>>290130365
/vrg/ makes more sense if you consider it as a space shared by many different groups, rather than as a single group in itself. If you walked into a bar alone, you're probably not going to be greeted by anyone. Maybe after a very long time of frequenting the place, you might know a few people superficially. For the most part, groups will enter the bar as groups, and any intergroup communication will be because members of different groups know each other. There's no meaningful group identity created by visiting the bar that makes everyone in the place want to interact with anyone else there.

I guess it's a natural consequence of a sufficiently large group; it will inevitably fracture into smaller groups because it is more rewarding for everyone but the minority that do not end up in any group. I have no idea what the factor is that allows some to enter groups effortlessly, while others fail at every attempt.