21:51 That's kinda what happened to me. Just add on now being a furry lmao.

Ima be everything I can’t be irl lol

I've known all of this for a long time. It's really good that you made this video because the general public isnt as well versed into human psycology.

The psychology is that a bunch of men are closeted and have finally been exposed to the freedom of choosing to look like what they really want to look like.

I’m halfway through this video and I’m loving it. This goes DEEP! I absolutely love VR but haven’t tried VRChat. I’m so excited to try it!

Lol 3 years ago and now they are saying that something that can be possible and we got mixed reality and elon musk released his full Ai house assistant robots that can clean walk the dog and take care of your kids i think in another 4 years we will get something done lol

bald

nah ur wierd bro tf

ugh

lets not complicate things … if you are gay in the outside… you are going to be gay in the game or anywhere you go… you should use the game to correct youself represent a man.

This is role playing to the extreme

2003: There (nobody knows it) 2014: VRChat (everybody thinks it looks similar to either There or Second Life) 2016: Rec Room (everybody thinks it's a child version of VRChat) 2021: Horizon Worlds (everybody thinks it's a sotisficated and plagiarized version of Rec Room)

Hi Strasz, your videos are always a refreshing change from a lot of the other content I see. This is obviously well researched and you seem to avoid the stereotype narratives that are prevalent on this topic. I'm sure these are a lot of work to make. Thank you for all that you do.

Gender is not a huge part of identity it's a part of biology.

I'm one of the few guys who just wants to be a short guy in VR.

I remember something someone told a trans person once, that when they saw themselves in a mirror in VR chat as the other gender they felt deeply unsettled and HAD to switch back immediately, meanwhile people with gender dysphoria feel right and at peace seeing themselves in the mirror as their preferred gender. Gender dysphoria is very real.

I wish there was a virtual world that I could play. Roblox wants all of my information, VRChat requires a fairly beefy computer that I don't have, and Second life runs terribly on every system I tried.

honestly, VR Chat is for me like the future version of Second Life. But a bit different since I don't run around with a human avatar but rather with a furry avatar 😂 Also VR Chat is more accessible since I was able to run it on a 80$ PC which I put together for my grandma for her Email and Facebook browsing needs and the funniest thing is that I put Ubuntu Linux instead of Windows 10 and VR Chat was able to run in non vr mode without any huge issues

I’m at work, and peak over for the Tupper bit. “How many of you said this is Tupper and not Tuppers avatar?” Yup. Subscribed.

trans girl here. I have a very similar realization story and it's kind of funny. Basically the whole thing that started me going down the rabbit hole that is questioning my gender, was a FNaF roleplay. Me and my friends were doing some goofy non serious family style roleplay where two of my friends were the mom and dad, and me and my other friend were siblings. A bunch of really funny stuff happened but the important thing to note here was that i played the sister/daughter. Keep in mind i had zero gender questioning moments beforehand, i just felt like it would be fun and/or funny to use a small roxanne wolf avatar and be a whiney little girl. But something happened that i wasn't expecting, i actually *liked* doing this, being a girl, talking and acting like one, being referred to as one. I began using that avatar as my main after that point and eventually ended up spending the next several months teaching myself how to sound like a girl too. It took me months of constant doubt and questioning but i've finally come to the conclusion that i am without a doubt trans, and the idea of spending the rest of my life as a woman feels very comforting. Honestly, while i obviously don't think wearing a female avatar will change your identity much, maybe try putting one on and maybe even go by female pronouns in some places if you'd like (opposite if you're a cis girl), even if you think you're cis. There's a small chance you might discover something about yourself that makes you comfortable in your own skin. Or maybe you won't, who knows? But it's worth a try i'd say.

hey so, 3 years later, how's that gender thing been going for you?

It's unfortunate that in more recent times it feels we're starting to lose that "old internet" feel in VRC. Everything feels so ugh "moderated" compared to 2018 ever since they started shoehorning in more traditional social media features.

this is a good video but for the love of god i can hear you are a man , please stop trying to use the girl voice lol.

I want to get in there on my Quest 3.

I mean it's basically just like a persistent multiplayer lucid dream. Those first two steps alone are already possible. I imagine with future advancement in bci technology that we will be able to record dreams and even be able to allow for joining of two or more dreamscapes, likely using a code or something. There's probably even the possibility creating games specifically to play in dreams. Either way if shared dreaming doesn't become a thing at least we have dream recording to look forward to

Check out the world called Organism and the related Epilogue 1 and 2

Hi Strasz! 🙌 I'm a college student at Goldsmiths, London, and I'm very interested in mirrors in VRChat. I'm currently conducting personal research on how VRC mirrors affect player behavior. I'm hoping to randomly recruit 30 VRC players for a simple conversation experiment. However, due to some restrictions in the VRC community, it's challenging to recruit participants randomly and scientifically. I was wondering if I could get your help. Thank you! (Since I don't have your email or the ability to add you as a friend, I'm reaching out in the comments of this video about mirrors, hoping you'll see it.

I'm SaintlyMic in ActiveWorlds. I've been a Citizen since 1999. I created my first world in March 2022. My world is JESUSisGODtv. Here is my 2023 KZbin Video when my world was just over 17 months old. I've done a lot of building since 2023! kzbin.info/www/bejne/bXu7p2Wja8aBircsi=vqI01tnptzc-PFIx . . .

Not to be over looked is how under served the good male avatar is to the public. I spent most of my time as a banana, hotdog and skeleton because i really had to dig through hundreds of anime cat girls before i found a normal looking male avatar.

I loved Active Worlds. I had so much fun on that client in the 90s.

Thank you for making this! The video speaks to AMAB-me as there's something deeply troubling with the kind of world where cute is the precondition for vulnerable.

big philosophy guy here -- love your emphasis on the dichotomy between objectivity and subjectivity. think there's a lot of interesting meat on that bone in social dynamics

"What do you think when you see this image?" Hello, FBI?

this is slop

This actually got me back into VR after a year of not touching it.

this makes me wanna try to dj in vrchat now

I lived this world for so long. Going to scrapyards to find code builds... Fever dreams

22:32 The way he said "I wanna be cute too" is just- 😊

if I had *any* sort of 3d modeling skills (or... visual arts skills enough to learn 3d) i would strongly consider recreating a couple of my FFXIV characters as avatars 🥲

dysphoria can at times be cripplingly painful mentally and emotionally 😭

can you do it with side quest

Thanks for psoting this I was a citizen on Alphaworld for quite a while as a kid. This brings back so many memories. Everytime after school i would get on and spend hours on there playing. Went back on the other day to try and find my house, unfortunately i coudnt. Used to have some friends on there, to this day would only just like to meet them again and see wat they are up to.

I never got why a non-trans/femboy/etc would use as his internet face an anime girl. Why do that? For me, the ideia was to put some character relatable and aspirational, as much as I think there're good anime girls, they could never be aspiracional to me, ever. There's nothing there for me to use as an internet mask. Outside trolling or some kind of gender disphoria that naver made sense to me.

Interesting, I use SL a lot but something that achieved this in 1995, WOWWW, Visionary

right? why can’t they just be flipping Minecraft villagers or some crap.

This has been something ive been meaning to watch/listen to forever, really well done. Thanks so muxh for all the hard work you put into it

Amazing video!!! Just btw, Judith Butler uses they/them😊

Tbh, its cus good guy ones are hard to find

31 (3 years ago) you youngster... I'm 47, also spend some time in VRChat sometimes... Which leaves me with one question... If 31 is ancient in VRC.. What does that make me?

I was on active worlds from the mid 90s to very early 2000s. I went by PILMAN and my brother was Blaine. We ran the world Flood which was based on a Pokemon RPG. Lots of fond memories.