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The internet is full of beautiful freaks. It is, undoubtedly, one of its greatest virtues. The enshittification of any given website or social media platform can be measured by the growing ratio of non-freaks to freaks to which you are exposed. If your feed is wall to wall with factually accurate celebrity news and starry-eyed pregnancy announcements from people you know in real life, then I’m sorry to say that platform simply isn’t doing its job. If your feed is full of mutant-looking Twitch streamers and groups of morbidly obese American ladies rolling up to a Texas strip club on a fleet of Rascals, however, then it is functioning perfectly. 

Existing squarely in the latter category is VRChat—a virtual reality online hangout for misfits and oddballs, which has gained a lot of traction for producing an endless stream of “crash out” videos from people who claim to suffer from a new kind of internet disorder, something they call........

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