It's so frustrating, being in the middle of a deep conversation with someone and then a crasher joins the public world.

Its hilarious when the crashers crash themselves by missing and hitting a mirror.

a great way to check is by checking the particle and mesh count in the avatar stats. if any number is ridiculously high then its a crasher. great video btw. very underrated

You never stood a chance against peepee head, he's got the dedication

About a week ago, my friends and I were all in a public Black Cat. All of us got crashed. I managed to get back into the lobby that the crasher was in, and the reactions of the crasher and her friends were priceless. She was so upset that I was able to join again, and then tried making excuses that it was just an accident, and that she didn't mean to crash anyone, yet she stayed in that avi and continued to crash anyone who joined the lobby.

imagine ripping someones fun away just for being on the lower end of the game like bruh

I've actually spoken with quite a few crashers, even have one of them as a friend. A majority of crashers fire mass amounts of particles at you that you literally can't render them which causes you to crash, however there are actually more ways to crash. I was in the black cat one day and this guy comes up to me drops an item then asked me to pick it up, me not thinking anything was a problem proceeded to pick it up. My game froze instantly, leaving me unable to do anything. There are crashers that target specific platforms, I've literally been in a Murder 4 lobby with a player who crashed all the pc players even though they were a quest player. The way that one works is that they make a normal avatar, and for the platform they want to crash they completely mess it up - I don't exactly know what they do, but they change some stuff that shouldn't happen causing it to corrupt. My opinion on crashers is that they're annoying and really shouldn't be in vrchat, but people for some reason find it fun to mess up other people's time.

I absolutely despise those miserable human beings, because thanks to them people tend to slap safety settings on shaders/particles, and one of the greatest things to do in vrc is to entertain people with avatars based on stencils and shiet. You want to show folks around some magic, and they are all like UhHHh wHy aRE yOU HolDInG A huGe UntExturEd oBJeCt

Imagine a gun gale online type scenario where if a crasher crashes a player they also get “crashed” irl

On my first day of VR Chat, someone walked up to me and started changing into a horrible array of avatars, each one tanking my FPS and blazing with distorted sound effects. When he stopped, I was confused why he was angry that 'I was still there' and then he left me alone on the now empty server. I found out later what that encounter was... Not sure how my 6 year old laptop managed to survive that.

this was so nicely edited ! i was so happy to be apart of this

how to avoid crashers: Profiling

1:56 someone tried to crash me for having an anamorphic avatar on, that sucked the only way i could tell is that they said “sorry guys i have to kill the furry” and then my game began to lag intensely, but i didnt crash and managed to turn off their avatar the major hypocrisy is that they had a catboy avatar

reminds me of the time I accidentally created a model with over 2 billion polygons. I don’t even know how but that was an experience.

This video was honestly pretty amazing. The editing, the script work, and it still retained a good chunk of humor while still being educational on the issue, and giving advice on it all. For once, KZfaq actually recommended me something I liked.

OML NO THE WAY I WAS DYING IN THE BACK AT 12:27 , lemme tell ya i wheezed. It was a pleasure to be included in the video! thanks for listening to my ramblings :>

I remember my friend had a avatar stolen from her that was made into a crasher. It was her uni avatar (basicaly the unused hat in time character timmy but based on the program unity) and someone decided to take it, and make it have alot of shaders. Im still mad at whoever that crasher is for stealing a avatar in the first place...now she cant go into public worlds as uni cause people would run from her cause they think shes the crasher

I once encountered the so called „Quest 2 Crasher”. He pulled out an avatar and bam. I MADE A FRICKIN WHOLE REVIEW OF HOW BAD THE QUEST 2 PORT IS, but then i saw this video. I understand now. It’s not the Quest Port that’s bad, it’s just a crasher. Thanks for sharing this knowledge :)

Nice vod, just gonna add a few things here for the community. I used to be apart of the vrc community, I was part of many things, groups, gangs etc. Crashers are done through alot of means, especially for desktop, generally people use particle crashers which are one of the most common crashers, that is easy to remediate just by limiting particles, next would be shader crashers, these generally hits harder, like a truck some times. These are also ones that people use for mass world crashing, since they generally are pretty accessible and effective. Then we have exotic crashers which uses specific glitches, these can be like with dynamic bones, which is really hard to prevent, without needing to mod the game. Quest crashers generally, so far from what i have seen, cant target users like pc crashers, but they usually are done through (if i remember correctly) Dynamic bone crashers with somehow the bones fucking with one another. I dont fuck with the community anymore, so generally ill just lay this all out and doubt ill get targeted, but generally, you will find the high trust ranking users with some crazy exotic looking crashers which are usually shader based, and the public crashers 90% of the time would use particles. Its also most of the avatar creators that have the most crashers being that their more experienced, but general rule of thumb in vrchat, just show the minimum on peoples avatars and voice on in public worlds. And just dont fuck with large gangs of people, like the ones at the mirrors, their the most dangerous. Still crashers today are nothing like in the past, like around 2016-18 which we had some crazy ones which can end up BSOD peoples computers, Thank god that has been lost to the test of time.

There are users out there who are basically counter crashers, like if someone is confirmed a crasher they’d be put on a notice board in like a discord channel for players to go through, or people can straight up ask these counter crashers to go after user XYZ until they just straight up give up entirely and leave the world or the game as a whole. Basically they’re kinda like the Crasher cops

One of my favorite stories of encountering a crasher was these 3 kids. Now I am a Furry, I don't hide it, it's not shameful I don't really 'come out' as one because it's just a hobby but the stigma persists even though I don't get how pea brains find it so offensive.... never the less... I was facing off against these 3 dudes who were harassing me telling me to kill myself, slit my wrists, how my father never loved me (he didn't but that's a different story lmao). One of them swapped into an avatar that pinged one of my own personal detector criteria: "He said, hold on I got this (N-word)". So I blocked his avi, but kept his voice on to see what he was going to do. He proceeded to have his friend clone his avi to try and crash me, I let it load enough to favorite it then blocked his, and while the the third was cloning the avatar to try it I blocked his then proceeded to swap to it staring the three of them down and one by one targeted them with their own avatar crashing the whole lot. I then unfavorited the avi cause i'd be tempted to use it if I had access to it and I moved on with my day. Tip to crashers.... don't try and avatar share infront of your victim.... it doesn't work too well especially if they are smart. I frankly don't think the avatar they had was even enough to crash me... it looked like some kind of quest crasher to me.

Thanks for the tip about disabling particles and shaders. God, I get crashed so much and absolutely hate it

nice video :)

The editing is awesome on this! Awesome to see some cool new work coming out of the community!

I have been crashed maybe 2-3 times on Quest, avatars are all disabled by default unless they're a friend. The crash itself wasn't a laser or sword, and I don't recall speaking with a crasher, the only one I saw was mute . I had to restart my game, and everything went back to normal.

I’m a quest player, and I managed to outcrash a crashed. I’m proud of myself to this day.

KZfaq Algorithm blessed me with this piece of art. Great editing, great topic, great execution. Subscribed, clicked the bell, gave a like, and also left a comment. I will be back for more.

"If someone tried to crash you, return the favor by crashing the server.: - a good person who returns favor

When I was on quest I thought the thing often causing my game to crash was just too many people and too much lag in a public world. What I didn't realize is how many horrible people actively target quest users. Since I've gotten PCVR, I haven't gone a single huge world session without seeing all of the quest users crash before my eyes, all at once. It's even more frustrating than crashing yourself. Instead of blaming it on the game all you can do is sigh and frustration and watch as the person you were having a meaningful conversation with gets infinity snapped out of existance. I've been lucky enough to not have been crashed on PC yet, but it saddens me how many PC players do it to innocent quest users.

Man it really kills the vibe when everyone’s having fun and boom we get crashed💔

Hello, Unity editor user for 7 years here If you would like to largely avoid the crashers, u can do so by not hiding the avatar, but hide the "particle system" for non-friends what they commonly use are actually very easy to make sadly since the SDK doesnt limit that part of avatar element I wont go on detail on how to make them, but its their particle subemitter and layered collission, thats why they avoid swinging it around in order to not hit their own capsule collider.

When Avatars 2.0 was released I went through a portal that was in the official home world and put on an anime girl avatar, which put a video overlay on everyone's screen of a man ejaculating and defecating. It's not a crash but it's a type of griefing. I can't believe that sort of content would be linked to by the official VRChat home.

Throughout my three months of playing vr chat, I can agree, there are a lot of crashers. I’ve gotten crashed 5+ times before in the black cat.

Man, alright this happened recently.I’m a quest user, and I was in diluc’s tavern the other day. I was just hanging out some people. I decided to walk away for a second because I wanted to switch my avatar while trying to avoid lagging any quest users since switching avatars tends to lag out other quest users for a second. while I was switching, my screen started shaking, then it bought me to the three dot screen. So I was like “Ok, well someone probably crashed me, oh well.” But then my oculus, just blacked screened. It couldn’t detect anything with my controllers at all. It would go into a constant pattern of black screen, blinding white screen (there wasn’t like any text or anything) then to the Boundry set up screen, but no pop up would appear at all and it didn’t pick up my hand movements or my controllers. This caused me to need to hard restart my device since it just wouldn’t work at all. I genuinely thought my headset was done for and that I needed to buy a new one. But it works now and I’m trying to not just show everyone’s avatars.

i cant believe you made a vid about crashers without talking about the vrchat gangs lmaoo

such an underrated vrtuber, love your vids Twice! earned a new sub

2:44 the combination of the random name and boss music pushed this scene to top tier

Great video , I love how you do interviews with people. I hope there's somehow a patch against it eventually

I literally know the origins of crashers. the first-ever crasher made.

This video was greatly executed and the editing was top notch! Keep up the excellent work my dude!

I feel like the best weapon against crashers is their own. I would just equip a little kirbo sword and be like *hey get bent bud*

My pc is so bad they dont need a crasher to crash me

I was just vibin in a random lobby when some guy came up to me and said "stay away from my daughter" then crashed me, i never seen him or his daughter before.

It’s quite fitting that I just got this cause yesterday while playing Town of Salem in VRC they actually crashed all the lobbies in it

i remember i was in the black cat one time, minding my own business, then i heard a very loud robotic screeching noise, and then my game's fps dropped to about 7 frames per minute. somehow, through determination, and sheer f***ing will, i managed to turn on safe mode and escape without crashing. still not sure how they do it like that but that's lowkey interesting ngl

Man I remember the first time I met a crasher, this was years ago so I don't exactly remember if this was before or after ranks appeared in VRChat, I was also a desktop user at this time. I loaded into The Box instances as at that time most people stayed in The Box, The Pug, and the presentation world where you can draw. I was minding my own business in the box and hopping in convos for fun, at one point this random voice spoke to me (the dude was invisible so I didn't even know he was talking to me nor right next to me) and he was calling out to me, I didn't know he was talking to me and starting saying things like "I'm talking to you bitch" and what not and it kinda shocked me for someone to be so rude to me for no reason, I replied saying "Excuse me? That's kinda rude of you to call me that." and he kept going on and on about how he was right to call me a bitch and what not and I kept arguing back because he was calling other people a bitch for no reason, eventually he got annoyed of me and decided to crash me, I know most crashers use lasers of some sorts but this dude used some sort of pill shaped object that he covered my avatar's face with, my pc was pushing through to make it out alive and not crash so I was able to catch a glimpse of the pill shaped object. Thankfully I never saw a crasher again after that but I still keep my guard up just in case. If anyone else has experienced being crashed with a pill shaped object I would like to know your story because I've never heard anyone encounter this kind of crashing method and I wanna know if this is just another common crash method or not, plus this could let other know of other methods being used to crash players.

My friend and I went to the Black Cat once and it was full of Quest users (we were desktop). And then all of a sudden, everybody froze except us. I didn’t know it was a crash at the time, I just thought we used THE WORLD or something. And then like some movie, a quest user hobbles towards us and was like “YOu DiD thIS DidN’T YOu!?” before he too succumbed to the crash. Super surreal.

I clicked cuz of the thumbnail, then stayed cuz I saw cute beidou things, then stayed again for the content. I am now subscribed. I love that woman.

Pretty neat video, I like your editing. Keep up the work man. Been part of VRC for a while and there surely isn't a reliable method of getting away from crashers besides private lobbies only. But even those can be exploited if a person has the right tools so, VRChat safety is just really bad.

I was crashed recently but I am really happy that I managed to get him and all of his friends on video. Long story short him and his friends lost their accounts. Now I have everyone's avatars hidden so I can't be crashed anymore. I have the video up of catching them in the act.

So this is the reason i get a funny red lazer on my screen for a split second and crashing

I would personally pretend to be friendly with a crasher and give them a friend request just so I could repeatedly crash them and make them believe it wasn't me. A taste of their own medicine.

Today was my first day on vrchat, sadly they didn’t know that I had a beefy computer and they crashed themselves

Imagine being such a sad excuse for a person that you crash people because of their choice of headset, or lack there of. Also I love how crashers keep getting salty vrchat implementing ways to prevent them from crashing the game for people,such as the vrchat camera keeping the mirror crashers from causing crashes. Oh yeah a new way for quest crashers was for a time using mirrors to hit the quest users.

You know it’s a good day if twice uploads a video

It's funny seeing a grown adult who's social and confrontational skills are so underdeveloped that they have to rely on kicking you out of their presence

Lol as a quest 2 user i have my share of crashes 😂literally happened to all my friends today

I've been crashed before. By people who have such powerful avatars that even if you turn off their avatar it can still crash you. My whole pc has been kinda restarted by crashers. And yes I have myself crashed people before. People that are annoying and that are being mean to my friends and people I talk to. Other than that. I dont crash people just for the fun of it. The crasher that I have for pc can crash me as well. But it worth it if I crash someone that is harassing my friends or the people I talk to. One time I was with my friend playing around and trolling with people just for the fun of it. Then there was a guy using a client with a crasher. The crasher that I have now is the crasher that the dude used to crash me. It didnt really crash my friend. It just brought him down from like 142 frames to like 20 frames. But it crashed me. Cuz I dont have that good of a graphics card. So what I would say is. For pc players watch out for avatars that have a idle that kind of swings its arms around and the music in the background when they join. Thanks you for reading my whole paragraph text lol.

😭the finger gun killed me

Crashers really put the CRASH in Crashout.

This is a really good video, thankfully i dont get crashed that much and i have default safety sets. Also it might be because i only play once every 3 months.

Tbh it seems like it'd be funny, like how on discord sometimes people will ban each other as a joke, then unban instantly. Obviously this doesn't apply to assholes that join random worlds and crash random people, but for example if two people started fighting and one of them just pulls out a gun, says "parry this you filthy casual" and crashes them, I would probably be laughing pretty hard.

I think I joined VRChat in a time where crashes were somewhat more common. They’re kinda annoying, but it could be worse I guess… no permanent damage has been done to my computers that came from them yet, so that’s good.

The counter crashers faction. Be guarding black cat now

We accatly Had a crasher a few Weeks ago on the German Servers. He was playing realy loud Musik and Said some realy Rude Things. I have never used an Crasher avi in my entire live. But If i would guess why they use it then cause of the Reson that it gives them a Feeling of Power. Psychologigly they are basicly some attebtionseeking Childs (eaven If they are 20). I meet one Person wich Had a crasher but never used it before. He Had It that He could Crash other crashers. Crasher Avatars should be banned in VRChat. They Rune the experience. And the people how Crashes for fun should be banned.

That's really odd tbh most crashers from my experience are quest users. And avatars arnt the only way to crash people. Clients are unstoppable unless you yourself have a client to not make you crash.

imagine having friends in vr chat and not getting blocked instantly because you just exist, couldnt be me

yes I've had crasher experience (on both sides). usually used for good like when someone joins a lobby and all inhabitants get irritated by that person they usually get removed (by my friend cause i have none anymore). So they usually get clapped out of the lobby. I'll warn now that I and my friends use Order 66 as a code to crash and i encourage others to do it too so that if someone hears it they can block the avi

love the use of ultimate cutie and the emotes they crack me up

hey bro, you are truly an amazing person. You put hard work into your videos and everything. I hope you will blow up one day and keep up the hard work

BROOO THE SUPER MARIO GALAXY MUSIC LMFAOO

this is some good vrc content i must say like its just wholesome vrc content and not some thirsty streamers posting their most lewd clips on here love it

Now. I usually have avatars just hidden by default and tend to enable them again when someone seem's pretty chill since I've had crasher problems in the past. This leads to now hilarious moments when I DO find a crasher and haven't unhidden their avatar yet especially if they don't catch on. Because it leads to points of some random person asking if I'm good because they're watching someone relentless try to crash me probably because I said something to them and I'll turn around and a default hidden avatar will be very furiously pointing at me in vain. It's very amusing.

300+ hours in vr chat here and i have never once encountered a crasher, even though I have never blocked any person or anyones avatar. may the gods of luck continue to favor me

my computer has no such weaknesses, crashers are nothing but lightshow to me

only fun thing about crashers is when both you and a friend have one and you both gotta get off for the night so you just fight to the death

2:05 I was playing VRChat and a guy Joined my game, and said “Hey Glitch you wanna see a bad Glitch?” (My Name has the Word Glitch in it) I wasn’t using my Mic so I just Shook my Head rapidly and Raised my Hands to indicate I mean no harm, I saw his Skin change for 2 Seconds and the Crash was so bad, I couldn’t turn my Headset off, I just waited till it died

Bro, I thought it was like a WMD, I didn't realize you could straight up assassinate someone

One time, a crasher joined my world, crashed all my friends, then called me a "dog-fucker." I sure do love a good ol crasher dawg fr

I remember the time where a crasher, not only crash my game, but my entire laptop, to the point where I had to do a full system restore and have all my files deleted. After that, I kinda had trust issues with VRChat for about a year and a half. But I'm starting to get back on it again with these tips in mind. Thank you!

Me as a crasher i usually do it when someone gets me to my peek such like *calling me the n word, screaming/yelling at me, or if they are being rude to others.

Yeah I use an avatar hider mod which means all avatars are hidden for me when at a certain distance this includes the gray robot and keeps my frames pretty stable

I saw a crasher on friday. They crashed an entire lobby of quest users in Murder 4, and the only ones left were me and a desktop user that joined moments later...

Its mostly just a bunch of squeakers that crash you because they cant yoink an avatar from you.

I’ve only ever publicly been to the black cat and have (Thank god) never met any crashers and I met this great group of people and now we chill on a movie world pretty frequently

You all have seemed to forget about the magical and fun *clients*. It has something called event 7, event 10, and instance lagger, aka, game go bye bye lmao.

This is why some people pay for clients with anti-crashes built in honestly

So I was just chilling in a vrchat hub and then saw grey cylinders in the air for a short second so I blocked everyone avatars later turned them back on, then my quest 1 became unresponsive it wasn’t until 3 minutes later did my headset function again

There is a very dangerous avatar for quest players, where you can’t open ur menu, meaning u are stuck as that avatar. The only way to switch out is to have a avatar word set as your home so you can change from a avatar. It’s name is quest princess, beware

If I were to ever get a crasher avatar, I would use it for "public service." Such as if someone is like bullying someone, or if someone is stuck like the one girl said.

I have been lucky enough to not run into any crashers in vr chat yet but I tend to just keep to myself most of the time.

Imagine if there was an avatar that when someone uses a crashing weapon against you, it just reflects back to them and they get crashed.

My first encounter with a crasher was just one of those highly detailed avatars and their avatar went into a puff of smoke with bright lights and bat particle effects, to add onto it they were blasting some god awful phonk music,

I just use true-shader anti-crash. Automatically blocks the assets from loading, by using a long list of known crashing shaders, also works against crashers that still works even if the avatar is hidden. The last type that nothing will work against are the client-based crashers. You can find these when you are in a lobby that does not allow "risky actions" which are mods that let you fly, run fast, and noclip. These can only be enabled if the world-creator opts-in to it. You will usually find them flying around at the speed of sound on an avatar not made by them. They also come in the form of two visitor-ranked users stacked on top of each other, in order to both prevent you from blocking/reporting both at the same time, but also to improve the effect of their crasher.

Our story: My best vrchat buddy god a new skin he cloned from someone, he had no idea what all the toggles do, but one of them just instantly crashed everyone in the loby, everithing got bright and we all crashed.. we were all friends tho so when we came back we discussed what happened and figured out he accidentally got a crasher avatar.. Checking on his avatars specs it had an absuuuurd amound of particles and stuff witch is a major red flag for us now! He never used that avatar again..

so turns out crashing guns work IRL too

you know what i do in awkward situations. I end them by leaving lol

ok, so i MIGHT have accidentally crashed an entire server by using an absolutely ginormous monke

Surprisingly despite the fact that I was both a deskie and a TTS user while playing VRChat, I never actually personally got crashed. Guess I just got a cool friend group. Did know at least 1 or 2 people that had crashers though.