Roblox is a platform full of different types of videogames, usually tycoons, obbys (obstacle courses) and "horror" games. Roblox is extremely popular for children.
Everything seems fine at the beginning: colorful scenarios full of lego like characters, but this is only the surface.
Roblox is full of groomer pedophiles.
This has been known for multiple years, (unsurprisingly, for what can one expect about an infantile game with a CHAT function).
Recently a self-styled groomer hunter named Schlep was banned from the platform, causing a huge scandal since the company does little to prevent grooming in the game.
Another problem is that some creeps make their degenerate videogames in the platform but fail to ban younger people.
This is more infuriating when you realize most of the games in the platform are trash, and your children would be more entertained flipping a water bottle or fingering car keys. If you play without using robux (Roblox money), it's essentially a walking simulator in poor quality scenarios. Brain rot made a game.
In general I would recommend avoiding multiplayer videogames with chat. Some like Minecraft do offer the possibility of entering a server; however, unlike Roblox, you can play them without having the possibility of talking to weirdos.
Reading this article from Bloomberg, I get the impression Roblox's groomer problem is by design. It would be so easy to simply take away the Chat feature, but Roblox refuses to do so, insisting instead on "regulating" the content, a recourse that has proved to be ineffective and will fail to protect everyone.
Furthermore, as I mentioned before, playing comfortably is virtually imposible without Roblox money, which provides to the predators an easy way of baiting the children who can't stop playing Roblox. (Ie., serve me and I will give you free robux)
If you insist on letting them play, monitor their gameplay, but I don't see why would anyone let their children use Roblox when there are so many free mobile videogames without open chat, and so many family friendly options like Nintendo or Cool Math Games.
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