“Ugandan Knuckles” has its origins in a nearly year-old joke, but thanks to an easily downloadable character model and the explosive world of VRChat, the problematic meme has been quickly spreading.

Ugandan Knuckles is a throwback to the early days of the anarchic messageboard 4chan, whose anonymous users gleefully raided multiplayer kids’ games. On the 8-bit children’s game Habbo Hotel, they ...

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If you haven’t yet heard of VRChat, Sonic The Hedgehog’s marsupial friend Knuckles, and his insulting Ugandan-accented equivalent, take a seat, because there’s a lot to explain. All in all, throw ...

It's like the PUBG lobby, but forever. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. VRChat is a free-to-play, user-created multiverse where ...

Yep. Those are my friends. And they're about to jump into a bathtub of goldfish horrors. Credit: screenshot / vrchat Essentials Week spotlights unexpected items that make our daily lives just a little ...

While you’ve been hanging out on the centralized, Instagram-filtered internet, full of hashtags and viral GIFs, a weird, wild, and extremely fascinating new territory has been established — surrounded ...

With growing usage of social virtual worlds and spaces like VRChat and Mozilla Hubs, you might be looking for a way to make your own avatar to represent yourself in VR. Here are two user-friendly ...

Successful Steam social platform VRChat is in a state of disarray following a disruptive update that banned all mods, leaving the game unplayable for many who rely on modded accessibility features.