VRChat experienced a major incident on January 2, 2026 affecting Realtime Player State Changes, lasting 34m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Realtime Player State Changes
Update timeline
- investigating Jan 02, 2026, 02:31 PM UTC
We are investigating an issue affecting server processing causing some content (avatars and worlds) to fail to load.
- monitoring Jan 02, 2026, 02:49 PM UTC
We've implemented a fix and the backlog of avatars and worlds is processing now
- resolved Jan 02, 2026, 03:05 PM UTC
Avatar and world processing has returned to normal