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Hello. I’m Hiro from Full Body Tracking Lab.
I want to write about something that’s been bothering me. VRChat’s “creator culture.”
There’s a lot of talk about respecting creators in VRChat. Respect their work, follow their licenses, credit them properly. I agree with all of that.
But here’s what bugs me: nobody talks about respecting users.
Users are the ones buying avatars, attending events, populating worlds, and building the community that creators depend on. Without users, creators have no audience, no customers, no reason to create.
Yet the conversation is always one-directional: users must respect creators. When do creators start respecting users?
When a creator makes license terms deliberately confusing, that disrespects users. When creator communities gatekeep information, that disrespects users. When price increases happen without explanation, that disrespects users.
I’m not saying creators owe users anything beyond the product they sell. But the culture of one-sided reverence isn’t healthy. A healthy ecosystem has mutual respect flowing in both directions.
Users who spend money on avatars, who spend hours in worlds, who promote events to their friends — they deserve respect too. Not worship, not special treatment, just basic acknowledgment that the ecosystem is a partnership.
If we’re going to talk about culture, let’s make it a culture of mutual respect.
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