A similar thing happened to my niece when she played Roblox. She was 12 and constantly being sent messages and weird things from adult men pretending to be children (to get around the parental controls). We had to report several of them to the police.
I’m glad this man was caught, but it bothers me that so many others are out there.
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Dedsnotdead1 day ago
+403
We’ve banned Roblox for exactly this reason, we have friends who had a very similar experience to your niece.
Deeply unpleasant, there are some very damaged people using Roblox to engage with children.
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blaqsupaman1 day ago
+89
I have to wonder why does it seem like this is such a problem with Roblox in particular? Is it particularly hard to moderate or do they just not want to be bothered? I've always wondered because there are other massive online games that are popular with both kids and adults that don't have this issue to this scale.
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_otpyrc1 day ago
+141
IMO it's because it's a game that lets players create their own games. Instead of some shared experience, pedos can design and target games for these victims. Well, that and Roblox as a company specifically targets young kids. Put those two together and there ya go.
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guiruschel1 day ago
+111
And the plataform added an age verification to segregate the chat messages, so now, not only they have the pictures of the kids that did the verification, but the predators can simply buy an account with an low age bracket, or use someone's kids photo to get an low age bracket, and you can only see messages on your age bracket, wich effectively means older people can't even see the messages and report anything amiss, they pretty much created an 1 to 1 setting for the predators, in broad daylight.
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Ralphie52311 day ago
+40
Allows pedos to specifically target age brackets.
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IStoleYourFlannel1 day ago
+19
I'm high af mind you but it's just insane to think about. We as a society have this accessible platform where pedophiles can meet and exploit victims. It's as easy as downloading a f****** app.
And it's just out here **existing** ubiquitously--marketed towards children through social media. We even have online groups for these people to meet, use AI to make p***, and distribute it to one another. An actual pedo pipeline just out in broad daylight.
What does the CEO of Roblox do about it? What do our governments? The other corporations and businesses that participate in the pipeline? Zilch. We are resources and our children are as much chattel as we are. Exploitable and expendable.
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LaDmEa1 day ago
+9
"You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension"
Still have no idea why anyone would let their kids use online games with chat functions. There's 100x the choices for offline play. And the games are much higher quality.
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Tenthul1 day ago
+6
People love to shit talk Nintendo, but they made their own whole-ass video conference feature for Switch 2 so they wouldn't have to go through a third party like Discord to worry about these kinda hoops because they know they make kids games but also need to support multiplayer better.
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genericusername261 day ago
+62
Doesn't help that roblox doesn't really seem to do anything about it. The CEO even [wants to add a dating feature to the game for some reason](https://www.anapolweiss.com/blog/roblox-and-dating-what-the-roblox-ceo-has-in-mind-for-the-future-and-what-this-means-for-the-already-dangerous-gaming-platform/)
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A_Nonny_Muse1 day ago
+27
Almost like the CEO is a pedo himself.
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DissKhorse1 day ago
+15
Yeah a dating app for children isn't at all creepy.
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BlueBicycle_1 day ago
+59
The CEO of roblox said they view predators on their platform as an opportunity and was pushing real hard to make the platform have a dating component for 17 and up (not 18, nope, 17 specifically, for... reasons). They also sued some dude who worked with the police to get a handful of predators arrested like this guy. They are basically marketing themselves as the predator hunting grounds the game
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Vegetable_Window74171 day ago
+8
Schlep. They banned him and sued him.
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marr751 day ago
+18
1. It's popular with children
2. They don't create or enforce even minimum safety controls to keep predators out
Roblox cares about monthly active use and nothing else until they get caught.
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MightyKAC1 day ago
+5
Anyone remember way back in the day when we used to have all these "Moral Majority" social advocacy groups who would crack down on things like movies and music and yes, even video game that were a "bad influence" on their poor and impressionable children?
Where did those guys disappear to because this seem like it's right up their ally.
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dodelol1 day ago
+11
Their chief safety officer played problematic games YEARS before they were banned due to public outcry. The game were bad when he played them.
The problem is the company puts profit over protecting children every single time.
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Jorlung1 day ago
+8
My guess is that the social component of the game is a big contributing factor. For better and for worse, you’re chatting a lot more with other people in the game when compared to something like Fortnite.
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So6oring1 day ago
+3
It would've been Minecraft if it wasn't so complicated to set up a multiplayer server. These mf's just go where the kids are that are easily accessible. This shit was happening on Club Penguin and Habbo Hotel as well.
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Squirll1 day ago
+5
Because technically youre not supposed to have an internet media account if youre under 13, but under 13 is like more than half of their player base.
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Vegetable_Window74171 day ago
+2
Not only does Roblox not moderate it, they actively work against moderating it.
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Dedsnotdead1 day ago
+3
I think it could be moderated more effectively but it would be at a significant cost.
I suspect that the company isn’t profitable and looks to save money where it can.
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justbrowsinginpeace1 day ago
+25
This is the way
There are so many other games even if the other kids in school are playing it. Banned for my lads.
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unk2141 day ago
+17
That’s a huge double edge sword. I would like to take anonymity from a lot of applications but corporations and the government will use this as an excuse to collect more data.
For now I recommend parents remain vigilant even in apps for kids. Spend time with them and see what they are up to and teach them to stay away from certain people.
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metalflygon081 day ago
+21
> For now I recommend parents remain vigilant even in apps for kids.
Yeah, even stuff like Youtube Kids ends up with some pretty nasty stuff on it disguised as "Kids entertainment".
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Rock_mage1 day ago
+7
Most of the reason YouTube kids exist is because pedophiles would interact with kids through comments. The comments are turned off so you can't interact with kids. YouTube kids is less for kids, more of too many kids are interacting with this video.
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unk2141 day ago
+4
Reminds me of those weird ass Elsa Spider-Man videos that eventually got taken down. They were aimed at small children and they were creepy.
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metalflygon081 day ago
+2
ElsaGate feels like it was so long ago...
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Squire_II1 day ago
+10
Zuckerberg is one of the people pushing hardest for anonymity to be removed online because it also gives corporations like Facebook a lot more data to harvest and sell.
Never, ever trust corporations or governments who push for more controls to "protect the children". Especially when the person leading the government is a self-admitted pedophile and sexual predator.
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unk2141 day ago
+2
True but that still leaves a lot of problems unsolved. Also opens the door for foreign political influence even more.
I would be open to kids under a certain age to have their own network. It’s not a perfect solution but it’s a start.
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Clanker010011 day ago
+172
When my nieces asked fir robux one christmas I had the game removed from their devices. I pay the family plan for all of our switches and let them know ill take them off completely otherwise. Roblox is nothing but a predators playground too risky.
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KimJongFunk1 day ago
+82
Roblox seems particularly susceptible and I’m curious if anyone knows why.
I know that this type of creepy behavior is not unique to Roblox and it has happened on other sites like Neopets in the 2000s and Club Penguin and FarmVille in the 2010s, but I also feel like it was easier to block these people and avoid them on those sites.
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HeetHootSkyat1 day ago
+129
Roblox's moderation is absolutely terrible and the CEO doesn't give a f***. Also a lot of games like the one's you mentioned are gone, letting Roblox grow higher in population because children are running out of safe spaces on the internet as a whole. (Not saying that these games were always safe, but an effort was at least made.)
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DVoteMe1 day ago
+75
I’ll add that the latest Roblox security measures make it impossible for me to read the public messages that my daughter can read because we are in different age groups.
So if a parent doesn’t circumvent the age restrictions, they will be unable to see what the predators who do circumvent the security are saying to their child.
Also, tiering the app by age makes it so that you can’t see if the children are bullying each other, and steer the conversation to be more positive.
I felt it was more secure before they added the current system because active parents could monitor. Now it’s a free for all.
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ExoticWeapon1 day ago
+36
The CEO is probably a pedo themselves let’s be real.
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TheTurretCube1 day ago
+11
CEO's are generally very evil in one way or another, you dont get that job unless youre morally bankrupt
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Saradoesntsleep1 day ago
+4
Almost hard to see this as anything but intentional.
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DandyLyen1 day ago
+30
Never had this problem on Zoo Tycoon, just saying! Maybe we need to bring back offline gaming. I play marvel rivals, and there's a game mode which is like a plaza and you ... hang out? I never played it cause I'm an adult with little free time, but just recently learned that apparently some adults start talking to kids. Just get rid of these game interactions, people can learn to get community elsewhere
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konnichi1wa1 day ago
+14
Yep, they added public pvp lobbys where you can chat with anyone there and randomly challenge people. I miss the days where I had no internet and would just play Spyro the dragon for the 15th time.
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abzinth911 day ago
+5
Or trying to reach that one platform on the water in Crash Bandicoot 2
I really miss the old offline gaming days
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Dedsnotdead1 day ago
+10
We don’t have any problems so far with Nintendo games, even those with voice.
Roblox isn’t something I’m remotely comfortable letting out children go near unsupervised and I don’t think I should need to spend hours keeping an eye on them online.
I check regularly, Roblox in my personal experience is mostly mediocre gaming, that they seemed to quite like, and some really broken people messaging them occasionally.
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Lucius-Halthier1 day ago
+38
Roblox has actually banned people who find out who is grooming on their platform and out them, but Roblox won’t punish those who are actually the predators
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blaqsupaman1 day ago
+5
I wonder at this point if it's just about the bad publicity or if they privately consider the pedos too important of a demo for them money-wise.
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Adultery1 day ago
+7
The internet isn’t safe for children. There are predators on every site and application. I remember them from battle.net. Anything with a chat feature and a child audience will have predators.
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_Nightbreaker_1 day ago
+2
Until recently, I never even knew/heard about this whole Roblox and Minecraft thing. I'm still trying to wrap my head around how videogame=predators online. I knew about YouTube's predatory practices but am now recently learning about these online games.
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Rain_Dog21 day ago
+32
I’d suspect it has to do with (a) the community being so young, on average, (b) Roblox having a whole digital ecosystem with Robux, (c) the ability for direct messaging, (d) the ability to communicate via voice chat (i.e. no written communication logs), and (e) the ability to share images. Seems kind of like a perfect storm, to be honest
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ASmallTownDJ1 day ago
+15
Yeah, it seems like it's basically a game that doubles as a social media site for children, but the currency system creates a financial interest in doing as much as they can to avoid banning the people that will give the company money.
It's like they remade Second Life with a specific emphasis on being a community full of kids.
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konnichi1wa1 day ago
+6
Also no controls on the games made so that they can engage in gambling and other things they definitely shouldn’t have on a kids site.
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ArentWright1 day ago
+11
Wouldn’t be surprised if Fortnite had this issue too. I’ve been randomly paired with a little kid before, which I found very concerning. His parents didn’t know I was safe! He even tried to add me as a friend, which would have enabled us to chat whenever.
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blaqsupaman1 day ago
+5
I don't do much online gaming and when I do I only ever VC with people I know and am friends with already. My friend group and I made the mistake once of going in an open lobby in Goose Goose Duck (an Among Us-like) and I came to the conclusion that the *only* reason an adult would subject themselves to that is if they were a predator. The lobby was mostly children and they were annoying as hell.
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Dedsnotdead1 day ago
+6
Moderation is a cost I suppose.
We had a few months of push back but I’ve banned it at the router using a pi hole. I don’t think I should have to do that but it’s one less thing to worry about.
All for a quieter life these days.
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konnichi1wa1 day ago
+6
It’s do that or the kids *will* figure out workarounds. Better to make them so computer literate in the attempt that they can pirate real games by the time they get around the Roblox block, then it probably won’t be as interesting.
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Dedsnotdead1 day ago
+3
100% in agreement with you, all for promoting and encouraging their curiosity. Scratch was a great introduction and to be fair I learned a lot about how to teach them entertainingly as well.
But Roblox was a real eye opener in a really unpleasant way. That’s the politest way I can put it, hard block at least on the home network.
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ofAFallingEmpire1 day ago
+18
The people who make Roblux are genuinely evil with their callousness. I don’t think you could make a worse game if you tried.
School Shooter Simulator? That’s already *in* Roblox! What’s more, one of those School Shooter games was made by someone who would then **GO ON TO SHOOT UP A SCHOOL**.
Seriously, Roblox is awful.
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Duel_Option1 day ago
+3
Well…about all I need to hear to know I should keep ky kids away from Roblox even though their friends talk about it all the time
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Ignisiumest1 day ago
+3
A lot of the time, these harmful interactions move off-platform from Roblox to happen in places like Discord.
I don’t think they’re really going to be able to fix the problem without removing chat systems entirely. But this would completely destroy their identity as a social experience, and cause stock prices to drop.
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IMOBY_Edmonton1 day ago
+2
Roblox has poor content control that has allowed people to host sexualized games on their platform, such as the "Bathroom games" where players RP people sharing a bathroom together, and engage in an online dating life. It's disturbing that the company does the bare minimum, shutting down the most popular versions, but many more slip through the cracks.
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Klientje1231 day ago
+19
I think you can just disable chat and pms and you should be safe. If they want to speak to friends, use phone or Discord I guess.
It's better to find a solution, because now they may not tell you things anymore in fear of retribution.
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Clanker010011 day ago
+7
Not worth it with this game specifically
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D1rtyH1ppy1 day ago
+3
Roblox is not available for the Switch
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the_fit_britt19961 day ago
+3
Is Roblox available on Nintendo Switches?
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Zxcc241 day ago
+15
It sucks majorly, kids shouldn't have to deal with shit like that.
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YumYumYellowish1 day ago
+7
It’s amazing what these guys do to get around parental controls. When I was 11 playing toontown, a guy used furniture to spell out his phone number to try to get my friends and I to reach out to him.
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_DuranDuran_1 day ago
+4
It’s common on all platforms - I worked in this field and we called them age liars. Some companies have better age estimation models than others.
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minmidmax1 day ago
+6
You'll never let your kids play Roblox unsupervised again once you learn about the 764 cult.
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WaffleFangStorm1 day ago
+2
That’s horrible, I’m sorry she went through that. People still think “it’s just a kids’ game” and don’t realize how many adults lurk there. Honestly, disabling chat by default for under-16s would prevent so much of this.
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rock_and_rolo1 day ago
+2
They are all over the place, and adapt with the changes.
Way back, when my daughter was 14 some rock drummer was chatting her up on AOL. I forget what the band was, but it was familiar. Fortunately she freaked out when he started talking about picking her up.
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EmeraldJunkie1 day ago
+2
I had someone ask me for a picture of my knob on Roblox when I was a kid and that was probably about 15 years ago, if not longer.
It is shocking that it is still on going.
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CrosbyCanGetBent1 day ago
+2
“Several times” - here’s an idea, don’t let her play it after you find out the first time? Unreal
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Anvanaar1 day ago
+2
Somehow specifically Roblox seems EXTREMELY prone to this sort of stuff happening. I wonder why. (No sarcasm or irony here, I never played it, so I don't know why.)
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Gleneroo1 day ago
+5
I wasn't paying attention until my 13-year-old daughter started writing suicidal messages. It stemmed from Roblox chat stories. I banned Roblox immediately. I'm furious with them. Now she's on antidepressants and seeing a psychologist at just 13. I'm utterly disgusted of this.
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YamahaRyoko1 day ago
+1
When our now 23 year old was in elementary school he was playing this
One day I saw the chat - he wasn't allowed to play it again
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sfearing911 day ago
+1
Friend of my daughter who was in 3rd grade had this happening. Her parents did nothing even after admitting issues with her sleeping etc etc. even shared how to pages with them to lock her account down. But nope
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Crazhand1 day ago
+306
I’m not sure how Roblox controls work, but this was a major reason I liked Toontown. You had to get permission from your parents to be able to chat with others, otherwise you could only use and see pre-written phrases. It’s a very good safety feature for kids.
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ScalabrineIsGod1 day ago
+97
I played both as a kid and toontown aged like fine wine imo. Theres even a dedicated fan community that has kept the game alive and free, it’s not even a dead game. The player base is pretty positive and welcoming overall.
Roblox meanwhile.. I’m not the “back in my day” type for the most part (yet) but it was a pretty benign thing in the late 2000s and early 2010s. I had a lot of fun memories playing it but if I had them, I wouldn’t let my kids near that game now. It’s full of scammers, predators, and micro transactions.
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MeloniaStb1 day ago
+19
Yeah, maybe I have rose tinted glasses on, but I remember playing it when I was 9 back in 2010 and it was fine. I never encountered any weirdos, mostly played with my cousins and friends from school doing obbys and tycoons. Now though? There's so many adults as well as children that I don't think it'll be safe. I saw some wacky ass sex lobbys on twitter too, that shit was full on animated naked c*** and p**** bruh. I'm just glad I moved on to playing Minecraft when I got it for my birthday at 10 lmao
If I ever have kids in the future, it's Nintendo or nothing for them. Maybe a PC once their in high school
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daveyTRON1 day ago
+20
VMK or Virtual Magic Kingdom was another kid's game I used to play as a kid/tween. Looking back, it had great moderation. Think Habbo Hotel meets Disney World.
You were only able to play during regular business hours (0700-2100?) because actual human staff members would be online and moderating the game.
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TheTwinkieMaster1 day ago
+17
This literally used to be a feature on Roblox fifteen years ago when I started playing as a ten year old. It was called Safe Chat and they removed it for some reason.
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Due-Fig52991 day ago
+6
Even chatting with the free chat was super censored. You couldn’t even type numbers because they didn’t want people to tell their age. It really was a great system
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Fuddlescuddles1 day ago
+4
Shit, I remember playing neopets when I was a kid and you had to print then fax or mail in a consent form signed by your parents.
Seems like a lot of online games back then took ‘kid safety’ serious. It could also be that the internet is just too easily available these days, so supervision of kids is just a bit harder. Whereas back then you were sitting at a desk with a huge computer and if your fam was like mine it wasn’t in a private area so everyone could see what you were getting into.
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i-just-thought-i1 day ago
+3
Omg I loved toontown. what a fever dream. The minigames! The pies! the satisfaction of unlocking more attacks? The... like... machine businesspeople? I just had a flashback with your comment.
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gubdge1 day ago
+5
If you haven't heard, there's a community-ran server called [Toontown Rewritten](https://www.toontownrewritten.com/) with a relatively big active player base that stays largely true to the original.
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stater3541 day ago
+2
I remember trying to give a friend my email in Wolfquest when I was like 10 which also had pre written phrases, and I was using the first letter of each phrase to spell out my email
They did not understand lol
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dalaiis1 day ago
+2
How would toontown check if you have permission from your parents??
Hello, this is my parents, Crazhand has permission to play Toontown!
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Crazhand1 day ago
+3
It does require the bare minimum amount of active parenting which is having access to the account settings and checking if the feature is on or off. If you want to go a step further, you could ensure only you, the parent, have access to the password so there’s no chance the kid could change it.
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Shelala851 day ago
+121
>Tritta travelled from his Hampshire home to her home in Manchester several times and maliciously called social services about the girl's mother, as well as telling the teenager he had called the police on her mother and brother "for your protection".
>In December, he was arrested for perverting the course of justice after he tried to get his victim to drop the charges. But, three days after he was given a suspended sentence, Tritta returned to her family home.
>He was rearrested and was charged with a series of child sex offences.
What a charming young man.
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WittyFix65531 day ago
+37
Sounds like he was jailed for a lot more than just grooming someone on Roblox.
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AuxNimbus1 day ago
+197
Roblox never beating allegations
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Unicycleterrorist1 day ago
+94
The fact that their CEO floated the idea of a dating app amid all of this shit continously happening is still so mind-bogglingly stupid lol
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skykingjustin1 day ago
+30
Pedoblox got its nickname for a reason.
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Squirll1 day ago
+8
Roblox is a shit platform run by shit people for sure.
But the bigger issue here is parents letting their kids online without teaching them how to exist safely in that enviroment.
Most of the issues with roblox (while it should be moderated) can be addressed with parenting and being involved with your kids.
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TeaAndLifting1 day ago
+3
Yeah. It’s absolutely f****** insane to me how basic online safety isn’t taught by parents. People know how to teach their kids to cross roads safely, not to talk to strangers and so on. The when it comes to online platforms, be it video games or social media, they become f****** useless and say things like “teeheehee, i just don’t understand technology” and are actively ignorant to things.
Really basic thing like “don’t accept message and friend requests from people you don’t know IRL”and “don’t share your IRL details online” is beyond the capabilities of these people.
Even at an administrative level, the UK’s data watch dog have only just put out advice that parents should treat online safety like IRL safety. All of these chucklefucks are decades behind with the basics. So it’s no wonder why children are unsafe.
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DCS_Sport1 day ago
+60
The more I hear about Roblox, the more I think it’s going to be banned in my house when my daughter gets older…
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konnichi1wa1 day ago
+46
Pre-ban it. Ounce of Prevention worth a pound of cure and all that.
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benbamboo1 day ago
+17
I'm a primary school teacher.
My wife is a detective in a domestic abuse and safeguarding team.
Please take it from me that banning Roblox is one of the best decisions you can make if you want to keep your child safe online. It's a cesspit.
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paperclouds4121 day ago
+8
Do it. Wish I would have done it sooner before my daughter got tricked into going on a Rule34 site under the guise of “codes for in-game content”.
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doyouhavehiminblonde1 day ago
+6
Definitely ban it. I won’t let my kids play it. A lot of their friends do.
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usernamedenied1 day ago
+6
I'm a bit of a gamer dad and quite lenient on what video games I let my two boys play; however, roblox is banned in our house.
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MeNamIzGraephen1 day ago
+2
You can look-up software to ban certain sites or server traffic, so that most stuff works, but Roblox wont, for example.
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bicycle_mice1 day ago
+3
My kiddos won’t have access to iPads period. They can watch some TV and movies together with us but they’re not having devices to use solo until they have earned a ton of trust at much older ages.
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VapidRapidRabbit1 day ago
+25
He looks like one of those Gallagher brothers.
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Thesleek1 day ago
+6
I can’t tell if you mean Oasis or Shameless
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paperclouds4121 day ago
+29
Pretty sure someone tried to do that to my daughter. She was told to go to a site for codes for in-game items and it ended up being a Rule34 site full of Roblox based p***. Luckily we caught it very quickly, reported the user and got her off it immediately. I’m convince the whole thing has become a child predator networking platform on a scale that we haven’t even fully grasped.
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mattihase1 day ago
+14
Become? It's been that for a while now.
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paperclouds4121 day ago
+5
Become referring to since its inception. I don’t thinks started like that although maybe I’m wrong.
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mattihase1 day ago
+2
yeah that's fair. It's just stories have been coming out about the exploititive culture there for years now and it kinda feels insane that everyone hasn't been seeing it as that.
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Connect-Idea-19441 day ago
+28
parents don't realize the amount of preds on kids video games, it's not rare at all.
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AsbestosDude1 day ago
+13
Why dont kids play neopets anymore??
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aradraugfea1 day ago
+34
Roblox, the child exploitation app.
If it ain’t financial, it’s sexual.
The correct under 18 user base is zero.
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Zero_Sub19111 day ago
+4
Never let your kid play Roblox
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Formloff1 day ago
+30
A man has been sentenced to 28 months in prison after grooming a 14-year-old girl on the gaming platform Roblox.
Thats probably gonna be enough time for him to learn. He's not gonna do it again, right?
Tax evasion will put you away for years
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H0agh1 day ago
+9
28 months is "years"?
2 years and 4 months to be precise.
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ScarletQuiver1 day ago
+9
Still not nearly enough
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_KodeX1 day ago
+8
Being a pedo gets you a slap on the wrist compared to not paying £100 of your tax even though billionaires don't pay shit
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StopShooting1 day ago
+8
I used to play Minecraft with a friend years ago, but they weren’t online so I tried a random server on Xbox. There was an adult trying to ask a child for their Snapchat and they banned my account for calling them a pedophile and telling them to stop.
I contacted support and they saved my account and told me they banned the other person’s account.
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jackidaytona61 day ago
+4
Yo quit letting your kids play these games.
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HeWhoShlNotBNmd1 day ago
+14
Kids shouldn't be playing this disgusting piece of game. The heads at roblox has already made it very clear they can care less about your children's safety on the platform as long as profits continue to roll in.
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Lionwoman1 day ago
+14
CEO of Roblox said something alike that pedos where an oportunity (of what? financial?). One programmer of the game was recently charged with CP. They don't care about pedos in their game.
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Lamontyy1 day ago
+12
Any adult on roblox should be... Observed ..
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MrNoobFTW1 day ago
+8
I started playing Roblox when I was 6. Back in 2011. I would never ever let my kids play Roblox with what it’s devolved to.
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Vyviel1 day ago
+3
Yeah its an absolute shithole compared to how it started and its original goals
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GodsToWho1 day ago
+3
They ban everything but still not Roblox?
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4dimensionaltoaster1 day ago
+3
How is Roblox support to earn money if 90% of their users are sent to jail?
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garbagegoat1 day ago
+5
Its always been garbage. My kids (now grown) wanted to play it as kids, it didn't take long for me to realize it was a haven for pedos and this was back in the early 2010s. They hated me for it because 'all my friends play it!' But it was banned in our house. Instead they had Minecraft, stardew valley, spore, etc if they wanted to play games. They get it now thankfully but sad it seems to have only gotten worse.
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huntsab20901 day ago
+2
Cant find this article on the daily mail… odd
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Jeremisio1 day ago
+2
Roblox, not even once
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Fruitspunchredd1 day ago
+2
There are thousands of guys like this on Roblox, probably more.
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Taerinn1 day ago
+2
my daughter is never touching this PDF nest...
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YeOldSpacePope1 day ago
+2
In his defense, he thought that is what the app was for.
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Shradow1 day ago
+2
Remember when the Roblox CEO described the predator issue as not a problem, but an opportunity?
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emmsmum1 day ago
+2
It’s always a guy that looks like this too
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TroublesomeTurnip1 day ago
+2
I know nothing about the game (app?) but all headlines I've read, is that it's a sketch place to prey on kids.
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IRSnotreal1 day ago
+2
Fork found in kitchen, unfortunately
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kingozma1 day ago
+2
Ohhh nooo darn. Anyway 🎉 🎈 🎊
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Lyle_Bland1 day ago
+2
Roblox is like 25% child lurers (conservative estimate). This has been well-known for years. I assumed everyone knew at this point.
It blows my mind that in 2026 any parent would knowingly allow their child on Roblox.
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Scar3cr0w_1 day ago
+1
I love how the parents are demanding that Roblox “do more”… I don’t disagree.
But id also like to see parents “do more”.
There are lots of parental controls available on Roblox that would have stopped this from happening.
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Wisdomlost1 day ago
+5
I saw roblox is a hive for pedophiles deep dives on YouTube like 6 years ago. It's hard to believe no one has cared enough to shut this shit down in all that time.
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buttflapper4441 day ago
+3
Where are the criminal charges for someone at Roblox who is supposed to insure a safe experience online? Someone should be facing criminal negligence charges at that company right now
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meeps20q01 day ago
+2
Im legit unclear why this is at the top of news? Doesnt this stuff happen pretty frequently in that god forsaken place?
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Athena_Pegasus1 day ago
+7
When will they go after the kiddie diddlers in the white house?
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Confident-Beyond68571 day ago
+21
To be fair, this is in the UK, and they have already taken more steps to deal with their Epstein problem than the US has.
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Leggy_Brat1 day ago
+3
The idea of a chatroom style game for kids is just doomed from the start ngl
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the_turdinator691 day ago
+1
Dude looks like Jschlatt
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Aperturee1 day ago
+3
So, now that we see that the new Roblox chat restrictions and age verification systems are useless, can we please get a freechat version of the game, please?
So many games have been killed because you can't speak to other people on Roblox because of the arbitrary age grouping system, I'm 24 and I can't even speak to my own brother in-game...
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Specialist_Spot30721 day ago
+6
My friend pointed out it's probably worse after that because predators can now easily bypass the age verification and put themselves in the younger age groups.
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Extension_Ideal_40121 day ago
+9
How bout we just take chat out of the kids game altogether
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Bratfink781 day ago
+2
Wood chip wood chip chipper!
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No_Sherbert41431 day ago
+2
And yet Schelp is the one being reprimanded.
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newnrthnhorizon1 day ago
+2
Some good friends of mine's daughter was really into Roblox and got caught up in the 764 cult. She was posting video and photos of her cut marks. The FBI even got involved with some of her friends. Scary shit.
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Justifiably_Bad_Take1 day ago
+2
Going to be interesting to see which lawyer Roblix hires to defend him
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GrandSyzygy1 day ago
+2
I’m surprised parents still let their kids use Roblox
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Chuck19831 day ago
+3
Presidential behavior
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Karl_Cross1 day ago
+1
"Roblox should have done more to protect my daughter," says women who did nothing to protect her daughter.
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KillerKilcline1 day ago
+2
How do you know she "did nothing"? Please provide links.
At least you mama hides your comment history, like a brave little warrior.
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Ok_Necessary85101 day ago
+1
This is like half of all Roblox users.
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forresto1 day ago
+1
Is it still dangerous if you disable the chat/microphone options so you can’t speak to or hear anyone?
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shockrush1 day ago
+1
Chris Hansen just released a short documentary on incidents like this
I don't like Chris Hansen or his methods very much, but I think it's an important video for parents and children playing Roblox to see
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Ltsmash991 day ago
+1
Youd think the White House made and released roblox given the stories coming out recently.
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Spocks_Goatee1 day ago
+1
UK will punish everyone for this by invading privacy even harder.
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Lower_Excuse_86931 day ago
+1
I’m confused; you’re saying Roblox is a gaming app? The only things I ever heard about it are predators; are we sure it’s not just app for predators that calls itself a gaming app?
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MajorFuckingDick1 day ago
+1
It bothers me so much that they never mention the predator is 19. A disturbing amount of these being caught are simply continuing a cycle of abuse they were roped into themselves. Roblox probably needs to disable chat entirely but kids will always find a way to danger.
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Formal-Try-27791 day ago
+1
On the bright side, it won't be long before he gets a kettle full of boiling water and sugar thrown in his face. Going into jail as a beast means you've got a big target on your back. Someone will get him sooner or later.
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ImBadAtJumping1 day ago
+1
> **Who can talk to my child on Roblox?**
> If your child is 13 or younger, by default, they’ll only be able to talk to their friends or 'connections' within the games they are playing.
> Once a child is over 13, they can access private chats and voice chats with people Roblox believes are their own age.
Talking with gynecological doctors colleagues and social assistants from social services they tell me that now nowadays the average age at which teenagers start to have sex is 13, so it seems to me roblox is pretty spot on for casually capturing or gating this behaviour.
Also the guy was 18 when all this thing started? Probably he has matured this pattern earlier when he was maybe in between hes 14 and 17 and so for him there was nothing wrong he was doing, teenage business as usual, he probably didn't fully mature the awareness of what reaching the adulthood implied when he's recently got 18.
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Tough-Part1 day ago
+1
Roblox has always been enabling stuff like this for years. No action has been taken to improve safety by the company.
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