>>359039369
this is nice and all except, as a popular person, I went ahead to test this, by making a new account in vrc. I told no one about this account, and avoided any people I already knew if I ran into them, and just tried to meet new people, out of a starting point of being a complete nobody.

within less than a month, my new account was already what people would call "popular". i.e. get several join requests every time I log on, people greet me when I walk into certain instances, getting DM'd on discord out of nowhere regularly and being invited to hangouts and events or private stuff.

it's impossible to make friends without having something in common with someone else. I think the reason I'm able to make friends quickly is because
1. I'm very quick to give up on others. i.e. if I talk to someone, and within the first 15 minutes I realize we don't really like doing the same things, I just stop talking to them and go talk to the next person.
2. I actually like trying out all sorts of different things, so being open to various stuff increases my pool of "potentially has interests in common" people

but that's it. it's not some secret chad power that autistic people can't have. you literally just need to have hobbies, talk to a lot of people, and don't waste your time on the wrong places. you can't force someone who has no potential to be your friend to suddenly be your friend. instead, keep roaming around and find the right people.

"but there are no right people, nobody likes the same stuff as me". you're not that special of a snowflake. if all you like is playing minecraft, tell people how much you like minecraft, you'll eventually run into someone who likes it too and then you'll suddenly spend 50 hours together on a minecraft server and will become good friends. "just be yourself" works. shocking truth