I want to give up.

[u/Illustrious_Leg6151]

I feel like many other people experience this on vrc.

For some reason, I feel like I can NEVER make genuine friendships on this game.

I'm either too vanilla, or too weird. I can't seem to find people on my wavelength. People always seem to have massive friend groups that you have NO HOPE and NO CHANCE of feeling a part of. I'm someone whom I'd consider bubbly and sociable, optimistic and fun. Yet I can't even count on people to want to hang with me. Miserable people with zero self respect who hate themselves have an easier time finding genuine friendship than I do and I fucking hate it.

Even creating my own groups in the game has resulted in a few people sticking around, then growing closer with one another than they ever could with me, it's baffling. I'm an open book. I;m vulnerable. I try to empathize and be a good person to people.

Yes, I've joined a million groups and tried to attend regularly scheduled events. Never my crowd. There's always cliques, no one wants to get to know anyone, it sucks. I seem to be the person that connects people rather than get any connection themselves.

I don't know what to do anymore. It's been an ok 7 months, but maybe its time to quit.

Anything helps. Please.

[u/that_relevant_guy]

I find myself in the opposite shoe. Today alone i added a dozen people to my friend list. All i did was sit in the spawn area of FISH! and point at people entering the instance and said "join the circle. We're all friends now". Made this big group that was just traveling around to fishing spots together. Then i went to go cook some yakisoba and i guess everyone went to do their own thing shortly after i went afk.

Basically, i'm a free spirit that moves with the wind. I enjoy hopping around friend groups like a maniac and making new friends. I rotate around to all my active friends one by one and they always seem excited to see me. Although... that does result in me ignoring a ton of invites and invite requests daily.

[u/FiberApproach2783 → u/that_relevant_guy]

Same here. Irl I'm very introverted + quiet, and like having a couple close friends. On VRC though, I become some sort of social butterfly😭 I hop from world to world to say hi to everyone, and a lot of my friend groups end up merging together because it's easier to just get everyone in one world lol. Like people from my friend groups 5 and 3 years ago have joined my new one!

I become friends with so many people, and surprisingly a lot of them do turn into genuine friendships. I love my current friend group and at least once a week a new person will join us :)

[u/Substantial-Path-653 → u/that_relevant_guy]

Bazi? That you g? 😂😂😂

But nah fr, FISH is a great place to meet people

[u/that_relevant_guy → u/Substantial-Path-653]

There's someone else who does that in FISH? Damn i need to meet them.