People that make 3D models and sell them on Etsy style websites for ~$50 each. Others then gather and buy them. It require basic skills in Unity to use them.
tbhimo, this is beyond bad omen to VRC and VR at large from profitability angle. To me it looks the exact path that Twitter went down.
I'm a random person on the Internet with tinfoil hat on, but:
Twitter and Mastodon "went down" this same path. Once bunch of Japanese users figure it out, it's over for a webservice. The system will be pinned at capacity while hemorrhaging non-Japanese users, and any attempted improvements super-proportionately hurt metrics such that the operation only grow in expenditures.
Facebook never had this problem(they still have/had plenty of pornography, anime and not, even literal records of child abuse, just not key presence in/from Japan), and is in fact has been a tumbling snowball of cash.
Those content creators aren't malicious, and there still would be tons of non-monetizable values in the system, but the system that are shaped in this form is set up to be a money pit. My gut theories as to why are that maybe Japanese populace has sixth sense about incurring losses, subconsciously doing for the sake of it, and/or that Japanese people have significantly higher dopamine tolerance that systems that are just right in Japan are way too overwhelming to anyone else - a prime example of the latter being Elon Musk, who appear to be in an incomparably better cognitive state on literal abused substances than he is just browsing Twitter normally.
But whatever the mechanisms might be, the way I feel about "content from Japan > all others combined" situation is it's a "get the plane ticket now if you had cathedrals and national parks to see before you go" indication for the system.
You can commission people to make custom avatars for you if you don't know how to make one yourself. This is a fairly complex process, at least if you want a nice one that has full rigging and mocap support using external cameras and body tracking. I met someone at a party who does this as a side gig and brings in about $15K/year from it.
