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The initial issue was first and foremost, there was not a lot of content for men in the anime style back when VRC was picking up, especially when compared to anime girls. Go to Skyrim's nexus, find all the hairs for women and find all the hairs for men and tell me which one gets more content. There's just no comparing how much time and effort there was into modular MMD assets for girls over boys; people liked women for the past 15 years, so they created 3D women for the past 15 years, and now we have 15 years of assets for anime girls.
Two, people approach pleasant looking things. Now, your gamerip of Isaac Clarke with customizable highlights and working guns might be neat, but you're not expressive and VRChat's a social game. Having social features, such as facial expressions, visemes, and all that makes social interactions easier. Personalities can carry an avatar but how many people even look that way when there's big tiddies over here?
Lastly, we come to a strange crossroads. There's a disconnect between what men find cool and what people want. People can tell you that they've gotten more attention when they switched to an anime girl, rather than staying on their fucking rad space marine. This is because culturally, more people are into anime and/or women than they are into sci-fi and big burly dudes in armor. Even moreso when communities are all using them. So not only are you not using something most people can relate to, you're the odd one out.