#roblox update

SURELY this is a sign.

They only think about classic Roblox— THEY’RE SPOILED!

They won’t use classic faces, they can’t speak to their friends.

THE AI VERIFICATION WON’T LET THEM!

I’m better.

I have more money!

I’M A BILLIONAIRE.

I

AM

DAVID BASZUCKI

There's a lot of jokes going around regarding David Baszucki and the decisions made in the past few months—mainly about age verification and the new (forgive me) metaverseslop avatar system. While the memes are funny and it's great to make fun of corporations for their nonsense, we as a community genuinely need to have a conversation about where this platform is going and how it is affecting people in real life.

Hundreds of people have made this point before me, and I certainly won't be the last, however I feel it is not recognized enough how legitimately game-breaking these overhauls will be and how Roblox corporation continues to allow predators to harm children via their platform. Plenty of people have already covered the recent crimes done towards children through Roblox and how the recent updates have done nothing but made it easier for predatory individuals to thrive on the site. Other people have also been covering how the direction the site is going with its updates will completely destroy everything that made Roblox loved in the first place. I will not be rambling about this here, as I said, plenty of people have done the heavy lifting in that department.

What I'm here to talk about is the fandom. With the way Roblox corporation is driving its platform into the dirt, we need to really consider what this entire space of the internet will be when, inevitably, the original identity of Roblox is completely lost and there are no games left to preserve the things that made people love it.

The games that keep the Roblox community together all share one similar trait—that being any kind of homages for the platform in its early days, when the community wasn't as fragmented amongst demographics. These most often manifest in things like R6, gears, sound design, to name a few. Now, I'm not going to give the whole "classic Roblox was better" spiel everyone's heard a thousand times, even I'm sick of it. But there was clearly something in that original game style that captivated people and lead Roblox to become as big as it is now. While a lot of that energy has been lost, the community has found solace in the fact that we could always emulate those warm aspects of the game's early days through core features like the avatar system.

But now, that system is being completely overhauled; the community has already seen that Roblox corporation has no concern in preserving the history of its platform with how it deleted so many games in the desire to have them age-rated. As much as it hurts to say, there's really nothing left for us in Roblox anymore. We've held onto the idea of what the platform used to be, but now I think it's genuinely time to accept that Roblox is a soulless husk that has the priorities of no demographic in mind. (unless you consider predators a demographic)

More importantly so, we cannot keep supporting a site that allows human trafficking to happen with our web traffic, playtime, and money.

You need to quit Roblox. For good. Don't come back if they ever revert some changes, don't come back for game updates, do not create games using the platform, and especially so, do not spend your money on Roblox. Yes, it's difficult, especially if you're attached to a game, are a developer, trader, item designer, or are even in my rare position where your entire identity is sourced from a Roblox character (such is the plight of modern psychology). However, every second spent on that platform is money into pockets of a corporation that doesn't care about you and will continue to allow children to be hurt.

What does this mean for the fandom? Well, I myself will continue to make art about classic Roblox. I was on the platform for twelve years and got to experience some of what people regard as the Golden Age of Roblox. It's been a major part of my life as entertainment, an outlet for friendship and creation, and being a place I went to for comfort—not just because of the whole source thing. Because of all of that, I love to create art about that era of Roblox regardless of the state of the platform today.

In my opinion, off-platform creations still can and should be made. I would hate to see these communities die out just because Roblox's integrity did. I'd even consider creating art and stories of its characters but never actually going on-platform as an act of resistance (not as if the corporation would care, but in merit). Some communities have lasted decades based on fanworks alone, and I hope this one could be one of the ones to pull off detaching from its host site. Call that wishful thinking, but I'd hate to see these spaces I found so much of myself in disappear because a soulless company betrayed their community.

At the end of the day, it's simply a matter of separating Roblox's past and its current state and being able to hold corporations accountable by pulling your patronage. If one day Roblox gets a new CEO and they somehow prove to us they'll prioritize a community over shareholders, maybe there could be hope for a revival in Roblox as a medium. However, we cannot hold onto that hope that the site will be saved and then therefore wait to withhold our support from who's in control now.

Continue to create art about the Roblox games and characters you love; continue to talk about how the game affected your life when the people in charge actually cared. Continue to foster a community of acceptance, unity, and support, even while we're kicked from the space our fandoms started in.

COPPA is requiring all companies to not have minors verify their age with AI by April 22nd or they will face insane lawsuits.

Roblox has to remove their age verification. We win.

THATS ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!!!!!!!

Thank you for telling me this, Anon!!! This is the best news I've heard all day :D

SPREAD THE WORD, YALL. I KNEW IT WAS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE THEYD HAVE TO GIVE UP ON THIS AWFUL POLICY.

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BASICALLY AS I UNDERSTAND DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH THIS IS A DISCLAIMER AND I CAN BE WRONG - NOT FACT, if you don't pay your games are restricted to 16+, which would destroy the reason Roblox is such a popular platform in the first place. please spread this around, maybe if we strike we can do something.