>>365128834
It's when people passively like you a little bit more because you're new and exciting. After that, you have to ride it out on your own skills and merit.
This phenomenon is particularly true when people come into vrg either being totally new to VR, or just new to VRChat in general. Someone who's already been around for a few years will instead just passively assimilate and "merge" into the group, mostly silently. No one tries to groom them unless they're noteworthy or use the same base model as someone else.