>>381133001
You need about 6 hours of interacting with people and accepting/sending friend requests to leave visitor rank and get upload privileges, It won't take you long, just tell people you're new, be friendly and do some exploring.

It's that way because VRChat is a free to play game with user uploaded content that can be used to crash or otherwise abuse people, so it needs a little bit of gatekeeping of new accounts to prevent constant ban evading.

You can skip the wait and rank up instantly if you spend $10 on VRC+, but it's not worth it. Just do some stuff.