Great game, but VRChat is 100% what you make of it.

Do you want to play mini-games with strangers? Do you want gender euphoria? Do you want to roleplay as your favorite cartoon/anime characters? Do you want to make strangers uncomfortable and start debates? Play kereoke, go to drinking clubs, slowly accumulate life-long friends or be the wedge between online couples?

For me, I play in fandom worlds and got a small following of nice LGBTQ+ children and teenagers who like to chat with me as an older LGBTQ+ fandom person. They are kind, silly, and I love wasting time learning about what its like being a kid/teen in 2024. But I also made friends with an adult who added me on Discord and badgered me everyday to pay attention to him. Then made jokes about groping women, forcing me to unfriend him after two weeks of what I thought was a new friendship. Truly, there are so many great and awful people in this game, but the laughter and smiles I've gotten from the good ones have outweighed the bad.

Your experience could be very different. If you linger in highly populated locations with NO safety settings on, prepared to always be bombarded with slurs, children, and crashers. If you stick to a few specific worlds and increase your safety settings, your world will be quieter and lonelier, but safer. Explore, find your niche, and while the reviews about yucky people being in VRC are true, don't listen to people who claim VRC is "just ERP," or "just furries," or "just full of children," etc etc. VRC never has been just one thing- it is MASSIVE. Those reviewers are not exploring the full, gigantic scope of this place. If you feel "stuck" in VRC, go explore and learn something new! Because once you start finding "your people" it's the best!

Great game, but VRChat is 100% what you make of it. Do you want to play mini-games with strangers? Do you want gender euphoria? Do you want to roleplay as your favorite cartoon/anime characters? Do you want to make strangers uncomfortable and start debates? Play kereoke, go to drinking clubs, slowly accumulate life-long friends or be the wedge between online couples? For me, I play in fandom worlds and got a small following of nice LGBTQ+ children and teenagers who like to chat with me as an older LGBTQ+ fandom person. They are kind, silly, and I love wasting time learning about what its like being a kid/teen in 2024. But I also made friends with an adult who added me on Discord and badgered me everyday to pay attention to him. Then made jokes about groping women, forcing me to unfriend him after two weeks of what I thought was a new friendship. Truly, there are so many great and awful people in this game, but the laughter and smiles I've gotten from the good ones have outweighed the bad. Your experience could be very different. If you linger in highly populated locations with NO safety settings on, prepared to always be bombarded with slurs, children, and crashers. If you stick to a few specific worlds and increase your safety settings, your world will be quieter and lonelier, but safer. Explore, find your niche, and while the reviews about yucky people being in VRC are true, don't listen to people who claim VRC is "just ERP," or "just furries," or "just full of children," etc etc. VRC never has been just one thing- it is MASSIVE. Those reviewers are not exploring the full, gigantic scope of this place. If you feel "stuck" in VRC, go explore and learn something new! Because once you start finding "your people" it's the best!