Roblox Community General Thread

[FiveStarAce]

Unironically it could be possible to get the ESG fags to jump on this before the trend fully collapses. "Were shorting this company because they provide pedophiles with easy and unmoderated access to children" should be a fund managers wet dream. Before seeing this I didn't know much about roblox except that its a kids game like minecraft that made some waves in the investing world because it was part of the direct listing/SPAC boom during Covid.

So I decided to look up which publicly traded funds were the top share holders. Out of the top ten essentially all are passively managed index funds (VO, VTI) which invest in all publicly traded mid caps or every publicly traded company in general. The two exceptions are ARKK and ARKW, funds managed by Cathie Wood. Cathie Wood was already known but got extremely famous during Covid because ARKK was one of the top performing funds that benefited from huge investments in companies like Tesla. It's the type of fund thats popular with a lot of the "CLEAN ENERGY MAKES ME COOM, MY 401K IS SAVING THE WORLD" California liberals.

The price of ARKK has now crashed but it is still the 7th largest actively managed fund in the world. It is also the third largest shareholder in Roblox with an investment of $337 million out of Roblox's $25 Billion market cap. As an actively managed fund they are legally obligated to take the concerns of their shareholders seriously and can be contacted here. You are not required to prove you are a investor in ARKK just provide an email address. A major shareholder like ARKK is the only way Roblox will actually give a shit about anything like this, untill it affects their share price they will not care.

Interestingly there is one active fund shorting Roblox (BTAL), but they only have about a 1.2 million dollar position

WE CAN DO IT, REDDIT!

 

[delerious?]

Interestingly there is one active fund shorting Roblox (BTAL), but they only have about a 1.2 million dollar position

"Anti Beta Fund" lol.

 

[UERISIMILITUDO]

I've just finished reading this entire thread. I saw no mention of this post mortem explanation of the outage from years back:

https://blog.roblox.com/2022/01/roblox-return-to-service-10-28-10-31-2021/

I'll poorly summarize it: We have an advanced architecture with no central point of failure, except for that one part; oh fuck, that one part failed!

Yeah it existed in the 80s and early 90s but no little kids were going to be on ARPAnet.

I remember reading a recollection of exactly that. A child had logged in to a computer looking for games, bothering adults through the electronic mail system, and it took the guy in charge a little while to realize a child was accessing the government computer somehow.

Disappointing that the staff involved in porn can go along with such, but considering the banality of evil, I shouldn't be surprised; they just delegate the ownership and responsibility of their sins to someone else, voiding themselves of conscience, regressing themselves into animals.

They're Jewish.

I think the term p(a)edophile didn't exist yet, and certainly wasn't in common use.

Here's a fun fact: That word is derived from a Latin word which has the same spelling variation, PAEDICARE meaning to sodomize, and PAEDICO is a derived noun having the meaning of sodomite. This is the closest Latin word for faggot of which I'm aware, but I'm still learning and may find some nicer slurs later.

 

[A Qing Dynasty Classic]

My main beef with how Roblox and Discord handles the issue is the fact that parents just let their children use these apps without any supervision. Same with YouTube, they just want the kids to shut up so they shove an iPad in their face when they are old enough to hold one.

I know

but it is possible if somebody could compile a nice enough package, maybe some newspapers/NGOs could pick it up. It should be presented in the most normalfag/current year friendly way possible. It is a something that pretty much everybody considers a bad thing to do, it is happening on a platform that is frequented by millions of children so it has the emotional appeal as well.

Perhaps if Roblox corporation gets into a lot of flak for these child unsafety policies, as a publicly traded company that would force them to perhaps put in some more effort.

Sure Jurnos/NGO people are scum, but they are way better than these coombrained predators.

Of course, nothing would happen, considering doing actual moderation would take money, and unless they got some big lawsuit or something they won't do crap. Still, a curse of knowing these things is that, you can't do much about it. It's like seeing there is a fire and you can't do much about it. It sucks.

Well Roblox is getting sued as we speak for this exact reason (lack of safety for children). So I'd assume if this case succeeds, it'll either be a wake up call for other platforms to actually do something about the rampant sexual abuse present on these platforms, or they get sued too.

 

[Blamo2000]

Well Roblox is getting sued as we speak for this exact reason (lack of safety for children). So I'd assume if this case succeeds, it'll either be a wake up call for other platforms to actually do something about the rampant sexual abuse present on these platforms, or they get sued too.

Let's hope for the best.

 

[grand larsony]

Hey what's up guys, it's me, your favorite data collection autismo. I need some help but first let me explain. First, look at this thread if you don't know what you're looking at in this picture.
I've scraped ~11 million user profiles and ~10 million user groups from the Roblox API and this is the network graph of them. The orange ones are ones whose username or display name contains one of the following: abdl, bnwo, diaper, potty, bathroom. The green ones are ones with names that don't match that pattern.
I did all this after watching Reuben Sims' video and deciding to investigate myself. But I don't know the first thing about Roblox beyond the fact that it's a Minecraft-ish game, so I'm not sure exactly what I need to be looking out for in this graph or who I should take it to once I'm finished collecting data. That's what I need help with:
1. What other search terms can I use to flag sexual degenerates' accounts in this graph? I need search terms that are unambiguously associated with fetish content. For example I tried putting "toilet" in the search list in one render of the graph but that fucked it all up since "skibidi toilet" comes up a lot in contexts that (I assume) are innocuous.
2. Who can I take this to, and how can I get into contact with them? I'd like to blow the whistle on this as much as I can once I've collected more friends/followers data for the graph, and I'm happy to publish my findings or do calls explaining how this all works for anyone who's interested, but I want to make sure this effort isn't wasted. Reuben Sims seems like an obvious choice seeing as his video is what led me to this, but idk how to contact him or anyone like him
Looking forward to publishing more on this later

 

[Point Man]

1. What other search terms can I use to flag sexual degenerates' accounts in this graph? I need search terms that are unambiguously associated with fetish content. For example I tried putting "toilet" in the search list in one render of the graph but that fucked it all up since "skibidi toilet" comes up a lot in contexts that (I assume) are innocuous.

Roblox is a development platform directed at teens and children, because of this the site has a really stingy word filter. Explicit words aren't allowed and people have come up with terms to get around it. Some of them being something like "nom" which stands for vore, which gets caught by the word filter on the platform. Another series of words you might want to add are things like "condo, conscented, con," and other variations since these are slang terms for Roblox sex games, aka "Con games." Fun fact, these games got so bad that you can't say "condo" or "con" in Roblox anymore as they completely censored the words to make it harder to find such content. Other phrases I recommend are "fart" for obvious reasons and "TKL" which stands for "tickle" which leads to tickle fetish related content on the site.

2. Who can I take this to, and how can I get into contact with them? I'd like to blow the whistle on this as much as I can once I've collected more friends/followers data for the graph, and I'm happy to publish my findings or do calls explaining how this all works for anyone who's interested, but I want to make sure this effort isn't wasted. Reuben Sims seems like an obvious choice seeing as his video is what led me to this, but idk how to contact him or anyone like him

Ruben would be your best choice, yeah, but good luck finding anyone who will care and has the power to do something about it. Roblox is such a mega-corp at this point that most of their moderation is done by contracted pajeets in India.

The green ones are ones with names that don't match that pattern.

Are you color blind?

 

[grand larsony]

Roblox is a development platform directed at teens and children, because of this the site has a really stingy word filter. Explicit words aren't allowed and people have come up with terms to get around it. Some of them being something like "nom" which stands for vore, which gets caught by the word filter on the platform. Another series of words you might want to add are things like "condo, conscented, con," and other variations since these are slang terms for Roblox sex games, aka "Con games." Fun fact, these games got so bad that you can't say "condo" or "con" in Roblox anymore as they completely censored the words to make it harder to find such content. Other phrases I recommend are "fart" for obvious reasons and "TKL" which stands for "tickle" which leads to tickle fetish related content on the site.

Cool, added these and I'm running the scraper some more now. I've also started scraping follower data since I figured out how to use the API endpoint for that. Currently up to 11.8 million users, 12.9 million groups, and 254k follower relationships scraped. Gonna scrape way more data before I reach out to Ruben.
As for the coloration, uh, maybe I am? I mean they looks green to me lol. If you're referring to the gray, that's just the connections between the nodes, not the coloring of the nodes themselves.

 

[doodoocaca]

"Anti Beta Fund" lol.

Trap card sprung lol. This ackshually means they're going long on low-beta stocks (that is, low volatility) and shorting high beta (high volatility) stocks.

High volatility would be fucking Tesla or whatever
Low volatility would be mcdonalds or apple or something that's pretty stable.

 

[Dona Morte]

Ruben, a chapion of Roblox degen cleanup is requesting an audience with you good sir.

 

[LanceHaver]

1. What other search terms can I use to flag sexual degenerates' accounts in this graph? I need search terms that are unambiguously associated with fetish content. For example I tried putting "toilet" in the search list in one render of the graph but that fucked it all up since "skibidi toilet" comes up a lot in contexts that (I assume) are innocuous.

Just watch Ruben's videos, or even better, get in contact with the ModdingForDummies team and pull all the URLs that they have reported. Then scrape those URLs for usernames and then search that list for common phrases
I'd imagine the ModdingForDummies team already has a blacklist like this

 

[linchan]

View attachment 5555404
Hey what's up guys, it's me, your favorite data collection autismo. I need some help but first let me explain. First, look at this thread if you don't know what you're looking at in this picture.
I've scraped ~11 million user profiles and ~10 million user groups from the Roblox API and this is the network graph of them. The orange ones are ones whose username or display name contains one of the following: abdl, bnwo, diaper, potty, bathroom. The green ones are ones with names that don't match that pattern.
I did all this after watching Reuben Sims' video and deciding to investigate myself. But I don't know the first thing about Roblox beyond the fact that it's a Minecraft-ish game, so I'm not sure exactly what I need to be looking out for in this graph or who I should take it to once I'm finished collecting data. That's what I need help with:
1. What other search terms can I use to flag sexual degenerates' accounts in this graph? I need search terms that are unambiguously associated with fetish content. For example I tried putting "toilet" in the search list in one render of the graph but that fucked it all up since "skibidi toilet" comes up a lot in contexts that (I assume) are innocuous.
2. Who can I take this to, and how can I get into contact with them? I'd like to blow the whistle on this as much as I can once I've collected more friends/followers data for the graph, and I'm happy to publish my findings or do calls explaining how this all works for anyone who's interested, but I want to make sure this effort isn't wasted. Reuben Sims seems like an obvious choice seeing as his video is what led me to this, but idk how to contact him or anyone like him
Looking forward to publishing more on this later

What are the white areas? Are those inactive accounts?

 

[grand larsony]

What are the white areas? Are those inactive accounts?

The grayish areas are a shitload of overlapping node connections. Normally you'd be able to see them as individual lines, but in this case you can't because the nodes are very densely connected with one another, and because there's so many nodes

 

[Dire Dire Cocks]

View attachment 5555404
Hey what's up guys, it's me, your favorite data collection autismo. I need some help but first let me explain. First, look at this thread if you don't know what you're looking at in this picture.
I've scraped ~11 million user profiles and ~10 million user groups from the Roblox API and this is the network graph of them. The orange ones are ones whose username or display name contains one of the following: abdl, bnwo, diaper, potty, bathroom. The green ones are ones with names that don't match that pattern.
I did all this after watching Reuben Sims' video and deciding to investigate myself. But I don't know the first thing about Roblox beyond the fact that it's a Minecraft-ish game, so I'm not sure exactly what I need to be looking out for in this graph or who I should take it to once I'm finished collecting data. That's what I need help with:
1. What other search terms can I use to flag sexual degenerates' accounts in this graph? I need search terms that are unambiguously associated with fetish content. For example I tried putting "toilet" in the search list in one render of the graph but that fucked it all up since "skibidi toilet" comes up a lot in contexts that (I assume) are innocuous.
2. Who can I take this to, and how can I get into contact with them? I'd like to blow the whistle on this as much as I can once I've collected more friends/followers data for the graph, and I'm happy to publish my findings or do calls explaining how this all works for anyone who's interested, but I want to make sure this effort isn't wasted. Reuben Sims seems like an obvious choice seeing as his video is what led me to this, but idk how to contact him or anyone like him
Looking forward to publishing more on this later

As someone who plays Roblox (for exclusively Arsenal) this fucking sucks.

 

[LGHDR+]

data collection autismo

I think you found your tagline! Also, excellent work as usual! I wish I had more AI trophies for you.

 

[GamerGateSurvivor]

View attachment 5556327
Ruben, a chapion of Roblox degen cleanup is requesting an audience with you good sir.

I just want to talk to you... on a recorded line... with my legal team present... but trust me, I just want a friendly chat.

 

[TokiBun]

The most realistic thing you can do is just warn parents irl not to let their children play roblox. I brought it up recently to someone and they reported similar EPI type content being exposed to their kid through the game. Moral of the story: get your kid a switch and keep them off Roblox.

 

[UERISIMILITUDO]

Moral of the story: get your kid a switch and keep them off Roblox.

It's funny to look at the online multiplayer features in Nintendo games, while also considering that they have to make it impossible to groom children with them. The newest Mario game limits multiplayer communication to little character stands, and games like Splatoon make use of a limited vocabulary for communication; I've also noticed the ink is too broad a brush to write letters in a meaningful way. Unfortunately, Splatoon 2 had a feature allowing arbitrary artwork that would be used as graffiti in the courses, and it was a constant issue with faggots advertising their fucking Discord chats or writing homosexual messages in them; I had to report them constantly, but it was fun to see the same faggots whine on Twitter about being banned from making new artwork.

 

[HyperboreanRightsActivist]

Moral of the story: get your kid a switch football and keep them off Roblox play with them instead of letting the satanic little black box parent them.

 

[Freelance Police]

but it is possible if somebody could compile a nice enough package, maybe some newspapers/NGOs could pick it up.

The sad part is that this has already been done. A channel called People Make Games made two very successful videos going over how Roblox exploits its child developers (a very different kind of child exploitation than what's typically being discussed in this thread).

In Mary Rukavina / Erythia's thread I briefly go over very similar topics in regards to how Sonar Studios / Twin Atlas treats their employees and "volunteers". Here's the website dedicated to the allegations against their company.

Obviously Ruben Sim's entire channel does a good job identifying the issues with sex predators, pedophiles, and content moderation on the platform, enough so that he's already gotten sued by Roblox.

I also recall somebody here posting this wonderful article on how Roblox facilitates literally hundreds of pedophiles (but we all know the number is likely far bigger than that, I'm sure @grand larsony would have a better idea of an approximate figure than Roblox fucking does).

Allegedly Roblox outsources their moderation to some pajeet company called iEnergizer (I'm pulling this information from their shitty wiki so make of that what you will). Regardless of how automated or how outsourced Roblox moderation is, it doesn't work. Hell you can even go to the Roblox dev forum right now and find multiple threads of developers complaining about Roblox moderation and the lack of moderation tools.

For those who are largely new to the Roblox scene and are trying to figure out what exactly is going on here, everything above is a good place to start.

That sad truth is that Roblox does not care. It doesn't matter how much bad rep the site gets, everybody on the Internet with a neuron in their brain already knows how dogshit of a site Roblox is. Lazy parents will not give two shits about it. You can point fingers at all the nasty shit that's happened on Roblox as much as you want, but most parents will go to Best Buy or Walmart and find Roblox cards by the checkout and assume they must be a reputable company. Most of the children playing on Roblox literally do not have the capacity to realize they're being exploited. Roblox will continue to be willfully negligent of these glaring issues plaguing their platform until somebody or some entity cuts off their bottom line. The fact that these dumb motherfuckers have openly stated their plans for expanding the age demographic of games on Roblox when they're already suffering from and are very aware of the pedophile and moderation issues on Roblox is a testament to both their stupidity and their negligence.