It is stated at one point by some CIA guy that North Korea was able to avoid the zombie outbreak by systematically removing the teeth of all of its residence in less than 24 hours. The reasoning being that if nobody had teeth then the virus couldn’t spread because nobody could bite anyone. He states that it was “the greatest feat of social engineering ever achieved”. Like I get this is a fictitious plot but they can’t even avoid making up the most utterly deranged bullshit lmao.
Ready Player One is to scifi fiction what isekai "she looks 9 years old but is actually 900 years old" waifu creepiness is to anime/manga. It's lazy yet horrifying trash, but it makes lots of money because it panders to a paying audience and gives it exactly what it wants.
This to a T, it's also the culmination of western nostalgia drip feeding into the general populace like this modern generations version of fucking Soma