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>VR used to be an escape for social outcasts with particular hobbies, but now its your average normalfags pastime.

In terms of VRChat, public worlds are nothing like they used to be. When VRChat was new, there was a brief period where you could go to a public world and have interesting interactions almost every time. Partially because VR was a novel thing, but also because the game wasn't as popular. Quality has gradually declined and now you can't even go to a public world without finding loud children/teenagers.

>Dude what average normalfags show up to /vrg/ meetups

It depends on your definition of normalfag. These people are good at using memes to blend into 4chan culture, but their internal worldview doesn't truly deviate from the norm. Besides that, /vrg/ nowadays seems filled with loud people who just love to talk about themselves and never listen, while drowning out all the people who might have had something more insightful to contribute. Just seems like /vrg/ meetups have devolved into a pointless contest of dominance and social hierarchy, and that the meetups have attracted people who are after that sort of thing. My experience is that interactions with people on /vrg/ used to seem more meaningful, because both people implicitly understood the value of interactions through VR.