Identity, Gender, and VRChat (Why is everyone in VR an anime girl?)

Alt title: Seriously though, why is everyone so cute on this program

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Index:
0:00 Introduction
4:56 Chapter 1: The Basics
17:28 Chapter 2: The Community
28:11 Chapter 3: Anime Girls
37:02 Chapter 4: Programming Socks
45:50 Chapter 5: M E N
54:39 Chapter 6: Conclusion
58:27 Credits

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References:
Alexis Hieu Truong, “Framing Cosplay: How 'Layers' Negotiate Body and Subjective Experience through Play“
Candace West, Don H. Zimmerman, “Doing Gender”
Chateau, L., “’Damn I Didn’t Know Y’all Was Sad? I Thought It Was Just Memes’: Irony, Memes and Risk in Internet Depression Culture”
Dan Bilsker, Jennifer White, “The Silent Epidemic of Male Suicide”
Emerald L. King: “Cosplay, crossplay and the importance of wearing the right underwear”
Judith Butler, “Gender Trouble”
Judith Butler, “Undoing Gender”
M.V. Sanchez-Vives and M. Slater, “Transcending the Self in Virtual Reality”
M.V. Sanchez-Vives and M. Slater, “From Presence to Consciousness through Virtual Reality”
Michael J. Player, Judy Proudfoot, et al., “What Interrupts Suicide Attempts in Men: A Qualitative Study”
Nicolle Lamerichs, “Strange than fiction: Fan identity in cosplay”
Paolo Frassanito and Benedetta Pettorini, “Pink and blue: The color of gender”
Rhaina Cohen, Shankar Vedantam, Tara Boyle, “Guys, We Have A Problem: How American Masculinity Creates Lonely Men”
Shane Anderson, “Cosplaying Gender: Performing Anime in the Limelight of the Gender Spectrum”

Other content referenced:
https://twitter.com/VRChat/status/1350271716518481920
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo7o2LYATDc
http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Phantom_touch

Suggested additional reading:
Cristina Montemorano, “Body Language: Avatars, Identity Formation, and Communicative Interaction in VRChat”
Leng, Rachel Hui Ying, “Gender, Sexuality, and Cosplay: A Case Study of Male-to-Female Crossplay”

Music:
Oh You - Rootkit (With permission from Monstercat)

Thank you to everyone that helped with this video -- and for everyone that watched it. Genuinely.
#vrchat

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