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>people who complain about cliques envision as the perfect "social VR experience".
I don't complain much because I recognize the post-2010 internet for the wretched beast that it is, but I think a lot of people long for the 90s/00s style of socializing online. The pool of people on the internet then were STEM students/employees, nerds of every flavor (including fangirls and fujoshits), and the degenerate/demented. Your chances of meeting a potential friend (or gf!!!) on a forum or in a game were significantly higher. Now that the internet pool is much larger and more diverse, it has been diluted and finding friends takes more energy than your average dork/NEET/autist wants to (or even CAN) give, especially if they have memories of how good they had it in the 00s when normalfags weren't really around and normie-passing people were just happy to have an outlet to talk about stuff they liked that would get them called a faggot IRL.

This dilution has carried over into VR, but it's not nearly as awful as it's going to be when VR goes mainstream. I'd encourage those wringing their hands about how annoying it is to socialize to find their tribe as soon as they are able.