscilla Chan, 'catching' him playing video games inside the so-called bunker.
The Facebook founder currently sits third on Forbes' billionaires list, behind Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, although he has been similarly hard hit in terms of finances following Donald Trump's unprecedented tariffs in the United States.
However, he still has an estimated net worth of $200 billion so he's not doing too badly.
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Given the rising political tensions across the world, it's easy to understand why the richest among us might want to use their millions, or billions in Zuckerberg's case, to protect themselves and their families with a sort of 'post-apocalyptic bunker'.
After all, it worked for the most part in the last World War, with many UK families having shelters of some sort, even if they weren't quite of the same scale as the billionaire's.
So it's easy to see why the 'memes' about Zuckerberg's 'underground bunker' got a little out of hand, and he's finally revealed the truth about it - though sadly, it's not as exciting as you might have hoped.
Speaking on comedian Theo Von's This Past Weekend podcast, the tech whiz revealed that the base in his Hawaii home is 'more of [an] underground storage situation'.
He said: "There's this whole meme about how people are saying I built this like bunker underground. It's not that big of a tunnel. It's sort of a tunnel that just goes to another building ... It's like having a little storm shelter underground."
It was only last month he was told that he could soon be forced to sell Instagram and WhatsApp after Meta acquired them in 2012 and 2014 respectively, so considering that and the other likely pressures that come with owning one of the world's biggest companies, it's easy to see why he might need a bit of down time playing video games in a basement.
Owning an underground bunker wouldn't be out of the question for someone like Zuckerberg, who has also been seen signing and dancing in one of Benson Boone's sparkly outfits, while other billionaires seem ready to escape Earth in the event of a nuclear war through their escapades in space.
Sadly, it turned out to be the much more mundane storage space, which makes you question how much stuff Zuck really has, given that he reportedly owns 10 properties.
Topics: Mark Zuckerberg, Meta, Social Media
James Moorhouse