VRChat incident

Avatar Load Issues

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VRChat experienced a major incident on August 19, 2026 affecting Realtime Player State Changes, lasting 35m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Aug 19, 2026, 12:46 PM UTC
Resolved
Aug 19, 2026, 01:21 PM UTC
Duration
35m
Detected by Pingoru
Aug 19, 2026, 12:46 PM UTC

Affected components

Realtime Player State Changes

Update timeline

  1. investigating Aug 19, 2026, 12:46 PM UTC

    We're aware of and are investigating issues resulting in avatars failing to load

  2. identified Aug 19, 2026, 12:47 PM UTC

    The issue has been identified and a fix has been rolled out, it will take a bit of time for things to completely return to normal

  3. monitoring Aug 19, 2026, 01:15 PM UTC

    Things are returning to normal, we will continue monitoring to ensure things remain stable

  4. resolved Aug 19, 2026, 01:21 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.