to all the people in this thread who question themselves how many friends they actually met in vrc, do the following mental exercise:

step 1:

suppose that for whatever reason you are forced to make a new account in vrchat, and you're only allowed to add 10 people from your current friends list to that new account's friends list, and everyone else who was friended on your old account will have you blocked and you can never contact them again (not on discord either etc)

it doesn't need to make sense. just assume that for whatever reason you're stuck in this scenario

go over your friends list on the vrchat website and take your time to pick those 10 people

DO NOT READ STEP 2 UNTIL YOU COMPLETED STEP 1

step 2:

do the same thing, but now with 100 people instead of 10, but you're allowed to choose less than 100, and for each person less under 100 you get 50 bucks. so for example if you choose to only keep 20 friends, you get 80x50 = $4000 deposited to your account (but remember, all the people you left out, you can never talk to them ever again)

congratulations. you now know how many actual friends you made, and how many people on your list are just acquaintances which are actually worth close to nothing for you

(would be curious to see results people here get for step 2)