Inkblitz 🔜 ???, MFF, ???
If you play #VRchat, avoid using custom avatars in public worlds for the next two weeks unless you want it to get ripped. An avatar ripper group is having a challenge to rip the most avatars over 16 days -.-
Aug 16, 2023 at 10:35pmWeb
Show threadTexelsaur 🔜 MegaplexAug 16, 2023

@inkblitz Almost all my private avatars have been put up on that site at this point. Ripping campaign or not, they're always on the prowl and there's plenty within our own communities complicit in aiding them. Public worlds not necessary.

I think it's disgusting, but my choices are pretty much live in fear of ever being myself or shrug it off.

If you really want to keep an avatar private, your best chance is to only ever use it in private instances with close friends, and hope none of them secretly betrayed your trust.

Show threadIkaniAug 17, 2023
@inkblitz avoid going to public worlds entirely. If they get your user ID they can get every avatar and world you've uploaded
Show threadCh'Ih-Yu 🐕Aug 17, 2023
@inkblitz I'm wondering if #VRChat could theoretically inject something deep into the avatars which is hard to detect, sticks with the model file across Unity projects and could be detected by the upload system as a re-upload which mandates a review of the offending user account.
Show threadKateYagiAug 17, 2023
@inkblitz
People could start equipping comically unoptimized models to fill up the ripper's hard drives.