i remember back in the day when i got like a random group of 40 dudes to all have the same space marine avatar and break into Ugandan knuckles servers screaming stupid warhammer quotes... now its just a place for sad people
i somehow caused a raid on mcdonalds where i had left my avatar cloning on while running around in a fnaf map as fnaf movie william afton, and a shit ton of people cloned it and eventually we raided mcdonalds and later tried watching the fnaf movie
What I find fascinating is that there is a vr chat accent. Plenty of boys try to force a monotone "corpse husband" voice, while the girls try do an ariana grande impression
I’d say, the best thing I did in vrchat, was give a kid the dad he never had, but wanted, the play baseball with your son type of dad. One day he broke down with tears of joy telling me I was a better dad than his own. knowing I changed a kid’s life forever that day, I ugly cried, the good kind.
Great video man, you speak for a lot of us who stopped trying, also meant the world to hear you mention my name along with such influential people considering i always saw them as on a level above myself
@@cardndmch Aw hell naw, you aint throwing me in with them. I've picked female characters in rpg games like fallout before just to play a different character archetype. That's VERY different than going into a social chatting game and presenting yourself as a female to catfish. That's a whole other mental illness blud.
“Erp has started seeping into games like roblox” as a veteran former roblox child… it’s been a problem for a long time, to the point where dedicated ERP games would be on the roblox homepage, truly the doom of humanity
@@DimetryBI have a friend who is cool but every time he got me on he just looked at a mirror and invited people to do it with. Kinda creepy (and boring).
@@robertsears8323That's not true. But that can be said about most things, really. Even if the bad isn't that noticeable (but in this case, VRC's bad is pretty prominent).
“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.” ― Mahatma Gandhi
Being married and on vrchat then saying so everyone around you “yeah my wife is just listening to me be annoying” really changed the way people spoke to me
Honestly, made my time wayyyyyy better just casually dropping I'm in a relationship lol. It's kinda fun dropping my girlfriends near cause then they try involve her too and talk to her. Its kinda nice lmao.
Old vrchat was so much fun with full lobbies of people just messing around and having stupid fun. Now, it is super awkward to play because most people don't even socialize in it anymore. You can join a full lobby but nothing is actually happening. Having and using fullbody should be epic and amazing but people do even less socializing.
VRChat is the worst... when you're playing solely for public servers. When you have trustworthy friends and worlds that aren't just mirrors and low framerates, you get a worthy experience.
Actually facts. Once you get out of publics and establish a friend group that isn't highschool drama/sad people its a great experience once in awhile but I admit that's a lot of steps and effort.
@@firestalker11 i found a nice group of friends even before getting to know vrchat (they made me be interested in the first place), so i guess i'm some lucky cookie xD so when we hang out it's most likely in friends+ instances and playing funny games or chilling around a campfire (they all live far away from me)
An old online friend of mine literally became a mirror dweller, got addicted to VR chat, sleeps, eats, and has it on day and night. Only hangs out with kids when they're way older, and overall even started dating some of them from what I heard from others. I dropped them awhile back after they ignored me, but I honestly regret introducing them to the game. I just wanted to do some murder mystery :"L
If you're a real one you're going to help him get off of it, just give him a good classic Sonic game and he'll forget about vrchat like it never existed
@@-originalLemon- I've tried multiple times before we split. Said maybe we should branch to other things so we could relate more. Gave them time to cope, gave them cards even that I made personally, would try and get my friends to help them be motivated. They're a person who doesn't want to change and will then blame it on everyone else.
Met someone on vrc yesterday that's the same age as me except she was dating a 22 year old, a 22 year old that threatened to rape her. I advised her to file a report, as any sane human being should. She protested and protected his actions, what a world we live in. For reference she turned 18 two week ago, while they've been "Friends" for way longer. Truly insane people.
yknow this is the kinda thing about "a lot of hours in the worst games". like i say gta online is just kinda bad, even if i have 2700 hours on the game total. we with a lot of hours can say full well how bad something is cause we have a lot of experience on it, or maybe because they by nature tend to be good hangout games, so there's no real reason to stop unless you wanna like explore your library or afford more. so yeah, a lot of hours but saying its bad means you can say it with more certainty than someone with like 10 hours.
Welcome to vrchat, we're insane, depressed, alcoholics, creeps or just casual people, dont trust anyone for who they say they are and keep all convos in the ride at all times.
A lost a friend because of this game, I played VRChat for leisure fun to mess with people. I introduced him into this game and he spiraled out of control while he played on his own time to the point where he lived on this game and essentially got groomed at 16 and ended up with a ERP cult and a week in was in a 'relationship' with someone years older than him in the game. Since then bro racked up 3k hours from living on this game and essentially sleeping with his VR headset on too. Shits sad and I was just pushed aside. It was 8 years I was friends with this guy and suddenly I'm just not existing. Gotta admit it's prolly my fault but it is what it is, never introducing anyone else in my circle about this game. Actually met one of his new 'friends' in-game once and sounded awfully pedo-like tone in his voice, my gut seriously was telling me to stay away. All they talked about was erotic garbage to where it was nauseating. This place is dangerous for what it is and wish I could go back before the Quests and Covid days. The fact kids are infecting this game at such an alarming rate is disgusting and VRChat devs just let it happen. I like coming back to this game just for chatting and meeting people, play some of the mini-games it has to offer. But damn, most of the people on this platform are sad to deal with. Not much better than Discord honestly.
I know how you feel. I have a childhood friend who I’ve been friends with for 9 years and I introduced them to vr and vrchat was one of those games. Now all he does is play vrchat and stopped talking to me when I wanted to help him get his life together.
YT is a social platform, and because it enforces rules that don't allow for UTTERLY degenerate behaviour, it's still going just fine VRC's problem is moderation. It's impossible to moderate consistently. Let's not pretend that VRC's social culture is just like any other social platform because it isn't. It's full of depraved weirdos and young social outcasts who get preyed on. That describes 1/3 of its whole userbase You can't really say the same about other social platforms that are properly moderated. I've seen men in their 20s dare children as young as 14 to drink alcohol, out in a public room. if you posted the same conversation publicly on Twitter or FB or YT or most social spaces with proper moderation, you'd get dogpiled.
My irl friend got a vr headset and started playing this, he’s never been the same since that day. Today he gets 23 hours per day average on vr chat. I WISH I was joking :( he doesn’t show up to events, he doesn’t want to hang out anymore. All he does is play vrchat. It’s genuinely sad.
@@brewsmusicso ur saying ur friend only gets 1 hour of interaction/entertainment outside of vrchat?? That’s really unhealthy sounds like he’s into deep and is brain rotting help him before it’s really too late
@@plyinglocket553 It IS too late, he has gotten himself into a vrchat relationship, its been like 3 months and theyve already broken up and gotten together like 3 times. He even told me that he wants to marry her... He's long gone bruh
I love VRC and here's all I have to say: Virtually every problem outlined in this video is 1000% accurate, which is why I very rarely go to public worlds. I have a close-knit group of friends I trust and we hop on every once in a while to meet up in a cool new world and play games. I absolutely love spending time in VRC but NOT interacting with the vast majority of the community. Don't let this vid dissuade you, there are so many incredible places to see and people to meet, just have to find the diamonds in the rough and you'll have amazing experiences
It's crazy how people were proud of having 10,000+ hours on VRC and shaming me for only reaching my first 2,000 hours after having played on and off since 2018. 💀
@@ThePimpinator they said in the comment "after having played on and off since 2018", we can probably safely say that alot of the chunk OF that time was during the 2020 pandemic, which makes sense, so yes they probably do have a life, 2k hours CAN be alot but in this context it really isn't
I still think back to this time someone walked up to me and asked if I can say "Absolutely" and now I'm guessing there's a video of me out there enthusiastically agreeing to some fucked up shit.
VRchat is amazing when you dont use it to make friends, but rather hang out with people you already know. Every saturday night is basically a 3-4 hour vrchat session of exploring interesting worlds, watching a movie, and drinking of course. Thank god for private lobbies
Yeah. Not everybody has the luxury of having friends in their older ages. I’m 23 and have nobody , no real friends who arethere for me. That’s why I feel VRchat would be good for me. Antisocial, introvert
I've been a member of my local dubstep/rave community ever since i was 16 in real life; i am now 23. When i started playing vrchat heavily during covid i tried to find that scene in VrChat because i just wanted friends that liked dubstep too. What I found was the ultimate form of cancer. These people didnt care about the music at all, these are real producers/artists performing playing their music and most of these people didnt give af about the music. They just wanted to watch themselves dance in their overally sexual avatars or attention and to say they went to a "Rave" (the dubstep scene has very certain ways we dance to our type of music so it was very obvious when someone wasn't a real fan). As someone whos been going to raves for years I do dress half naked in real life as its part of the fashion and its VERY hot at those events.. and i never had the need to wear an overally sexualized female anime character. The desperation for male attention in this game is ridiculous when most of the people in this game are 4s on a good day. They aren't used to attention in real life so they get it in this game and become addicted. Not that im any better than these people but i understand what im seeing. If anything is the utter disrespect for the dubstep community that people indulge in that pisses me off the most.
"They aren't used to attention in real life so they get it in this game and become addicted." THIS. This is exactly what has me hooked. I even act in ways I otherwise wouldn't so I can get just a bit more of it. Its horrible, but it is what having no friends for years in real life does to a person, I guess. It started out as something to help with my lack of a social life, though now, nearing 2.5k hours, I feel its begun to _replace_ it rather than substitute it.
@JagiUGG I like your statement I feel like that's very true for me as well "its begun replace it rather than substitute it.". Honestly its a very consuming environment everyone acts that way so you become like that too and honestly at least you can recognize but there are many that can't. I was hooked the same way but I've realized most of my "friends" on VrChat now I don't even remember most of their names. Most of my friends are online but I usually manage to turn those these online friendships into real life friendships and I find that I get so much dopamine from hanging out with friends in real life much more than I ever did on VrChat. Of course I still hang out with my friends on discord and play games but I try to stray away from toxic environments such as huge discord servers and VrChat; its more of a genuine experience.. but for a long time I never really had that experience so I didn't even know what that was like .(also I feel like VrChat has the vibe of a huge discord server where people have alot of ego and there are alot of attention-seeking people they are pretty similar to me in that sense).
@@womanofficialx Haven't really hung out properly with anyone in years so I cant really remember what its like. I have no irl friends. I do try to get to know the people on VRC to the best of my ability. Always get their Discord as soon as its okay to do so, ask about them, talk to them, I try my best to remember all the details including birthdays and names.. I just try and make it work, I guess
I had a phase with Vrchat, it was when I started working overnight so I figured it would be nice to have somewhere to socialize (P.s it was also when squid game came out so I played the vrc version of it so much) For a long time it was a great place, I had a ton of fun with people and made so many unique friends. I was so into it I made an entire soundboard of postal dude lines and would manage to have full conversations as him. But after awhile all the people I knew got outed for being horrible peeps, and eventually I just could not find chill people. Either everyone was overtly sexual, narcissistic or just depressing to be around :/ so I stopped playing, it’s a shame cause I think the game could be neat but it’s full of rough people
Normal people play it from time to time if at all, addicted no-lifers are on 24/7 and produce the majority of its content. All virtual spaces that allow pornographic content (and even some that don't) inevitably turn out this way, because the stable people play less, the unstable people play more, and eventually the unstable ones drive away the stable ones with their obscenity.
@@KnoxEmDownwell said, it’s the people with the most free time that tend to be the worst kinds of people to be around on things like this. If VR chat had been a thing when I was a cringy socially inept 16 yo I probably would’ve lived on this fucking game. Now as a (somewhat) more mature adult I still think it looks fun, but I’d never find the time to play it. Games like this eliminate for insufferable social rejects in a way.
@@CrazyLikeUhFox fr dude, 16 yo me would've loved this, but I have to be in a specific mood to enjoy Vrchat. Sometimes I get a group of chill people for a couple hours, its great. But I can go weeks with hopping in for 15 minutes and leaving cause everyone's fucking insane.
my friend who was around 14-15 played vr chat with a headset and according to him people just immediately got too close and other stuff to him and made him uncomfortable so yeah, its certainly a game.
Usually tell anyone who's not 18 to step off the game, while I never experienced any creeps myself, I know they exist and would rather that not to happen to someone.
@@thedogatemyname9982 to be entirely fair to him, if you are a 14 year old and fully grown adults immediately get close and cuddly with potentially sexually themed avatars or comments... Yeah, that's fkn weird, game or not. Vrchat isn't like someone standing next to you in wow, because the point of view is literally made to make you feel fully immersed, and people can move like... People. Including some weird shit.
as a vrchat player one of my first experiences was seeing a naked man chase a child around while his friends egged him on honestly felt horrible to see especially since i couldnt do much but just report him and block him so yeah it can be pretty bad
The game is filled with groomers. I only played it for a little bit but one time some guy kept trying to tell me I might be gay and I should flirt with him. Told him to f off and haven't played since. Now imagine these types of people doing this to minors
I've went through the same experience too. There's too many people in their echo chambers that play this game. And these narcissistic idiots is warping the culture of the game making no incentive to play it to meet new people.
As an avatar creator, this is why I have no motivation to create avatars anymore. (edit) Honestly the only reason I even play anymore is cuz a friend of mine has been growing a pretty neat VR exploration community alongside his UA-cam audience, and it's the only bastion of hope left for me in this game.
One day i just wanted to have goofy fun with a friend of mine in VRchat. Now i lost him to a femboi who he spends more time with than with me or our friends irl.
i can say it before even watching the video 1. the little kids knowing things they shouldnt know at the age of 4 2. the toxic community quite literally making me want to kms 3. the 13-30 year old couples (huge age gap) 4. the fact that most popular games dont have ANYTHING to do (its just a mirror) It hurts me desperatly
Wait.... So making an avatar private doesn't even work? That's what I'm getting from the "you worked several painful hours on an avatar? Too bad, mine now." part.
Ripping is truly a mess. Even noobs without any skills can just rip an avatar within 15 minutes, basically Unity-ready. Shortly said - making your avatar private makes it impossible for others to use, but ripping is basically just stealing the files. It used to be worse, as Ripperstore was still a thing. Ripperstore even made some kind of tournament, who does rip the most avatars within a certain time. Nowadays Ripperstore only has the forum left, which isn't that bad.
@@fabianremie9888 Unless your avatar isn't a default booth model, no. The moment you enter a lobby with people, there is a risk of people ripping it. But that's a given. Most people are too lazy though, so you should ve fine. Making it private prevents most people from using it.
Ngl fucking with people (not like that) in vrchat helped my depression alot and helped me get used to talking about ridiculous stuff without the fear of anything being remembered by people I know and it helped give me a perspective of other parts of the world
vrchat has some nastly people in it, but it's also an amazing way to express your identity if you don't have the opportunity to at home, also you can hang out with friends if for example its raining outside but you still wanna chill together, i used to do that quite a lot
I was an avatar creator on VRChat for 3 years and I have a bit to talk about ^^ I agree with much of what was said about VRChat in this video. From my experience optimization and creation was a major pain, there would often be people coming to me about their custom avatar being stolen/force cloned, and I'd get some very weird commissions that go outside of my comfort zone. I would say there are a lot of degenerates but also some really good people on the platform depending on which worlds you visit and what kind of communities stay around them. Recommendations for new peeps: Keep your security settings high because crashers are very popular but can be stopped just by having good security settings. be mindful of the places you visit and think about the people you might meet there, obviously if you go in a not safe world you're gonna meet not safe people. If you get a custom avatar, be careful about giving your account details out because it could be a scam! Check to make sure they've made avatars for other people and possibly get in contact with a few people who have worked with them for their feedback. If you don't want to give out your account details for direct upload, ask if they can make it cloneable from theirs.
Good to know :) I used to suggest to my gf to go play VR chat and have fun but since those days it's completely devolved into something pretty worrying and unsafe. Out of curiosity, what were your commission rates for each kind of avatar service you provided please?
@@MonsterJuiced for most avatars I would charge $40 - $65 based on complexity, toggles, clothing, animation, and if I had to edit the base model to fit something they wanted. It was something I did when I was younger since I couldn't work at the time and it was a good experience to learn modeling and how to use substance painter ^^
@@cain_10 That seems really cheap honestly I'm kind of surprised. Looking at vTubers they pay upwards of $500 or more for an avatar. Thanks for opening up about this, I've always wondered myself since a lot of these things seem to be so obscure and veiled
@@cain_10 (before reading the rest of this comment just know that there’s nothing wrong with your price) 40~60$? That’s around the price of an actual game. I knew people could buy avatars, but I never knew that they were around this price. I personally wouldn’t spend a dime on getting paid avatars, but that’s just me.
@@Marksmen17 I understand so no worries! Avatars are often very customized to be for the specific user and can even take multiple days to make if they don't respond on discord much or want a lot of future changes. Back when I was first starting on vrchat I ended up spending about $150 total on avatar comms. Got annoyed with the price so I started making my own and encouraged people who commission me to do the same!
Had a friend who played VRChat for like a week, I was genuinely shocked how quickly he turned into a degen. Thankfully he has moved on and regrets his decisions. I didn’t know much about it until him, and that event alone has completely deterred me from ever installing it.
Children…… children everywhere. I’m joking I’m joking no I actually had this experience more recently. A adult female asked me, an autistic minor to be her boyfriend….. I did the logical thing and left
It’s not so bad if you don’t go into public lobbies, to me it’s just been a good way to hang out with my long distance friends that I can’t see in person
as a VRC player, i can confirm that Vrchat has its downside, so much so that i mostly don't got to public lobbies unless a friend I know well is there, because is most of the time, is very chaotic. I keep myself with my friend group in friend + lobbies, so that random peoples cannot join and i keep myself on orange. so a recommendation to new VRC players: Explore like you want and make friends, but always remember to keep your Safety settings pretty high, and if an avatar is too much for you, you can always click on the person and hide their avatar, and as for someone being annoying/toxic, you can always mute them, and as a last resort, block them. Also, I'd recommend looking at people's banners above their name, to find yourself a nice group of friends to join easily and see if there are peoples with similar interest.
I don’t play vrchat super often anymore, but I agree. When I play I rarely join public lobbies, and even when I have, thankfully I haven’t had any super bad experiences. Its not every public lobby, and you can meet some pretty cool people on there. But you always have to be careful, too. And if you’re a minor, but you enjoy any adult shows (I.E. family guy, hazbin hotel, etc.) then I personally think it would be best to avoid worlds regarding those. The game is fun, I quite enjoy using the karaoke worlds, especially.
Common opinion I see, but I’ve see the absolute worst side the platform has, I was dating a girl but then she got addicted to vrchat and shortly after I broke up with her, not long after she started faking DID and got involved with pretty bad people and she basically became the worst person I’d ever met, I have a friend who plays vrc frequently but not too much, he actively has horror stories from public worlds, vrchat is a gross platform I hate it with my entire being, I hope it eventually gets shut down or replaced
Played VRC for several minutes, it was the most boring experience ever, so now it just sits in my steam library being apart of my game list for no reason
as someone that easilly has 1k+ hours in multiple games such as overwatch or apex legends etc, im telling u i cant even fathom or imagine someone having hundreds or 1k+ hours in vrchat of all. The term "go outside and touch grass" applies so much more to ppl in vrchat than in other games. Vrchat is in a completely different spot and ppl playing it a lot are down bad
Full agree. Even something like wow, the multiplier on hours is just... Different. If you tell me "I have like 5k hours on wow" I'm like "ahhh so you had a few years of being a bit of a neckbeard/were inside for college/were big into guild stuff" - honestly light hours for wow, from what I've heard. but if I hear 5k in VR chat? 5k with a headset on, potentially several tracking spots, and a screen stuck to your face? Holy shit. And we all know why. In other games, there is skill to be gained, genuine gameplay, etc. Vrchat is just... I've seen the pipeline. It converts people to just being... The worst versions of themselves, on any and all spectrums, so often. It's just like a worse and more horny 4chan board or something at this point for many communities, but with superficial limitations that are never followed and more personal drama.
You know how easy it is to get a thousand hours in VR chat. Really f****** easy when you spend 90% of your time in vrchat watching movies with your friends it's not hard at all it just happens. And to be honest I'd rather spend a thousand hours watching movies with my friends then playing something like Apex are cod I can't imagine that actually sounds like pain those games are competitive and toxic. At least I have fun with my friends watching movies
@@darkblade51224 lol theres a thing called real life where you can watch movies with friends. But you cant be in a battle royale as a dimensional warrior in real life
@@darkblade51224 first off, that entirely depends on time scale. Second off, a movie is 2 hours or so. 1000+ hours is a fucking LOT of movies. Third off, you can play the other games with friends, and have fun doing that as well, or connect over them. I've made some of my best friends in the past by playing competitively locally, and joining a team. We travelled together, had parties and such irl, stayed at each other's houses or at hotels for tourneys, etc. had to get each other through medical issues, go insane at our setups, etc. And I've got like somewhere between 800-1,500hrs on that game. I also watch races and movies with my friends all the time, but I can do that on discord or in person. Vrchat is not "better" than anything because it's a "social platform" because 70%+ of users at this point are brainrotted to hell and back. I know a lot of vrchat players, both online and in person, and it genuinely starts to ruin lives in multiple cases. If you are one of the few that somehow threads the needle while playing constantly, more power to you. But you gotta recognize, there are other ways to watch movies that can be just as / more fulfilling and safe, and you don't have to rely on vrchat to socialize or find friends. This is coming from an autistic person that hides in his room a lot. There are options.
Ngl, the only reason I use vr chat as a regular console gamer is purely so I could play as my favorite characters just to mess with people saying crazy shit while doing an impression of the character (essentially I did shitpost level (sfw) role plays with randoms in vrc game servers.) It was funny ngl, and people liked that I usually hated seeing nsfw shit while keeping a light tone. So like, thank god my experience was so much better than most people. I’ve done: Carl wheezer, scout, engineer, a space marine, Batman, N from murder drones, sir pentious, Mario, Luigi, rayman, etc. … didn’t stop me from having to see a few nude avatars in public lobbies on instances they didn’t belong in. Sigh
I still remember when I was hanging out with one of the VRC "families" and the "dad" and "daughter" went into a private room and uh... ya know... it still scars me to this day
3 years ago when i first downloaded Vrchat on my laptop i joinded a world and almost immediately was harassed by a 30 year old man, at the time i was 13... Today i still play Vrchat just on a vr headset and i now usually sit in private worlds with my friends, chilling and talking
When I first played VRC last summer, I didn't know what to expect. I just saw it trending on YT. But the first world I ever joined was The Black Cat. At first, I saw people talking, so I decided to talk to them for a while next thing I know I'm being roasted on so many levels that I didn't know existed. I was scared for my life. Then I left (after an hour on figuring out on how to leave) So I just went to random music world to cry in my sorrows
To be fair, the "black cat" is a world anyone who played the game would tell you NOT to go in public instances alone. It's where all the players on their way to speedrun nuisance-rank goes and trolls in general. But again, most of the time you have to go there, experience the chaotic nature of it and have someone in another world or a comment section answering you it's just the usual there, to learn about it... It's just the normal "welcome to VRchat" experience. xD
Getting upset about vr chat users roasting you is like the same level as reacting to getting flamed by a polish person like bro all you gotta say is “you’re literally polish”
This was a really good video honestly. I played VRChat a lot back in 2018/19 and it's crazy to see what sort of hellscape it's turned into nowadays. I typically avoid these sorts of games nowadays, but Resonite has been a pretty fun alternative. Just wish more people knew about it
VR Chat passed Dead by Daylight as my most played steam game. Absolute blast, its like being a billionaire. Go anywhere do anything... That said the game should be rated M or AO straight up. I get that children want to be included and involved but VR Chat is NOT it. A friend of mine at work was talking about buying their kid a VR headset. I told them: ""Hey, thats awesome! But don't let them play VR Chat."
@@serily4524 Good thing invite, invite +, and friends worlds exit, otherwise 'ruining the community' would be actually possible! Anyway it also has gore, glorification of alcohol and drinking games ect ect. Its not just because of the sex I say that. And even without the flat out sex, its just a very sexually charged culture.
I went to a joke vrchat wedding once and it was actually the most funny experience of my life man. It was both so awkward and not and I met these people that day but felt like I knew them for a lifetime. Also people would not stop talking over the paster so I yelled at such a volume everyone was silent until the ceremony was over
These forms of degeneracy is what made me spend almost no more time on VRChat. I have 1,257 hours on it as of writing this comment. Its upsetting for me since I often went there to hang with someone and talk about things I like. History, other video games like Warhammer, Doom, fighting games like Soulcalibur and Dead or Alive, Dark Souls, Ninja Gaiden, and a lot of old school PS2 games since that's what I grew up with. But I encounter so many mentally ill people now who have absolutely no idea what I talk about and often do not have any interest. So I'm now more alone on VR than I was when I was streaming on Twitch ALL ALONE! That should tell you the community is decaying.
Works pretty well single player using "invite only" for experiences like Organism, Epilogue, District Roboto / Complex 7 or Treehouse in the Shade. Lots of worlds with pretty cool themes from retrofuturism and cyberpunk through to melancholy moonlight drives in the scooby van on a rainy night. The public club style chat worlds just make me feel ancient.
bro during covid shit broke me for like 2 weeks, I was devolving RAPIDLY, think of the most degenerate shit possible, I was a part of it. Bro my body had like a second wind at some point, like a switch flicked in my brain asking me what the FUCK was I doing. I had to snap my friends out of the VRchat trance, they were so brain rotted from the crossdressing, cuddling mutes (40 year old obese men), ... touching and more. We all uninstalled it that day and swore to never mention this to anyone since.
I know that must be embarrassing to admit, but the ability to self reflect and realize it was a problem is something to be proud of honestly. So many can’t do that.
I played it when I was 16 and there were NSFW topics EVERYWHERE. The conversations among the many furries there were absolutely disgusting, especially in front of so many minors.
Understanding vrchat is like understanding the internet. Those who don’t use it often only see the bad and those who use it understand that there are weirdos and how to avoid them.
I got into VRChat before I even had VR just because I like making architecture in blender, and realized it was a fun way I could easily share what I made. I had no idea how deep the rabbit hole went lol... I really don't know why avatars and worlds can't just have an NSFW/18+ tag so that only people who intentionally opt in can see those (they kind of do, I know, but its pretty much non-functional). All a kid on quest has to do is click *Download* and *Play,* and studently have access to everything. I don't think a game that hosts User-Made content with basically zero limitations is a place for kids. Maybe if they made a secondary way to make worlds with an editor that has only approved models and textures, then the kids can just be limited to those worlds, but if they don't want to incorporate any safety measures then the game should have an R rating as it is. I think that pretty standard and non-controversial
This is the consensus I hear pretty much everyone agree with. Having specific rules for 18+ content and worlds is just better for everyone. People who want that stuff can have places for themselves and don't have to worry about anyone else, and can just do their thing. People who don't want to see anything 18+ don't have to worry anymore. Also, if the devs, or whoever monitors the game nowadays, wanted to monetize on that aspect a little, I'm pretty sure people would be cool with it. That's something else to consider idk.
vrchat in relation to performance has issues with people not optimizing avatars / not caring enough to, and probably doing the bare minimum, same can apply to worlds, but ive been seeing them trying to work on performance and memory issues as best they can which is good. some tips: - set all settings to low in game - set your vrchat window to the smallest size and keep it in focus - safety settings - hide nameplates to save some frames - you can change how many avatars are shown & how many are shown within a certain radius of you :3 if you really need to, on windows you can use a registry tweak to force vrchat to stay at high priority (EAC wont let you change it yourself) anyway yeah, vrchat kinda sucks in some ways
One of my friends told me a story how they were roleplaying Saul Goodman, but accidentally had a Pepsi man skin on, but everyone booed when he put on the Saul skin so he just ended up defending someone in fake court as Pepsi man
There genuinely needs to be an in depth psychological study on these people. I'm reading through the comments and it's incredibly gut wrenching to see how common it is for friends to "lose" other friends to VRchat. I had an ex a bit ago who spiraled into exclusively playing furry nsfw worlds, and his younger brother (who was also an adult) would literally spend at least 12 hours a DAY on the thing and sleep in his headset. It's truly depressing and horrible
I'm 11 minutes into your video and so far it's basically just been you describing... you know.... the internet. Every single gripe so far has been something you could apply to any other platform on the internet.
Many of the points made here make sense. There is a good part of the community, and of course there are parts that are bad. Pardon my adding of my experience, however I make content in VRC as well and have experienced so much. Most days it's fun meeting new folks and chat, or even going to cool worlds that have been created. Other times it can be a snooze fest of arguing, harassment and other horrible things. No doubt there are terrible sections of VRC. And that is an understatement. At the end of the day I was one of the lucky ones that has more good memories rather than bad. That doesn't eliminate some of the bad moments. Even after all of this I still do not regret meeting some of my greatest friends on there. Maybe some day VRC won't be as bad, we can dream.
TL;DW: VRchat is virtual reality's very own Second Life, with all the horror that entails. I remember the first time I played VRchat and went along with some enlisted guy I met who had also just started playing. Within a couple of hours, his avatar had become a little anime girl and he fell into the beginnings of diabolic shenanigans (read: sexual headpatting). As for me, I decided to keep my buff Bulbasaur avatar (which I found while we were exploring a pokemon world of course), and got out of dodge once I saw where things were heading. I tried to take my enlisted buddy with me, but he refused; It seems he had already become enamored with it all. VRchat is a place where the vulnerable go to become addicted to the worst forms of escapism, forms that lead only to spiritual death; It is also where predators go to prey upon said vulnerables. It draws you in with "haha funny virtual reality memes" and then tries to trap you into these terrible things. I wouldn't wish the depths of its evil upon my worst enemy, and I'm thankful to have only scratched the surface and fled. If you're in it, GET OUT! If you still draw breath you can escape it.
Funny thing is, I almost fell into that trap too. I got the game recently and checked it out, and I thought it’d be funny to go running around as a game character and just role-play as one for the jokes. As I was looking for avatars, I saw some really obscene content, and I got suspicions on the game. So I checked out reviews and warnings on the game, and figured that I needed to get out and delete the game ASAP before I go down the wrong path. Looking back now and seeing this video, I can tell I made the right choice.
@@McposhAi Yes, yes you did. Unfortunately, social games that rely on user-generated content and don't clamp down on pornographic material always wind up this way.
Yes, it can be very bizarre to witness. I remember those old Second Life trolling vids from long ago. Normal people vs. the deranged, and constant hijinks ensuing afterwards. It's funny on the surface, but it just becomes sad when you realize that they're disturbed individuals. When you realize that it's not them necessarily having fun, but trying to compensate for whatever they're lacking irl. That's when it becomes sad asf. To just see the fellow human behave like this. To see them give up and retreat into a false virtual paradise. Not only does it establish a pipeline for the vulnerable, enticing them with great efficiency, it also establishes a pipeline for the outcasts. The bad kind of outcasts. The ones who know they're evil at heart, and full of insanity. It appeals to them too, and it gives them a space where they're tolerated. And then they share this space with all other kinds of people. It is exactly what those bad actors want. It gives them everything a person could only have nightmares of. It's not just spiritual damage, it's psychological damage too. All a person can do is just observe the consequences of its creation.
one of my first ever memories on vrchat was hanging out with one friend, and we were playing murder mystery and i saw this one guy who was 38 (according to his bio). i saw him approach a young kid who was 14 ( again, according to their bio), and i cant make this up but they literally start flirting with the young kid and i immediately noticed it. i took my friend aside and i told my him about it and he told me that it was, "normal," and that little experience set the tone for the game. i still play vrchat till this day and have a lot fun exploring worlds with friends, and while i dont see anymore adults approaching young children in worlds anymore i still remember what happened and i think it still happens till this day.
I have also seen since VRChat came out on Oculus/Meta Quest where if someone is caught grooming minors or acting sexual towards them, they would threaten anyone who calls them out or threatens anyone who makes it public information if they were high profile in the VRChat space with harassment (ex. Death Threats, DOXXING/Swatting, Gaslighting, etc.) I am glad in 2024 that their predatory behavior is finally being shined into the light for everyone to see publicly and those who support their behavior go quiet when the majority with functioning braincells and have a grasp of the real world wont take their sides either or the people who support these predators getting exposed themselves for the same thing or worse.
I have a friend I catch playing this constantly. Non-stop. It’s honestly insane. I asked them once if they have a life outside VR chat and they said no. Couldn’t tell if they were joking or not 🤔
I sat at my desk for a uncomfortable amount of time in silence, registering what i had just watched and heard. I sat their staring into the void and asking myself one question. Why.
I sounded mildly prepubescent at 13, so in response the whole lobby chased me around naked, this was in murder mystery 2 mind you. My fault for yelling and giving a reaction but what else do you expect from a barely teen who attended church and youth group every Tuesday?
That isnt your fault at all. Unfortunately that's what people will tell you after doing it though. And don't be fooled, they knew damn well you weren't 18.
i remember back in the day when i got like a random group of 40 dudes to all have the same space marine avatar and break into Ugandan knuckles servers screaming stupid warhammer quotes... now its just a place for sad people
i somehow caused a raid on mcdonalds where i had left my avatar cloning on while running around in a fnaf map as fnaf movie william afton, and a shit ton of people cloned it and eventually we raided mcdonalds and later tried watching the fnaf movie
SHOW ME WHAT PASSES FOR FURY AMONG YOUR MISBEGOTTEN KIND
Funny that you imply that such an event wouldn't also be run by sad people
I wanna do this with fallout enclave soldiers
THEN do It more everybody lets Raid that PLACE for the emperor
What I find fascinating is that there is a vr chat accent. Plenty of boys try to force a monotone "corpse husband" voice, while the girls try do an ariana grande impression
Never thought of this but it's accurate
Shocking a bunch of gays try to imitate a popular gay
overdoing their masculinity and femininity
i just stay mute its so easy
@@tinnitusintensifiesthen it’s just VR and no chat, what’s the point?
I’d say, the best thing I did in vrchat, was give a kid the dad he never had, but wanted, the play baseball with your son type of dad. One day he broke down with tears of joy telling me I was a better dad than his own. knowing I changed a kid’s life forever that day, I ugly cried, the good kind.
If this aint the best reply i read here
Damn. That’s beautiful man.
I helped a veteran once
name and pfp checks out
👍👍👍
Shutting down VRChat is like shutting down mental asylum, you don't want to do that
Mental Asylums were built to contain those kinds of people, not create them like VRChat does.
we should have learned from the tumblr nsfw crackdown, or the twitter... everything
History repeats eventually
I can't believe my cute mute vrchat waifu was actually Dave,50,swindon. Back to the bottle for me.
I miss the drinking streams
Great video man, you speak for a lot of us who stopped trying, also meant the world to hear you mention my name along with such influential people considering i always saw them as on a level above myself
yeah, those males who chose females characters in game 🙄
i dont get it doesnt the big fat diaper men make it better?
@@cardndmch Aw hell naw, you aint throwing me in with them. I've picked female characters in rpg games like fallout before just to play a different character archetype. That's VERY different than going into a social chatting game and presenting yourself as a female to catfish. That's a whole other mental illness blud.
Upon realizing that my cute uwu pookie wasn't a 60 year old man, I fell into a deep depression. I still cry sometimes thinking about it.
What 💀
😂😂😂
wtf
That's crazy, how unfortunate
Don't worry. There's plenty of catfishes out in the sea. Youll find the right one eventually
“Erp has started seeping into games like roblox” as a veteran former roblox child… it’s been a problem for a long time, to the point where dedicated ERP games would be on the roblox homepage, truly the doom of humanity
Old sex places ≠ erp
Those games were made by trolls
@@dylan2-ud9yd yea, but there were definitely people using it for ERP
Started? Pfff... It's always been there... and now it's encouraged.
@@soupcangaming662 bingo
@@soupcangaming662yup exactly
I remember when the biggest issue was being harrased by shitty knuckles models yelling and spitting at you.
Yeah, now it's borderline criminal.
Bring back these Uganda knuckles trolls
Do you know da' wey?
Good times xD
That was peak VR chat
80% of Players just sit in front of a mirror because a girl with full body tracking is there
I always thought it was weird just seeing them staring at a mirror some dystopian type shit
@@IDKBRUH10115 This looks really weird, but for the other hand it's useful to see what facial expression you're actually using
@@DimetryBI have a friend who is cool but every time he got me on he just looked at a mirror and invited people to do it with. Kinda creepy (and boring).
Baaaaaaaaahhhhh×200 a bunch of sheep at the nice green pasture
There is a VERY small amount of People who stand infront of a mirror because of a cool avatar
I think vrchat in general falls into “the path to hell is paved with good intentions” category.
I find that as the unfortunate truth… 😓
Well then I'm going to a place worse than hell.
But everything about VRchat is good and harmless.
@@robertsears8323That's not true. But that can be said about most things, really. Even if the bad isn't that noticeable (but in this case, VRC's bad is pretty prominent).
@@j0doe1 There is just nothing bad in VRChat. In this whole video I didn't see anyone doing anything wrong.
“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
Based
I disagree
*_ARMOR-CLAD FAAAITH_*
Vrchat is a lake filled with urine then
Didn't Ghandi turn out to be a _massive_ creep
Being married and on vrchat then saying so everyone around you “yeah my wife is just listening to me be annoying” really changed the way people spoke to me
Honestly, made my time wayyyyyy better just casually dropping I'm in a relationship lol. It's kinda fun dropping my girlfriends near cause then they try involve her too and talk to her. Its kinda nice lmao.
@@AidenLumpkins u have a weird and niche hobby there, lil bro
the game is "ok" but SOME of the people are insane fr
accurate
i played it for a bit. but for every one cool dude i met, i ran into tweny more who where either assholes, or weird as hell.
Can I play on Mobile?@@Blint338
right when the anti cheat and my dad changing the admin pin happened. i lost the ability to play the game :(
I think some of the games are pretty fun but I mainly just play private matches with my friends beacuse...well everybody else is insane
Nah bruh 3000 hours is crazy💀
I have a problem I know
tiktok ahh comment 💀💀
@@liliths-dog never downloaded tiktok in my life and never will brainrot app
AI Generated ahh comment
@@RoyaltyishereI ended up being worse than you by the time I quit ☹️
Old vrchat was so much fun with full lobbies of people just messing around and having stupid fun. Now, it is super awkward to play because most people don't even socialize in it anymore. You can join a full lobby but nothing is actually happening. Having and using fullbody should be epic and amazing but people do even less socializing.
VRChat is the worst... when you're playing solely for public servers.
When you have trustworthy friends and worlds that aren't just mirrors and low framerates, you get a worthy experience.
Actually facts. Once you get out of publics and establish a friend group that isn't highschool drama/sad people its a great experience once in awhile but I admit that's a lot of steps and effort.
@@firestalker11 i found a nice group of friends even before getting to know vrchat (they made me be interested in the first place), so i guess i'm some lucky cookie xD so when we hang out it's most likely in friends+ instances and playing funny games or chilling around a campfire (they all live far away from me)
An old online friend of mine literally became a mirror dweller, got addicted to VR chat, sleeps, eats, and has it on day and night. Only hangs out with kids when they're way older, and overall even started dating some of them from what I heard from others. I dropped them awhile back after they ignored me, but I honestly regret introducing them to the game. I just wanted to do some murder mystery :"L
☹️
Damn.
If you're a real one you're going to help him get off of it, just give him a good classic Sonic game and he'll forget about vrchat like it never existed
that will never work, that will be even worse@@-originalLemon-
@@-originalLemon- I've tried multiple times before we split. Said maybe we should branch to other things so we could relate more. Gave them time to cope, gave them cards even that I made personally, would try and get my friends to help them be motivated. They're a person who doesn't want to change and will then blame it on everyone else.
Met someone on vrc yesterday that's the same age as me except she was dating a 22 year old, a 22 year old that threatened to rape her. I advised her to file a report, as any sane human being should. She protested and protected his actions, what a world we live in. For reference she turned 18 two week ago, while they've been "Friends" for way longer. Truly insane people.
Insane
that's crazy yo
I hope its just a kink and not something real 😅
Sadly that´s how abuse works often times, a tale as old as time that people, male or female, will stick with their abuser
Takes 2 to tango
Bad actors will always penetrate spaces where parents are negligent. Parents need to step up
"VRC is the worst" proceeds to spend 3000 hours on the app.
yknow this is the kinda thing about "a lot of hours in the worst games". like i say gta online is just kinda bad, even if i have 2700 hours on the game total. we with a lot of hours can say full well how bad something is cause we have a lot of experience on it, or maybe because they by nature tend to be good hangout games, so there's no real reason to stop unless you wanna like explore your library or afford more.
so yeah, a lot of hours but saying its bad means you can say it with more certainty than someone with like 10 hours.
- "I hate this server"
- Stays
copium
I mean that should mean he definitely knows what he's saying
"app". Zoomer spotted
I try my best to avoid the NSFW side of VRChat, I have the phrase "Please do not approach me sexually" in my bio... all of my friends think I'm crazy.
Nah your friends are the crazy ones if they think setting boundaries makes you "crazy" 💀
@@AlphaHaze you're crazy if you play the game lol.
@@dansker4185 the closest I could ever get to VRchat are roblox roleplays lmao
@@AlphaHaze even roblox is a bit iffy tbh.
@@dansker4185 true especially with all online dating stuff that's going on. It's potentially harmful to children who play the game.
Welcome to vrchat, we're insane, depressed, alcoholics, creeps or just casual people, dont trust anyone for who they say they are and keep all convos in the ride at all times.
accurate for the pug came across many of alcoholics trying to one up each other
Im one of the casual people
the fact you said "we" is the saddest part.
And yet 1000 times better then ready player two
Hah, true. I'm part of the alcohol group
A lost a friend because of this game, I played VRChat for leisure fun to mess with people. I introduced him into this game and he spiraled out of control while he played on his own time to the point where he lived on this game and essentially got groomed at 16 and ended up with a ERP cult and a week in was in a 'relationship' with someone years older than him in the game. Since then bro racked up 3k hours from living on this game and essentially sleeping with his VR headset on too. Shits sad and I was just pushed aside. It was 8 years I was friends with this guy and suddenly I'm just not existing.
Gotta admit it's prolly my fault but it is what it is, never introducing anyone else in my circle about this game.
Actually met one of his new 'friends' in-game once and sounded awfully pedo-like tone in his voice, my gut seriously was telling me to stay away. All they talked about was erotic garbage to where it was nauseating. This place is dangerous for what it is and wish I could go back before the Quests and Covid days. The fact kids are infecting this game at such an alarming rate is disgusting and VRChat devs just let it happen.
I like coming back to this game just for chatting and meeting people, play some of the mini-games it has to offer. But damn, most of the people on this platform are sad to deal with. Not much better than Discord honestly.
dammn thats really sad hope your friend gets better soon sleeping with a vr headset on is crazy
I know how you feel. I have a childhood friend who I’ve been friends with for 9 years and I introduced them to vr and vrchat was one of those games. Now all he does is play vrchat and stopped talking to me when I wanted to help him get his life together.
The "coronavirus" deaths vere actually vr chat players getting virtual syphylis after 10k+ and dying. Never knew. Very educational content.
The "Eye-Worms" got to them
i have vrchat marked in my steam library as "horror" for a reason
Sounds about correct
My sister plays this game on her account and I regret it Letting on my quest
One time on my oculus, I downloaded vrchat because my friend was playing it and I wanted to join them since we never played together.....never again.
the therapy must be expensive
@@Royaltyishere very
It's ok as long as you stay out of the cesspit worlds. I usually stay in the game worlds such as cards against humanity and such
@@gagapoopywhat did you see
@@Shmuckytp you dont wanna know
can confirm as a quiet vrchat player that there are indeed normal people and we try not to claim the weird mfs 💀
Kinda feels like this ends up happening on ANY social platform.
YT is a social platform, and because it enforces rules that don't allow for UTTERLY degenerate behaviour, it's still going just fine
VRC's problem is moderation. It's impossible to moderate consistently. Let's not pretend that VRC's social culture is just like any other social platform because it isn't. It's full of depraved weirdos and young social outcasts who get preyed on. That describes 1/3 of its whole userbase
You can't really say the same about other social platforms that are properly moderated. I've seen men in their 20s dare children as young as 14 to drink alcohol, out in a public room. if you posted the same conversation publicly on Twitter or FB or YT or most social spaces with proper moderation, you'd get dogpiled.
I loved that clip "Where's the money lebowski?" "Its down there somewhere, let me take another look" my dad showed me that years ago
He pissed on my rug
@@asu-5748 his dad?
My irl friend got a vr headset and started playing this, he’s never been the same since that day. Today he gets 23 hours per day average on vr chat. I WISH I was joking :( he doesn’t show up to events, he doesn’t want to hang out anymore. All he does is play vrchat. It’s genuinely sad.
Is your friend depressed?
@@Dwarf_Enjoyer Unsure, could be a possibility. But according to him “doing stuff in vr is more fun then doing stuff irl”
@@brewsmusicso ur saying ur friend only gets 1 hour of interaction/entertainment outside of vrchat?? That’s really unhealthy sounds like he’s into deep and is brain rotting help him before it’s really too late
@@plyinglocket553 It IS too late, he has gotten himself into a vrchat relationship, its been like 3 months and theyve already broken up and gotten together like 3 times. He even told me that he wants to marry her... He's long gone bruh
dude is in ready player one irl
I love VRC and here's all I have to say:
Virtually every problem outlined in this video is 1000% accurate, which is why I very rarely go to public worlds. I have a close-knit group of friends I trust and we hop on every once in a while to meet up in a cool new world and play games. I absolutely love spending time in VRC but NOT interacting with the vast majority of the community.
Don't let this vid dissuade you, there are so many incredible places to see and people to meet, just have to find the diamonds in the rough and you'll have amazing experiences
Naw just make friends in real life.
@@smurgerburger you know u can play with ur irl friends in vr....
@@Sans_fanohyeahOr form friendships from people you never would meet IRL THEN meet up IRL
Vr chat Propaganda
Risks are too high. Playing VRC is only viable with people you've met in real life.
Going on VRChat was easily the worst decision I have ever made
I'm three days in, and I want to leave
@@shrochiiget out while you can it’s a slippery slope
@@shrochiiyou can still escape before it gets it's claws in you, run!
It's crazy how people were proud of having 10,000+ hours on VRC and shaming me for only reaching my first 2,000 hours after having played on and off since 2018. 💀
be glad you have a life
idk 2k hours on vr chat is cutting it really close to not having a life @@OnlySayori
@@ThePimpinator they said in the comment "after having played on and off since 2018", we can probably safely say that alot of the chunk OF that time was during the 2020 pandemic, which makes sense, so yes they probably do have a life, 2k hours CAN be alot but in this context it really isn't
@@OnlySayori if you think about it, your father might have over 2k hours in your mom
@@ThePimpinator2k over SIX YEARS really ain’t that bad
3,5k hours on VRchat is insane
Amateur numbers
Pyrocynical ahh comment
@@x-blood93true 😭
I know a girl with 18k hours in vrchat.
@@Username-2that’s sad asf tell her to get a life
I still think back to this time someone walked up to me and asked if I can say "Absolutely" and now I'm guessing there's a video of me out there enthusiastically agreeing to some fucked up shit.
Probably recording different voices saying different stuff to later gaslight and troll randoms with.
VRchat is amazing when you dont use it to make friends, but rather hang out with people you already know. Every saturday night is basically a 3-4 hour vrchat session of exploring interesting worlds, watching a movie, and drinking of course. Thank god for private lobbies
Yeah. Not everybody has the luxury of having friends in their older ages. I’m 23 and have nobody , no real friends who arethere for me. That’s why I feel VRchat would be good for me. Antisocial, introvert
The old Memes are way funnier than the newest ones.
A relic from the past. I miss the old internet.
Uganda Knuckles was pretty funny. Until it got stale.
Too right
Don’t disrespect skibidi toilet 😡
@@armaniquintanilla2836 skibidi poo on deez nuts
UA-cam algorithm did you so dirty you make good content and UA-cam isn't promoting it. Shame, keep up the good work mate
i got recommended this
Still can't understand how you've been on this channel for 6 years
@@Royaltyishere aot edits hooked me and been here ever since
@@Royaltyisherecan check newest coments to see my comment under this comment for a new video idea.
ive been force fed this video the past 5 days until i finally clicked it 💀💀
I audibly gasped when you showed the 3K hour playtime holy moly
I've been a member of my local dubstep/rave community ever since i was 16 in real life; i am now 23. When i started playing vrchat heavily during covid i tried to find that scene in VrChat because i just wanted friends that liked dubstep too. What I found was the ultimate form of cancer. These people didnt care about the music at all, these are real producers/artists performing playing their music and most of these people didnt give af about the music. They just wanted to watch themselves dance in their overally sexual avatars or attention and to say they went to a "Rave" (the dubstep scene has very certain ways we dance to our type of music so it was very obvious when someone wasn't a real fan). As someone whos been going to raves for years I do dress half naked in real life as its part of the fashion and its VERY hot at those events.. and i never had the need to wear an overally sexualized female anime character. The desperation for male attention in this game is ridiculous when most of the people in this game are 4s on a good day. They aren't used to attention in real life so they get it in this game and become addicted. Not that im any better than these people but i understand what im seeing. If anything is the utter disrespect for the dubstep community that people indulge in that pisses me off the most.
"They aren't used to attention in real life so they get it in this game and become addicted."
THIS. This is exactly what has me hooked. I even act in ways I otherwise wouldn't so I can get just a bit more of it. Its horrible, but it is what having no friends for years in real life does to a person, I guess. It started out as something to help with my lack of a social life, though now, nearing 2.5k hours, I feel its begun to _replace_ it rather than substitute it.
@JagiUGG I like your statement I feel like that's very true for me as well "its begun replace it rather than substitute it.". Honestly its a very consuming environment everyone acts that way so you become like that too and honestly at least you can recognize but there are many that can't. I was hooked the same way but I've realized most of my "friends" on VrChat now I don't even remember most of their names. Most of my friends are online but I usually manage to turn those these online friendships into real life friendships and I find that I get so much dopamine from hanging out with friends in real life much more than I ever did on VrChat. Of course I still hang out with my friends on discord and play games but I try to stray away from toxic environments such as huge discord servers and VrChat; its more of a genuine experience.. but for a long time I never really had that experience so I didn't even know what that was like .(also I feel like VrChat has the vibe of a huge discord server where people have alot of ego and there are alot of attention-seeking people they are pretty similar to me in that sense).
@@womanofficialx Haven't really hung out properly with anyone in years so I cant really remember what its like. I have no irl friends. I do try to get to know the people on VRC to the best of my ability. Always get their Discord as soon as its okay to do so, ask about them, talk to them, I try my best to remember all the details including birthdays and names.. I just try and make it work, I guess
I had a phase with Vrchat, it was when I started working overnight so I figured it would be nice to have somewhere to socialize (P.s it was also when squid game came out so I played the vrc version of it so much)
For a long time it was a great place, I had a ton of fun with people and made so many unique friends. I was so into it I made an entire soundboard of postal dude lines and would manage to have full conversations as him. But after awhile all the people I knew got outed for being horrible peeps, and eventually I just could not find chill people. Either everyone was overtly sexual, narcissistic or just depressing to be around :/ so I stopped playing, it’s a shame cause I think the game could be neat but it’s full of rough people
Normal people play it from time to time if at all, addicted no-lifers are on 24/7 and produce the majority of its content. All virtual spaces that allow pornographic content (and even some that don't) inevitably turn out this way, because the stable people play less, the unstable people play more, and eventually the unstable ones drive away the stable ones with their obscenity.
@@KnoxEmDownwell said, it’s the people with the most free time that tend to be the worst kinds of people to be around on things like this.
If VR chat had been a thing when I was a cringy socially inept 16 yo I probably would’ve lived on this fucking game. Now as a (somewhat) more mature adult I still think it looks fun, but I’d never find the time to play it.
Games like this eliminate for insufferable social rejects in a way.
@@KnoxEmDownroblox be like
@@CrazyLikeUhFox fr dude, 16 yo me would've loved this, but I have to be in a specific mood to enjoy Vrchat. Sometimes I get a group of chill people for a couple hours, its great. But I can go weeks with hopping in for 15 minutes and leaving cause everyone's fucking insane.
Hey, it sounds like you used it to its potential. You had fun while it lasted and managed to stop when it fell off for you.
my friend who was around 14-15 played vr chat with a headset and according to him people just immediately got too close and other stuff to him and made him uncomfortable so yeah, its certainly a game.
once in a blue moon you will meet real people
I hope that he didn't continue. The grooming and pipelines on vrc are insane.
Usually tell anyone who's not 18 to step off the game, while I never experienced any creeps myself, I know they exist and would rather that not to happen to someone.
Getting uncomfortable because people are too close in a game 💀💀💀💀💀
@@thedogatemyname9982 to be entirely fair to him, if you are a 14 year old and fully grown adults immediately get close and cuddly with potentially sexually themed avatars or comments... Yeah, that's fkn weird, game or not.
Vrchat isn't like someone standing next to you in wow, because the point of view is literally made to make you feel fully immersed, and people can move like... People. Including some weird shit.
as a vrchat player one of my first experiences was seeing a naked man chase a child around while his friends egged him on honestly felt horrible to see especially since i couldnt do much but just report him and block him
so yeah it can be pretty bad
The game is filled with groomers. I only played it for a little bit but one time some guy kept trying to tell me I might be gay and I should flirt with him. Told him to f off and haven't played since. Now imagine these types of people doing this to minors
I've went through the same experience too. There's too many people in their echo chambers that play this game. And these narcissistic idiots is warping the culture of the game making no incentive to play it to meet new people.
wow so you played a game once, had a bad experience, cried and refused to play it anymore, very mature
As an avatar creator, this is why I have no motivation to create avatars anymore.
(edit) Honestly the only reason I even play anymore is cuz a friend of mine has been growing a pretty neat VR exploration community alongside his UA-cam audience, and it's the only bastion of hope left for me in this game.
Kanna protecc, google it.
i love when youtubers try saying "like" or "subscribe" but it doesnt actually activate the feature
It lit up when he said subscribe for me. Also didn’t know that was a thing till the end of this video
I’ve only seen it glow when people say “subscribe”
One day i just wanted to have goofy fun with a friend of mine in VRchat. Now i lost him to a femboi who he spends more time with than with me or our friends irl.
Piccrew pfp
@@strongestgamer2501 🤫🧏♂🗿
it shouldve been me
i can say it before even watching the video
1. the little kids knowing things they shouldnt know at the age of 4
2. the toxic community quite literally making me want to kms
3. the 13-30 year old couples (huge age gap)
4. the fact that most popular games dont have ANYTHING to do (its just a mirror)
It hurts me desperatly
Wait.... So making an avatar private doesn't even work? That's what I'm getting from the "you worked several painful hours on an avatar? Too bad, mine now." part.
Ripping is truly a mess. Even noobs without any skills can just rip an avatar within 15 minutes, basically Unity-ready.
Shortly said - making your avatar private makes it impossible for others to use, but ripping is basically just stealing the files. It used to be worse, as Ripperstore was still a thing. Ripperstore even made some kind of tournament, who does rip the most avatars within a certain time. Nowadays Ripperstore only has the forum left, which isn't that bad.
@@meguryzer9689 but i would not suddenly see people running around wearing my avatar after i made it private the moment I start the game?
@@fabianremie9888 Unless your avatar isn't a default booth model, no. The moment you enter a lobby with people, there is a risk of people ripping it. But that's a given. Most people are too lazy though, so you should ve fine. Making it private prevents most people from using it.
Ngl fucking with people (not like that) in vrchat helped my depression alot and helped me get used to talking about ridiculous stuff without the fear of anything being remembered by people I know and it helped give me a perspective of other parts of the world
vrchat has some nastly people in it, but it's also an amazing way to express your identity if you don't have the opportunity to at home, also you can hang out with friends if for example its raining outside but you still wanna chill together, i used to do that quite a lot
Never found the VR thing inticing. Now I am glad I avoided that headspace.
Most vr games aren’t like this though.
@@mazef8836 I'm good. 👌
I was an avatar creator on VRChat for 3 years and I have a bit to talk about ^^
I agree with much of what was said about VRChat in this video. From my experience optimization and creation was a major pain, there would often be people coming to me about their custom avatar being stolen/force cloned, and I'd get some very weird commissions that go outside of my comfort zone. I would say there are a lot of degenerates but also some really good people on the platform depending on which worlds you visit and what kind of communities stay around them.
Recommendations for new peeps:
Keep your security settings high because crashers are very popular but can be stopped just by having good security settings. be mindful of the places you visit and think about the people you might meet there, obviously if you go in a not safe world you're gonna meet not safe people. If you get a custom avatar, be careful about giving your account details out because it could be a scam! Check to make sure they've made avatars for other people and possibly get in contact with a few people who have worked with them for their feedback. If you don't want to give out your account details for direct upload, ask if they can make it cloneable from theirs.
Good to know :) I used to suggest to my gf to go play VR chat and have fun but since those days it's completely devolved into something pretty worrying and unsafe. Out of curiosity, what were your commission rates for each kind of avatar service you provided please?
@@MonsterJuiced for most avatars I would charge $40 - $65 based on complexity, toggles, clothing, animation, and if I had to edit the base model to fit something they wanted. It was something I did when I was younger since I couldn't work at the time and it was a good experience to learn modeling and how to use substance painter ^^
@@cain_10 That seems really cheap honestly I'm kind of surprised. Looking at vTubers they pay upwards of $500 or more for an avatar. Thanks for opening up about this, I've always wondered myself since a lot of these things seem to be so obscure and veiled
@@cain_10
(before reading the rest of this comment just know that there’s nothing wrong with your price)
40~60$?
That’s around the price of an actual game. I knew people could buy avatars, but I never knew that they were around this price. I personally wouldn’t spend a dime on getting paid avatars, but that’s just me.
@@Marksmen17 I understand so no worries! Avatars are often very customized to be for the specific user and can even take multiple days to make if they don't respond on discord much or want a lot of future changes. Back when I was first starting on vrchat I ended up spending about $150 total on avatar comms. Got annoyed with the price so I started making my own and encouraged people who commission me to do the same!
Had a friend who played VRChat for like a week, I was genuinely shocked how quickly he turned into a degen. Thankfully he has moved on and regrets his decisions. I didn’t know much about it until him, and that event alone has completely deterred me from ever installing it.
Children…… children everywhere. I’m joking I’m joking no I actually had this experience more recently. A adult female asked me, an autistic minor to be her boyfriend….. I did the logical thing and left
It’s not so bad if you don’t go into public lobbies, to me it’s just been a good way to hang out with my long distance friends that I can’t see in person
as a VRC player, i can confirm that Vrchat has its downside, so much so that i mostly don't got to public lobbies unless a friend I know well is there, because is most of the time, is very chaotic.
I keep myself with my friend group in friend + lobbies, so that random peoples cannot join and i keep myself on orange.
so a recommendation to new VRC players: Explore like you want and make friends, but always remember to keep your Safety settings pretty high, and if an avatar is too much for you, you can always click on the person and hide their avatar, and as for someone being annoying/toxic, you can always mute them, and as a last resort, block them. Also, I'd recommend looking at people's banners above their name, to find yourself a nice group of friends to join easily and see if there are peoples with similar interest.
I don’t play vrchat super often anymore, but I agree. When I play I rarely join public lobbies, and even when I have, thankfully I haven’t had any super bad experiences. Its not every public lobby, and you can meet some pretty cool people on there. But you always have to be careful, too. And if you’re a minor, but you enjoy any adult shows (I.E. family guy, hazbin hotel, etc.) then I personally think it would be best to avoid worlds regarding those. The game is fun, I quite enjoy using the karaoke worlds, especially.
Common opinion I see, but I’ve see the absolute worst side the platform has, I was dating a girl but then she got addicted to vrchat and shortly after I broke up with her, not long after she started faking DID and got involved with pretty bad people and she basically became the worst person I’d ever met, I have a friend who plays vrc frequently but not too much, he actively has horror stories from public worlds, vrchat is a gross platform I hate it with my entire being, I hope it eventually gets shut down or replaced
The worst thing i ever did was aways in private lobbys with nobody in the lobby
Another recommendation is just dont play it, which is arguably the better option
@@DimtheEnderman Naaaaaah, ima keep playing anyway XD
Not VRChat, but the society predominantly using it projecting their darkest desires/craving what they were denied, modern society.
Ngl you're not wrong
it's like a black market
The industrial revolution and its consequences
Its crazy cause Im just using a Naruto skin
@@strongestgamer2501 The consequences of using the industrial revolution on all the wrong enemies
Bro that baby was suffering
We definitely fell victim to the appeal of "too much freedom" from this game not gonna lie, great video man 💚
Played VRC for several minutes, it was the most boring experience ever, so now it just sits in my steam library being apart of my game list for no reason
You can remove a free game from your Steam account permanently
@kidnamed3392 I know
@@pir_hana ok
as someone that easilly has 1k+ hours in multiple games such as overwatch or apex legends etc, im telling u i cant even fathom or imagine someone having hundreds or 1k+ hours in vrchat of all. The term "go outside and touch grass" applies so much more to ppl in vrchat than in other games. Vrchat is in a completely different spot and ppl playing it a lot are down bad
Full agree. Even something like wow, the multiplier on hours is just... Different.
If you tell me "I have like 5k hours on wow" I'm like "ahhh so you had a few years of being a bit of a neckbeard/were inside for college/were big into guild stuff" - honestly light hours for wow, from what I've heard.
but if I hear 5k in VR chat?
5k with a headset on, potentially several tracking spots, and a screen stuck to your face?
Holy shit.
And we all know why.
In other games, there is skill to be gained, genuine gameplay, etc.
Vrchat is just... I've seen the pipeline. It converts people to just being... The worst versions of themselves, on any and all spectrums, so often. It's just like a worse and more horny 4chan board or something at this point for many communities, but with superficial limitations that are never followed and more personal drama.
You know how easy it is to get a thousand hours in VR chat. Really f****** easy when you spend 90% of your time in vrchat watching movies with your friends it's not hard at all it just happens. And to be honest I'd rather spend a thousand hours watching movies with my friends then playing something like Apex are cod I can't imagine that actually sounds like pain those games are competitive and toxic. At least I have fun with my friends watching movies
@@darkblade51224 lol theres a thing called real life where you can watch movies with friends. But you cant be in a battle royale as a dimensional warrior in real life
@@darkblade51224 first off, that entirely depends on time scale. Second off, a movie is 2 hours or so. 1000+ hours is a fucking LOT of movies. Third off, you can play the other games with friends, and have fun doing that as well, or connect over them.
I've made some of my best friends in the past by playing competitively locally, and joining a team. We travelled together, had parties and such irl, stayed at each other's houses or at hotels for tourneys, etc. had to get each other through medical issues, go insane at our setups, etc.
And I've got like somewhere between 800-1,500hrs on that game.
I also watch races and movies with my friends all the time, but I can do that on discord or in person.
Vrchat is not "better" than anything because it's a "social platform" because 70%+ of users at this point are brainrotted to hell and back. I know a lot of vrchat players, both online and in person, and it genuinely starts to ruin lives in multiple cases.
If you are one of the few that somehow threads the needle while playing constantly, more power to you. But you gotta recognize, there are other ways to watch movies that can be just as / more fulfilling and safe, and you don't have to rely on vrchat to socialize or find friends.
This is coming from an autistic person that hides in his room a lot. There are options.
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This video and the comment section are saying a lot of important things that needed to be brought to light. Good work!
Modern vrchat makes me want to go back to the crasher era of vrc
Perhaps Uganda knuckles trolls too?
Ngl, the only reason I use vr chat as a regular console gamer is purely so I could play as my favorite characters just to mess with people saying crazy shit while doing an impression of the character (essentially I did shitpost level (sfw) role plays with randoms in vrc game servers.)
It was funny ngl, and people liked that I usually hated seeing nsfw shit while keeping a light tone.
So like, thank god my experience was so much better than most people.
I’ve done:
Carl wheezer, scout, engineer, a space marine, Batman, N from murder drones, sir pentious, Mario, Luigi, rayman, etc.
… didn’t stop me from having to see a few nude avatars in public lobbies on instances they didn’t belong in. Sigh
Same brother, same
I still remember when I was hanging out with one of the VRC "families" and the "dad" and "daughter" went into a private room and uh... ya know... it still scars me to this day
VRC families are bad 😨
3 years ago when i first downloaded Vrchat on my laptop i joinded a world and almost immediately was harassed by a 30 year old man, at the time i was 13... Today i still play Vrchat just on a vr headset and i now usually sit in private worlds with my friends, chilling and talking
"SNORLAX I DO NOT CHOOSE YOU" XQC never fails to make me laugh
*always fails to make me laugh
BIG WHALE
When I first played VRC last summer, I didn't know what to expect. I just saw it trending on YT. But the first world I ever joined was The Black Cat. At first, I saw people talking, so I decided to talk to them for a while next thing I know I'm being roasted on so many levels that I didn't know existed. I was scared for my life. Then I left (after an hour on figuring out on how to leave) So I just went to random music world to cry in my sorrows
To be fair, the "black cat" is a world anyone who played the game would tell you NOT to go in public instances alone. It's where all the players on their way to speedrun nuisance-rank goes and trolls in general. But again, most of the time you have to go there, experience the chaotic nature of it and have someone in another world or a comment section answering you it's just the usual there, to learn about it...
It's just the normal "welcome to VRchat" experience. xD
Getting upset about vr chat users roasting you is like the same level as reacting to getting flamed by a polish person like bro all you gotta say is “you’re literally polish”
@@MrEgg-zb2nf i approve this message as a polish person, do not ever take us seriously
what even happend to the og pug bar?@@renookami4651
Sorry to hear you experienced that, people on there are horrible
This was a really good video honestly. I played VRChat a lot back in 2018/19 and it's crazy to see what sort of hellscape it's turned into nowadays. I typically avoid these sorts of games nowadays, but Resonite has been a pretty fun alternative. Just wish more people knew about it
Same position i was in as well, I played VRchat pre covid and it hasn't been the same since.
Dear god that sound around 12:45 of zooming in absolutely slapped me in the face with nostalgia.
we are both old :-)
What is it from? I've defs heard it before too.
@@Crusader634 its from star wars battlefield 1. Its the loading screen sound that plays when entering missions.
@@Royaltyishere I’m only 23, I’m not that old man.
@@abysswatcher5745 thanks!
VR Chat passed Dead by Daylight as my most played steam game. Absolute blast, its like being a billionaire. Go anywhere do anything...
That said the game should be rated M or AO straight up. I get that children want to be included and involved but VR Chat is NOT it. A friend of mine at work was talking about buying their kid a VR headset. I told them: ""Hey, thats awesome! But don't let them play VR Chat."
DBD checks out
A furry defending consumerist escapism.
Checks out
@@strongestgamer2501 'consumerist escapism' well, here in America its called capitalism
@@GoldKitsuneBronyThe game should ban its garbage players ruining the community, this game is not a nsfw game
@@serily4524 Good thing invite, invite +, and friends worlds exit, otherwise 'ruining the community' would be actually possible!
Anyway it also has gore, glorification of alcohol and drinking games ect ect. Its not just because of the sex I say that.
And even without the flat out sex, its just a very sexually charged culture.
I went to a joke vrchat wedding once and it was actually the most funny experience of my life man. It was both so awkward and not and I met these people that day but felt like I knew them for a lifetime. Also people would not stop talking over the paster so I yelled at such a volume everyone was silent until the ceremony was over
nice
These forms of degeneracy is what made me spend almost no more time on VRChat. I have 1,257 hours on it as of writing this comment.
Its upsetting for me since I often went there to hang with someone and talk about things I like. History, other video games like Warhammer, Doom, fighting games like Soulcalibur and Dead or Alive, Dark Souls, Ninja Gaiden, and a lot of old school PS2 games since that's what I grew up with. But I encounter so many mentally ill people now who have absolutely no idea what I talk about and often do not have any interest. So I'm now more alone on VR than I was when I was streaming on Twitch ALL ALONE! That should tell you the community is decaying.
Works pretty well single player using "invite only" for experiences like Organism, Epilogue, District Roboto / Complex 7 or Treehouse in the Shade. Lots of worlds with pretty cool themes from retrofuturism and cyberpunk through to melancholy moonlight drives in the scooby van on a rainy night. The public club style chat worlds just make me feel ancient.
bro during covid shit broke me for like 2 weeks, I was devolving RAPIDLY, think of the most degenerate shit possible, I was a part of it. Bro my body had like a second wind at some point, like a switch flicked in my brain asking me what the FUCK was I doing. I had to snap my friends out of the VRchat trance, they were so brain rotted from the crossdressing, cuddling mutes (40 year old obese men), ... touching and more. We all uninstalled it that day and swore to never mention this to anyone since.
I know that must be embarrassing to admit, but the ability to self reflect and realize it was a problem is something to be proud of honestly. So many can’t do that.
Bro entered his redemption arc
And then you posted it on the internet :p
No judgement here lol
40 year old obese male gamers... the most oppressed group in society
Locked in and won 💪💪💪
I played it when I was 16 and there were NSFW topics EVERYWHERE. The conversations among the many furries there were absolutely disgusting, especially in front of so many minors.
Probably because they were furries.
Because children shouldnt be allowed to be there in the first place, no one there cares about anyone getting traumatized over what they say.
@@saramorin4792 VrChat is not 18+??? It was in every game.
@@shibenews8416it should be 18+ and most people treat it that way
@@Username-2 That's not my fault, there ARE games however that have that warning. That's their issue not mine.
Vrchat once was a nice place.
I am so glad i got out of that before degenerate season
Understanding vrchat is like understanding the internet. Those who don’t use it often only see the bad and those who use it understand that there are weirdos and how to avoid them.
I got into VRChat before I even had VR just because I like making architecture in blender, and realized it was a fun way I could easily share what I made. I had no idea how deep the rabbit hole went lol...
I really don't know why avatars and worlds can't just have an NSFW/18+ tag so that only people who intentionally opt in can see those (they kind of do, I know, but its pretty much non-functional). All a kid on quest has to do is click *Download* and *Play,* and studently have access to everything. I don't think a game that hosts User-Made content with basically zero limitations is a place for kids. Maybe if they made a secondary way to make worlds with an editor that has only approved models and textures, then the kids can just be limited to those worlds, but if they don't want to incorporate any safety measures then the game should have an R rating as it is. I think that pretty standard and non-controversial
This is the consensus I hear pretty much everyone agree with. Having specific rules for 18+ content and worlds is just better for everyone. People who want that stuff can have places for themselves and don't have to worry about anyone else, and can just do their thing. People who don't want to see anything 18+ don't have to worry anymore. Also, if the devs, or whoever monitors the game nowadays, wanted to monetize on that aspect a little, I'm pretty sure people would be cool with it. That's something else to consider idk.
@@robertvangooff8506 Its the one thing ChilloutVR kind of did right, besides it being just a more buggy version of VRChat but with props
@@Riley_Christian Chillout could be much more popular if avatar creation wasn't such dogshit. I tried but it always gave me API errors so I gave up.
vrchat in relation to performance has issues with people not optimizing avatars / not caring enough to, and probably doing the bare minimum, same can apply to worlds, but ive been seeing them trying to work on performance and memory issues as best they can which is good.
some tips:
- set all settings to low in game
- set your vrchat window to the smallest size and keep it in focus
- safety settings
- hide nameplates to save some frames
- you can change how many avatars are shown & how many are shown within a certain radius of you :3
if you really need to, on windows you can use a registry tweak to force vrchat to stay at high priority (EAC wont let you change it yourself)
anyway yeah, vrchat kinda sucks in some ways
One of my friends told me a story how they were roleplaying Saul Goodman, but accidentally had a Pepsi man skin on, but everyone booed when he put on the Saul skin so he just ended up defending someone in fake court as Pepsi man
There genuinely needs to be an in depth psychological study on these people. I'm reading through the comments and it's incredibly gut wrenching to see how common it is for friends to "lose" other friends to VRchat. I had an ex a bit ago who spiraled into exclusively playing furry nsfw worlds, and his younger brother (who was also an adult) would literally spend at least 12 hours a DAY on the thing and sleep in his headset. It's truly depressing and horrible
I'm 11 minutes into your video and so far it's basically just been you describing... you know.... the internet. Every single gripe so far has been something you could apply to any other platform on the internet.
Many of the points made here make sense. There is a good part of the community, and of course there are parts that are bad. Pardon my adding of my experience, however I make content in VRC as well and have experienced so much. Most days it's fun meeting new folks and chat, or even going to cool worlds that have been created. Other times it can be a snooze fest of arguing, harassment and other horrible things. No doubt there are terrible sections of VRC. And that is an understatement. At the end of the day I was one of the lucky ones that has more good memories rather than bad. That doesn't eliminate some of the bad moments. Even after all of this I still do not regret meeting some of my greatest friends on there. Maybe some day VRC won't be as bad, we can dream.
Meanwhile I spent around 2 hours climbing Mt. Törött from Halo Reach, admiring all the decommissioned ships.
How do i get a shotgun in this game, just asking
TL;DW: VRchat is virtual reality's very own Second Life, with all the horror that entails.
I remember the first time I played VRchat and went along with some enlisted guy I met who had also just started playing. Within a couple of hours, his avatar had become a little anime girl and he fell into the beginnings of diabolic shenanigans (read: sexual headpatting). As for me, I decided to keep my buff Bulbasaur avatar (which I found while we were exploring a pokemon world of course), and got out of dodge once I saw where things were heading. I tried to take my enlisted buddy with me, but he refused; It seems he had already become enamored with it all.
VRchat is a place where the vulnerable go to become addicted to the worst forms of escapism, forms that lead only to spiritual death; It is also where predators go to prey upon said vulnerables. It draws you in with "haha funny virtual reality memes" and then tries to trap you into these terrible things. I wouldn't wish the depths of its evil upon my worst enemy, and I'm thankful to have only scratched the surface and fled. If you're in it, GET OUT! If you still draw breath you can escape it.
Thanks bro. We shall overcome its evil together as one. Lord help those people, man...
Funny thing is, I almost fell into that trap too. I got the game recently and checked it out, and I thought it’d be funny to go running around as a game character and just role-play as one for the jokes. As I was looking for avatars, I saw some really obscene content, and I got suspicions on the game. So I checked out reviews and warnings on the game, and figured that I needed to get out and delete the game ASAP before I go down the wrong path. Looking back now and seeing this video, I can tell I made the right choice.
@@McposhAi Yes, yes you did. Unfortunately, social games that rely on user-generated content and don't clamp down on pornographic material always wind up this way.
I have to unfortunately be blunt about this...
Your worse enemies deserve a horrible fate sometimes, it's called KARMA.
Yes, it can be very bizarre to witness. I remember those old Second Life trolling vids from long ago. Normal people vs. the deranged, and constant hijinks ensuing afterwards. It's funny on the surface, but it just becomes sad when you realize that they're disturbed individuals. When you realize that it's not them necessarily having fun, but trying to compensate for whatever they're lacking irl. That's when it becomes sad asf. To just see the fellow human behave like this. To see them give up and retreat into a false virtual paradise.
Not only does it establish a pipeline for the vulnerable, enticing them with great efficiency, it also establishes a pipeline for the outcasts. The bad kind of outcasts. The ones who know they're evil at heart, and full of insanity. It appeals to them too, and it gives them a space where they're tolerated. And then they share this space with all other kinds of people. It is exactly what those bad actors want. It gives them everything a person could only have nightmares of. It's not just spiritual damage, it's psychological damage too. All a person can do is just observe the consequences of its creation.
one of my first ever memories on vrchat was hanging out with one friend, and we were playing murder mystery and i saw this one guy who was 38 (according to his bio). i saw him approach a young kid who was 14 ( again, according to their bio), and i cant make this up but they literally start flirting with the young kid and i immediately noticed it. i took my friend aside and i told my him about it and he told me that it was, "normal," and that little experience set the tone for the game. i still play vrchat till this day and have a lot fun exploring worlds with friends, and while i dont see anymore adults approaching young children in worlds anymore i still remember what happened and i think it still happens till this day.
grooming is very normal in vrc and has been for years
Played vrchat once, big smoke was yelling at everyone in the minecraft world then gave me a lap dance, last I touched it
The way they all started yelling 11:31
i used VRC when i was young so i was heavily traumatized from things on there :(
was friend with a vrchat player turned out he was dating a 16 year old while he was 22 scary to think they really do live among us no one will know
I find ironic I find this video as I’m loading onto vrchat ☠️
i was NOT ready for the minecraft dog fading into the long night as the house decays.
I have also seen since VRChat came out on Oculus/Meta Quest where if someone is caught grooming minors or acting sexual towards them, they would threaten anyone who calls them out or threatens anyone who makes it public information if they were high profile in the VRChat space with harassment (ex. Death Threats, DOXXING/Swatting, Gaslighting, etc.)
I am glad in 2024 that their predatory behavior is finally being shined into the light for everyone to see publicly and those who support their behavior go quiet when the majority with functioning braincells and have a grasp of the real world wont take their sides either or the people who support these predators getting exposed themselves for the same thing or worse.
We've reinvented the reality TV genre. Truly innovative work.
I have a friend I catch playing this constantly. Non-stop. It’s honestly insane. I asked them once if they have a life outside VR chat and they said no.
Couldn’t tell if they were joking or not 🤔
I sat at my desk for a uncomfortable amount of time in silence, registering what i had just watched and heard. I sat their staring into the void and asking myself one question. Why.
I sounded mildly prepubescent at 13, so in response the whole lobby chased me around naked, this was in murder mystery 2 mind you. My fault for yelling and giving a reaction but what else do you expect from a barely teen who attended church and youth group every Tuesday?
That isnt your fault at all. Unfortunately that's what people will tell you after doing it though. And don't be fooled, they knew damn well you weren't 18.
Rec room a good time