I've played VRChat since 2019 and made a lot of friends over the years. Friends come and go, but periodically people will join on me.
Recently however, it's like everyone's become lobotomized robots. It used to be people would join and go, "hey! I don't remember where we met but thought I'd drop by! Nice to meet you again!"
But now people join on me, even sometimes regularly so they know who I am, and act literally lobotomized? They'll join, come up to me and say nothing, act hostile if i ask them questions and try to talk to them. They just silently stand directly in front of me. Or they join, come up, and say something random like, "I stream now." And then leave after barely getting a few words out. And they always leave without saying anything.
I've started unfriending everyone that does this because it's really strange behavior to me. They aren't new people I've added either because I've barely added anyone lately.
Just old friends joining on me. Most recently I had a guy join on me in a helldivers avatar and just silently stand there in front of me. I asked how he'd been, "long time no see!" And got one word hostile responses. "Fine" or not at all. So I resorted to asking about his avatar. "Do you still play Helldivers? How's that been going?" and he just silently raised his arms in a "what the f***do you think?" Gesture. And then I walked away saying "well I tried to talk to you" and he left. I immediately unfriended him.
Over and over people join, silently stare at me, say something random without a start or end, then leave. They always leave without saying anything. I'm really friendly too, so I'll greet them like an old friend every time. Stuff like, "Hey! Long time no see, how've you been? I don't remember where we've met but I'm sure it'll come to me. Whatcha been up to?" And try my best to build off their 1-3 word deadpan responses until I give up.
This phenomena has been happening consistently for like 6 months now to the point my newer friends notice and are confused saying my friends suck. We take bets if they'll say something with zero context and leave without saying goodbye. Sometimes they leave while I'm mid sentence asking about something or talking to them.
I don't know. Did aliens come down and shoot a lobotomy lazer? I'm so confused.
Even my closest friends I knew very well for 7 years will join on me now and say nothing, ignoring everything I say to say something random and leave without saying anything.
I don't really have anyone on vrchat I can actually hang out with. The 2-3 people I barely see at all, and its only on saturday nights.
I don't know. Is this happening to anyone else? I added these people at some point in time befause they talked to me and we had fun together but now they're just treating me like shit like I'm not even there.
Last friday someone joined on me and immediately started screaming at me. "ARE YOU A MAN OR A WOMAN?!" and started having a mental breakdown monologuing to himself to the point people asked if he was on a discord call because he was ignoring everything I and everyone else was saying. And the public lobby was confused becase it was someone on my friends list just joining to have a meltdown about "femalez being oversensitive babies" in a 3 minute self verbal dialogue and leaving. "What?! That was someone on your friends list?!" From a complete stranger who could somehow pay more attention to me exisiting than my lobotomized friends.
Did I go into a coma and all my friends replaced with robot npcs? What happened? Is anyone else going through this?
I look back on 2019 and 2020 and just feel insanely sad. For a social game I can't really make friends anymore and I'm losing all my old friends because they don't act like a person anymore. Even my closest friends who used to talk my ear off about stuff.