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You're right, nothing much interesting happened in 2017 except for making friends who stuck around for 2018 to blow up. Unless you were one of the people who used 2017 to figure things out, make cutting edge game content, and now work for VRChat, of course.
I think people backdate it to 2017 because 2018 was a huge population explosion and streamer boom so it makes them feel less special to admit that they had the same experience as everyone else.