Is there anyway to change my username? If so, how? I’m transgender and my user name now is my dead name, and I dont want to loss all my friends on Vrchat.
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Go to VRChat.com go to edit your profile and at the top you can change your display name
Special notice it gives
You may only change your name once every 3 months, choose wisely! Once you change your name, you may never be able to get your original name back!
Your display name can be changed every 90 days, as @Butterstuffs points out.
Your user name is the first display name that you ever used, and it cannot be changed.
This might change in the future.
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Wondering how I can change my display name on here (askvrchat). This is also my dead name.
I have changed it on VRChat.
Is there anyone I can speak to who can change it on this site? I tried using the “message a staff member” option but see no way of contacting anybody via PM. The contact us link is also broken (plus I wouldn’t consider this an emergency).
I see no way of editing it beyond deleting my account. Will deleting my account here remove my VRC account?
I don’t believe we have a way to do this, but I’ve matched your name here to your VRChat name as a one-time thing.
When I get some time I’ll look into a way to solve this.
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Thank you very much! That’s much appreciated.
Hi, I have the same issue, I go by Freaky Old Man in VRC as well as all my social media account now named this, the community I work for is called Project Aincrad in VRC and would like to do the same here so people know it’s me. Is there any chance you could please help me change it for when people are looking for a way to contact me about the project or world?
As I am now trying to match my name across all platforms I used.
Since I made this post, I have enabled unlimited username changes on this forum. You should be able to change it as you see fit right now in the profile page
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Hi. I don’t know if this post still gets looked at, but I’ve been curious about something for a bit.
I’ve been playing VRChat since late 2017, and only late last year did I notice my name actually had a space at the end. I’m fairly certain I never put one there when I first made the account.
I’ve been thinking of changing my display name for a few months now, but I’m afraid that if I do, I won’t be able to change it back ever, because VRChat handles that differently now, right?
I’d have to re-add the space at the end, because someone else (who hasn’t touched VRChat since 2018) took the name that I thought I already had.
Is there any way I can recover my name and keep the space at the end if I ever decide to go back? What can or would I be able to do? Is there anything that can be done on VRChat’s end?
-Edit: Since this account is new on this forum, I’m the Jared with the blue robot character with the long ponytail in the profile picture, if this helps any.-
You revived a 4 years ago discussion just to not read it? You can change it every 90 days
My question was asking if the system will accept the space at the end of my name if I try to go back to it. I remember they changed the way VRChat handles characters like that in the username, so I am unsure if it will be accepted as a valid character, despite it being part of my old name.
I wouldn’t test it.
..then wait to be able to change it again?
Their issue is similar to mine in that we have symbols and illegal characters in our original usernames. No amount of waiting to change the display name is ever going to undo the built-in system they have for preventing usernames with symbols. That very system is why I am afraid to change mine, because then I might be stuck in the same predicament as AngelDevil, where I can’t put it back.
I was hoping to get a response from a dev of sorts or someone who can help sort this out.
I don’t think they’re gonna respond to name changes.
Listen, I don’t mean to be mean, and you seem to have helped quite a few people in other posts, but these replies of yours are not helping anyone in this particular discussion post. At this point, please just let someone else respond. If nobody does, then so be it. But I would rather have someone who might have good information, a possible solution, or even an insightful question, than what you have been responding with in here.
Sometimes the solution is no.
I have this weird problem where ive been trying to get this username that I know no one else has. my friend ended up getting it by accident even though everytime ive tried it says the display name is taken (for about a year ive been trying) Her og username is not this username and she changed her display name back to what she had before. is there an explanation. I made a ticket but I am trying anywhere that may or may not get a faster answer. the username I would like is fluffershy which again no one has right now on vrchat.
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