Speed friending was fun this year. It's a good event. It was also a good opportunity to talk to people and some of the conversations I had gave me a good bit to think about. 

I got to talk to a number of people who are from 4chan but really haven't gotten to know the rest of us. When I asked why, the answers generally fell into two general categories. The first is that they'd read a lot of the negativity in the thread and as a result didn't have a good opinion of vrg/vrchat. The second type of response I'd get to that question is that they'd tried joining a few weekend meetups but that it's hard to walk into a room of 60 loud people and force yourself into the community.
That stuff made sense to me. I think that if I were a newfriend, I'd feel the same way.

That stuff got me thinking, and also kinda collided with another thing I've been thinking lately. And that is now that we have /vrgg/, I think it's a pretty good time to start posting lots of vrchat stuff here again. I've kind of just been lurking for awhile because I didn't want to bother the non-vrchat people with vrchat content, but now that there's an alternate thread for people allergic to vrchat stuff to go to, that seems like less of a concern.
I think having more stuff in the thread about vrchat would help newfriends to have a positive and less intimidating impression of the community on the way in too. That would address some of the things I heard this weekend about how we're hard to approach.

So I guess the takeaway from this post is that I'm going to start to make more of an effort to post content in the thread and I hope others do the same. I know there are some screenshots servers and people avoid posting stuff like that in the thread, but I think it would make a positive impact if more content was posted here as well.

Anything that can be done to make meetups more accessible or less intimidating is something I'd be interested in hearing about too.
Thanks for reading!