When I first started tracking this thread 3 years ago, vrg was an attitude and set of values about VR, nobody talked about "joining it", and tier lists just picrew's that spawned every couple of months, not a full blown mean girls botnet gossip engine.

It was the highest concentration of full body custom avatars that talked face to face instead of being so trapped in mirrors, and did a halfway decent job gatekeeping out women, children, and simp collecting ego-trannies. Lewd happened, but it wasn't folks only reason for getting online, and the notion of "dating" was self evidently retarded, and vrfu's were a joke until eventually the joke became real.
It's hard to say when the turning point was culturally, but it does seem to coincide with the trash thread over taking this one as the place of real soulful discussion about the weirdness and irony of the virtual experience.