#boycott roblox

[strawberry-offical]

so tumblr agrees we NEED to boycott roblox right?

right??

[b0xcr3etur]

its nice that we're all cursing/hexing/protesting David Bazucki and Roblox and all that stuff but we really should've been doing it back when age check was revealed and added.

Why did it take you guys this long to start all this??? All because of classic/static faces being removed? A bunch of children are being groomed from this verification method, FOUR went missing this past month (Maybe more. My condolences go out to the families), and their STUPID partnership DOING these face checks are stealing children and adult's faces to train their ai models. Someone could make CP of a child in private and we wouldn't know.

Children are in danger more than ever. Why did removing classic faces push you to protest.

Get your priorities straight, and protest for the safety of the children. Our brothers, sisters, and cousins are in danger thanks to the ceo blindly following the AI trend and refusing to properly get real moderators.

Protest for the children. Not the faces.

Petition to sign. It may not do much, but it'll at least spread the word around.

This campaign needs you now

Remove Roblox's Age Group Update

If you actually read this, thank you.

[transavian]

As someone who creates content revolving around Roblox and prominent characters from it—and as someone who is sourced from it himself—I feel responsible to comment on what the platform has become in recent years.

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.

Please don't stop creating. Boycott Roblox.

[awobbles]

Reminder to NEVER give a social media or game your face or idea from the purpose of “age verification.” ESPECIALLY if they use Persona.

[niltail]

Aight guys so i have 3 ideas for protesting against Roblox's coroprate suicide (Removing classic faces)

Because I'm 98% sure this cursed image thing ain't doing shit.

Option A; The most peaceful option:

-Spam david bitchzooka's mailbox/roblox support with long, drawn out letters that describe all the things they should be doing

Option B; Moderate option:

I don't live in the USA so i can't really do this... but to anyone who lives in the california area near Roblox headquarters;

-Drive there with signs and other peaceful things.

-Block people from entering the building and surround it

-DO NOT FIGHT! THE PROTESTS THAT MADE A DIFFERENCE IN HISTORY DID NOT USE FISTS!

Option C; Final resort:

So, I've bee seeing a few Builderman thirst posts, and that gave me a devious silly plan.

Draw freaky David art and spam tag him in it online. Eventually, It'll be the top result when his name is searched. Broski will not live it down

Starting a new tag: RobloxianRiot

EDIT: i'm not losing it just over the classic faces, that is annoying, but minor compared to the fact that David said that gambling for kids is a good idea

[npd-mephone]

I genuinely wish my generation cared enough to boycott. In example, this new roblox chat thing? Can be fixed with boycotting! Dont play it, and eventually they'll realize why their playerbase is going down suddenly and fix it.

[sodaluu]

ROBLOX NEWS!!!!

so roblox banned Schlep for catching predators???? Thats so disgusting. They care more about making money than protecting children.

I wont be posting Roblox art until this problem is resolved. If youre able, please reblog the video, watch it and share it. Schlep deserves justice, as a minor who has been harassed on Roblox AND tumblr he’s doing amazing things, my bio says im a minor so it should tell people i dont want flirted with. But seriously roblox needs new management that actually cares, people are disgusting!!!

BOYCOTT ROBLOX!!!!!!!!!!!

[cadenthesilly2763]

This Roblox update sucks absolute ass 🫩🥀

idk if @nogpawkit was tryna chat with me when we were in sewh but I literally couldn’t see anything cuz I’m in the 13-15 group :(