Welcome to VRChat, a platform and online community where you can be anyone, create anything, and interact with people from all over the world. Every experience you’ll have inside VRChat is unique, probably a little weird, but definitely enjoyable and even inspiring.

All of these experiences are possible thanks to our amazing community and the guidelines they’ve followed to make VRChat a fun and safe place for everyone. As a member of our community, we request that you follow these same guidelines.

Individuals who fail to follow these guidelines are subject to account moderation. VRChat Moderation will take action based on its discretion in gray areas. Moderation action taken in-app will often result in action taken against accounts on other VRChat forums, such as the VRChat Discord, the VRChat Ask message boards, and other online portals.

The guidelines outlined below are not an exhaustive list. View our Terms of Service for more information.

Age Requirement

You must be 13 or older to use VRChat services.

Intolerance

We do not permit:

• Hate speech, including language, symbols, and actions.

• Discrimination towards spiritual beliefs, gender, sexual orientation, sexual identity, disability, and/or any other personally identifying factors.

Harassment

We do not permit:

• Repeatedly approaching an individual with the intent to disturb or upset.

• Going through other individuals and channels such as social media to continue to harass an individual after being blocked.

• Reporting maliciously on our mod report form.

Inappropriate Content

• User names, display names, and the content of a users profile must abide by our Community Guidelines and Terms of Service.

• Live-streaming, advertising or publicly sharing content that is sexually explicit in nature or simulates sex acts is not permitted. Doing so may result in moderation action being taken against your account up to (but not limited to) banning of the offending user account depending on the severity of the act in question.

• When publishing content to VRChat, the author of the content is responsible for all other content directly linked within their own content. Any linked content must not violate the Community Guidelines. This includes (but is not limited to) portals to other worlds, avatar pedestals, downloaded images, video, and audio.

  • Check all content that is accessible from your own content.

  • We recommend obtaining permission and informing the author of the linked content that you are including it in your own content.

  • Ensure that you trust the creator of any content that you link from your own content.

  • Incidents involving this guideline will be judged on a case-by-case basis.

• Pornography & nudity is not allowed.

• We do not permit political or religious figures and symbology. Civil discourse is permitted in private spaces where all participants consent to discussion.

Impersonation

We do not permit:

• Impersonation of a VRChat employee.

• Falsely identifying yourself as another individual or group.

Disclosure of Personal Information

• Also referred to as “doxxing”, disclosing an individuals personal information will result in immediate account termination and actions leading up to alerting local authorities.

• “Personal Information” includes (but is not limited to) personally identifiable information such as name, address, phone number, other online handles, social profiles, or real life pictures

• Refrain from “callout” threads on VRChat forums or discussion boards. “Naming and shaming” will not be tolerated. If you have an issue with an individual, please send us a moderation report.

Modification of VRChat App or SDK

You may not:

• Modify any part of the VRChat client or SDK. This also extends to any unauthorized 3rd party tools that interact with the client.

• Create cheats, cracks, bots & exploiting bugs in the client or SDK.

• Disrupt or interfere with the experience of VRChat users, including disruption of VRChat servers. This also includes attempts to decipher any transmissions to/from the VRChat servers.

• Upload or attempt to distribute files that contain viruses, corrupted data, or malicious software in the VRChat app or through associated external communication software such as Discord.

• You may not mine or collect unauthorized information from VRChat using unauthorized 3rd party software.

You may report exploits via our Moderation Report Form. Responsible disclosures of security issues will not result in moderation action being taken against the reporter’s account.

Asset Reverse Engineering, Stealing, Extraction, or "Ripping" Content

You may not:

• Reverse engineer, steal, extract or rip content from VRChat.

• Use OR redistribute content that has been reverse engineered, stolen, extracted, or ripped from VRChat.

  • Content in this context is either content generated by VRChat OR by other users.

• Doing so will result in a permanent ban from VRChat on the account that said content is found.

Avatar Modifications

When creating or modifying your avatar, your avatar must not:

• Contain features or elements constructed to mislead other users about functionality of VRChat.

• Hide, obstruct, add/remove elements from, or affect/modify the appearance of the VRChat UI (such as nameplates).

Solicitation

You may not market, promote, advertise, or solicit unauthorized products or services within VRChat or official forums.

VRChat Accounts

Do not share your account information with others.

Do not provide false information or intentionally hide information when creating an account with VRChat.

"Role-playing" is not an excuse for violating the community guidelines

Lots of users enjoy roleplaying in VRChat. While roleplaying, the Community Guidelines and Terms of Service must still be followed.

Hate Groups

Creating and being involved in a group that is based on or advocates discrimination or harassment is not allowed. We will aggressively pursue maximum moderation action toward group leadership / members as well as disbanding such groups.

Evading Bans

Evading bans is prohibited and will result in account suspension leading up to termination.

Account Suspensions & Termination

It is the responsibility of VRChat users to be aware of the Community Guidelines and Terms of Service. Our moderation team will determine the length of suspensions on a case by case basis. Most cases will go through an escalation of increasing lengths of suspension, ultimately resulting in account termination upon repeat violations. Extreme cases will result in immediate account termination.

How to report violations of the Community Guidelines

Please contact our Moderation team via our Moderation Report Form. We appreciate your efforts to help keep VRChat a safe place for everyone.

Moderation Appeals

If your account has been subjected to moderation action, you may appeal the action by contacting our Moderation team.

Appeals for moderation actions should be sent via our Moderation Report Form. A response will only be given to successful appeals.

VRChat Team Presence

When encountering a VRChat employee in the app, please keep in mind that our employees often come in to relax and hang out with the community. Please respect their free time and treat them as you would other community members.

All communication from the VRChat Moderation Team will be via email from the “vrchat.com” domain, or from our helpdesk ticketing system accessed at https://help.vrchat.com. VRChat Moderators will never directly interact with users in the VRChat application, and will not use any other method of communication (instant messaging, chat programs, etc) to contact users.

VRChat employees will never ask for any personal information outside of official email channels of communication from the vrchat.com domain.