Community Guidelines

VRChat is a platform and community where you can be anyone, create anything, and interact with people from all walks of life. You will encounter one-of-a-kind experiences that are fun, uplifting, off the beaten path, and potentially inspiring.

All of these experiences are possible thanks to our amazing community. The Community Guidelines (“Guidelines”) we follow make VRChat a fun and safe place to reside in.

In these guidelines, we want you to understand two main things:

Don't do things that will hurt or harm other people. Don't act in ways that would upset people, cause them trouble, or disturb them.
Keep private things private. If you have content that might be sensitive, intimate, or provocative, keep it in private spaces with consenting adults.

The Terms of Service (“Terms”), available at https://hello.vrchat.com/legal, govern VRChat and all activities within it. These Guidelines are part of the Terms, intended to expand and explain certain parts of them in greater detail.

We reserve the right to:

Maintain sole and final discretion to interpret these Guidelines
Enforce these Guidelines on a case-by-case basis
Revise the guidelines at any time to keep VRChat safe for everyone

The Terms of Service are the final word, and the Guidelines are meant to help you understand how we expect you to behave in VRChat.

If you're looking for guidelines governing content creation in VRChat, check out our Creator Guidelines.

General Guidelines

Treat people how they want to be treated. Be curious, respectful, and understanding.
In order to use VRChat or VRChat-provided services, you must be 13 years of age or older.
If you are between the ages of 13 and 17, you must get permission from your parent or guardian before using VRChat.

Only one person should use each account, and the birthday provided during registration must be truthful and accurate for the user of the account.

1. Adult Nudity and Sexual Content

Do not share sexually explicit or provocative content or paraphernalia.
Do not solicit or harass others for sexual activities or services.
Do not promote or engage in non-consensual sexual conduct.
Do not promote or share non-consensual intimate imagery (“NCII”). NCII sharing is the act of sharing intimate images or videos of someone, either on or offline, without their consent.

2. Hate, Violence, and Endangerment

Sexist, racist, hateful, or discriminatory language, behavior, iconography, groups, or content is never permitted in any form. We do not tolerate intolerance.

Do not attack or discriminate against a person or a community based on attributes such as race, ethnicity, caste, national origin, sex, gender identity, gender presentation, sexual orientation, religious affiliation, age, medical condition, disability, or other protected classification.
Disagreements are normal, but making repeated, continued, or severe negative comments or circumventing blocks or bans can cross the line into harassment.
“Role-playing” or “historical significance” are not acceptable reasons to violate these Guidelines.

Do not engage in, promote, organize, or participate in terrorism or violent extremism.

This includes the organization, promotion, or support of violent extremism, including the glorification of violent events, perpetrators of said events or acts, or similar behaviors.

Do not make threats of violence, threaten to harm others, or encourage harm. This includes:

Direct, indirect, or suggestive threats.
Sharing or threatening to share someone's personally identifiable information, also known as “doxxing”. This applies regardless of whether the information is publicly available.
Content or behavior that glorifies or promotes violence, suicide, or self-harm.

3. Minor Safety

Do not engage in, promote, organize, or participate in illegal behavior.
Do not solicit, engage in, or share sexual content or activities with minors.
Do not promote or engage in the abuse or endangerment of minors, including (but not limited to) physical, mental, emotional, and/or substance abuse.
Do not expose minors to adult content or engage in adult activity with minors present. As an adult, you are responsible for the protection and well-being of minors.
VRChat maintains a zero-tolerance stance against Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (“CSEA”) and all other forms of minor endangerment. Accounts found engaging in such activities will be immediately and permanently banned.
All instances of child sexual exploitation, grooming, and illegal content involving minors will be promptly reported to the relevant legal authorities. We will do our best to ensure that appropriate action is taken beyond our platform.

4. Suicide and Self-Harm

Do not engage in, promote, organize, or participate in self-harming or suicidal behaviors.
Do not depict, promote, or provide instructions for suicide or self-harm in any form.
Do not depict, promote, or encourage weight-based bullying or eating disorders.
If you or someone you know is struggling with suicidal or self-harm thoughts, please contact your local emergency services or visit our Crisis Resources page for more information.

5. Platform Integrity

Do not share false information or misinformation.

Content, behavior, or information that is false, misleading, or that can lead to a significant risk of physical or societal harm is prohibited.

Do not impersonate other people, groups, or staff members to mislead or confuse others or for any other reason.
Do not reverse engineer and/or modify VRChat applications. This includes code injection, reverse-engineering, sideloading, exploiting, or any similar activities.

Circumventing anti-tamper software is strictly prohibited and will result in enforcement actions.

Do not engage in activities intended to cause damage or gain unauthorized access to another user's account, network, or system. This includes impersonating authority figures, distributing malware, authentication theft, phishing, DDoS, and other hacking or social engineering techniques.
Do not circumvent VRChat enforcements such as bans, public bans, kicks, safeguards, or related systems.
Do not use VRChat systems in a way intended to mislead, trick, fool, or confuse people.
Do not abuse VRChat products in any way that violates the Terms, such as selling VRChat accounts, spamming support or report forms, or participating in fraudulent activity involving VRChat systems.

This includes the creation or usage of “bots” to abuse the VRChat platform or services, or to abuse other products or services using VRChat.

Do not share VRChat login credentials between people or build services that ask for VRChat login credentials.

6. Regulated Goods

Do not promote, advertise, or engage in the distribution of illegal products on the VRChat platform.

This includes firearms, firearm accessories, illegal substances, and paraphernalia.

Do not promote, advertise, or engage in commercial gambling services.

7. Copyright

We comply with the provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and other applicable laws protecting intellectual property. If your copyright-protected work was posted without authorization, then you may submit a copyright infringement notice. Please see our Copyright Policy page for more information.

Instance Behavior

There are many types of instances in VRChat. Each type lets you select who can join the instance you create. Here are some guidelines to keep in mind depending on the instance you're in.

Please note these Guidelines and the Terms supersede any instance guidelines.

Public Instances

“Public” instances are easily accessible to anyone. This includes Public and Group Public instances.

Do not disrupt or troll public instances with provocative behavior, which includes but is not limited to:

Adult content or behavior, controversial topics
Sensitive, intimate, or provocative content or activities

Do not interrupt or disrupt people's activities or games! Every world may have its own rules, so it's hard to cover all the bases and control behavior in every case. This includes:

Cheating
Abusing in-platform or in-instance systems
Not being a good sport, or just generally being a jerk

Private Instances

Private instances need an invitation or an "in" to enter. This includes Invite and Invite+ instances, Friends and Friends+ instances, and Group and Group+ instances.

While these guidelines govern all behavior, the present authority may have their own set of rules and expectations. This could be the instance creator, event runners, group or venue moderators, a party host, a game master, or whatever is appropriate.
If a report is made from a Private Instance, we interpret that report as a violation of the rules in that instance and will be moderated as if it were Public.
Private instances that advertise themselves publicly will be considered public for the purposes of moderation.
The provocative behavior restrictions will not apply in Private instances as long as everyone present consents.

Minors cannot consent to provocative behavior. People who engage in provocative behavior with minors present will always be subject to enforcement, no matter what instance type they are in.
Harmful, hateful, or illegal activity is never allowed on VRChat, even if everyone is informed or consents.

Group Instances

Group instances are instances created by a Group. These include Group Public, Group+, and Group-Only instances.

Groups may moderate their instances how they see fit within the bounds of our guidelines. Group moderators can employ verbal or text-based warnings, system-level warnings, kicks, or bans to enforce their rules.
Group instance rules must be reasonable. In other words, people should be informed about the rules, the rules should be fair, and the rules should make sense for the environment.

It is the responsibility of the Group to inform Group instance occupants of any Group rules they need to follow.
Any rules should be fair. They should be possible to follow, and they should be consistent with the VRChat Guidelines.
The rules should make sense and should not be exploitative. For example:

Acceptable: Requiring people to wear Poor or better avatars at a crowded event
Unacceptable: Requiring people to watch an advertisement before joining a Group instance

Groups should handle Group moderation appeals and processes. VRChat Trust and Safety does not handle Group ban appeals. Requests submitted to VRChat Trust and Safety regarding Group bans may not receive a response.

Having an appeal process for your Group is ideal. However, you aren't required to have such a process. You may approve or deny Group ban appeals as you see fit, or inform people that "no appeals are accepted".

Zero-Tolerance Policy

We have a zero-tolerance policy for some violations that may lead to critical physical, psychological, and societal harm. These policy violations will be enforced with an immediate, permanent, and irreversible ban.

These zero-tolerance offenses encompass, but are not limited to, the distribution of child sexual abuse material (“CSAM”), CSEA, non-consensual intimate imagery, credible threats of violence posing real-world physical harm, and terrorist content. Our aim is to ensure a safe environment by taking swift and decisive action against such egregious behaviors and activities.

This approach underscores our commitment to maintaining a safe and welcoming community for all people, where serious harmful behaviors are met with immediate and decisive consequences.

Behavior Outside of VRChat

If you experience harassment or receive unwanted communications from other people on platforms outside of VRChat, it is crucial to utilize the moderation tools or reporting procedures available on those specific platforms.

Please be aware that VRChat may consider relevant off-platform behavior, such as hateful conduct or harmful conduct toward minors supported by credible and verifiable evidence, when conducting a review to determine appropriate enforcement action.

Appeal

To appeal an enforcement on your account, please submit an appeal request. We will thoroughly examine the details provided and subsequently notify you of the outcome.

Updated: September 24, 2025