Roblox is Darker Than You Think (ft. Ruben Sim)

parents beware monsters are among us he was arrested because he took a 13 year old child across state lines police said the 13 year old girl met graham on roblox what you're looking at on the screen right here is probably the biggest roblox news we're gonna have all year long yeah roblox the multi-billion dollar company is suing a youtuber for 1. 6 million dollars that's more money than i've ever made in my entire life in this documentary we talk about the questionable things that roblox is doing to kids then we go over a youtuber who was sued by roblox for 1. 6 million dollars and we have him here today to give us a never before seen look about what happened so stay till the end as we take you on a journey through the dark side of roblox let's say you have an idea for a game maybe it's a quest from a beautiful princess to slay a monster or an adventure through the galaxy in a spaceship whatever it is there's a problem it's going to be hard to make you have to model that monster place each star in the galaxy and code everything from scratch and that's if you know where to start but what if i told you that you could easily start building your game right now well you can welcome to roblox you might be thinking roblox is just a kid's game right well this kid's game is home to a massive adult player base but when there are adults on a platform initially intended for kids as you'll see in this video terrible things can happen you have roblox games that expose kids to things even i shouldn't see and of course there are preds reeling in their young victims so how did this happen this is eric castle and his friend david bizuki they met in the late 80s when eric was working for david's company knowledge revolution in 1989 they released a program called interactive physics it was a game that would let you create your own physics experiments in 2d it was a huge hit the company was sold for 19.

2 million dollars but they didn't stop there looking back they realized that the game was a hit with kids so in 2004 they decided to make another game a game that would give players the tools to make whatever they want and the way they did this was genius they made this game run on a coding language called lua which is one of the easiest codes to learn why because they were not only making a game but a virtual game studio so that anyone who learned the simple code could make games themselves but that's not the genius part this meant that david and eric never had to create a single game they could sit back and watch as young developers created more and more games on the platform and this platform is roblox it was brilliant at least at first millions of kids go on roblox every day to play with their friends but over time the site has changed and not for the better this former kids game now has a huge adult player base and a lot of the games created are just disgusting from games that make kids gamble to fetish games then you take them to the tickle chamber and voila they get tortured and tickled there's a lot of games on roblox that are basically like six games that people make just for people to go in and have role plays with each other sometimes they actually make it on the front page roblox has been working on combating these games on the platform but the thing is the people that make these i think that they must be making some sort of money off of them because the levels that they're going to conceal them from roblox are insane ruben explains why he thinks more adults have joined roblox i think that the reason why a lot of adults have started using roblox lately is because they really focused on monetization for developers and they've kind of advertised the website as a way for people to make money it used to be people just made games for clout they just wanted people to know them and to be famous on the website but once they added the devex the focus changed from just wanting to be popular in the small little community to wanting to get rich and in turn roblox corporation just gets richer it was a smart move but the problem is roblox seems to have shifted from wanting the best for their users to wanting the best for their wallets and in this next chapter i'll show you exactly how roblox really doesn't care about you roblox says that their mission is to connect billions of people with optimism and civility they enable anyone to imagine create and have fun with friends the statement is crucial because this is roblox promising it's incredibly young users that they have the power to create anything so how true is this so what if you want to customize your character on roblox when you go through their catalog of items a lot of the items are free but what if you want something cooler than just hairstyles and a trench coat well you need robux robux is the currency on roblox almost every item in the catalog requires you to spend at least 10 robux so how do you get them can you earn them through playing rarely for the majority it cost real money the lowest amount you can pay on the roblox website is five dollars for 400 robux which isn't much when you realize that a lot of items are over 100 robux but it's not just items users are paying for creators have the ability to give their games their own game passes that cost robux and some games require you to buy a game pass before you can even play them but creators have it bad too if a creator needed sound effects like sword slashes there's a limit on how many audio files you can upload per month a premium member can upload up to 100 files a month but a non-paying user can only upload 10. that's less than the amount of sound effects used in the original super mario brothers this is just one of the many ways roblox is telling us they don't care for people who can't fail their wallets and it just gets worse as a roblox game creator if you want your game to actually have players roblox makes you advertised there's hundreds of ads for games all over the website so how could your ad possibly be seen you have to win an auction so there's an advertising system on roblox that works based off of bids where you put a specific amount of robux down and your ad competes with other people's ads and other people's bids if a lot of other people are bidding on the same day that you want to advertise your game your reach is going to suffer from that so even if you do put your money forward someone can spend more money than you and your chances are gone and as far as roblox is concerned shame on you for not spending enough there was even one instance where roblox actually stole money from one of the games ruben advertised we were spending like upwards of 10 000 robux which is around 100 to advertise our game and not only were we getting outbid by other games but our ads were getting moderated after we posted them and got them approved by the moderators so we upload an ad a moderator sees it says it's okay to appear on the website and then we pay 10 000 robux for a bid and then after we pay that money they come back and they tell us oh this ads actually not appropriate and we're going to take it down and we're not going to give you your money back and after this headache if your game does become a hit you get paid but not much for every 50 000 robux you earned you would get about 175 us dollars but after we did the math that's not even half of what 50 000 robux is actually worth on roblox every transaction that takes place between two users has a 30 tax attached to it and they call that the marketplace fee so most people are under the impression they keep 70 of the money that they make off their game and ultimately what you collect when you cash out is closer to 25 roblox is underpaying its users by less than half of the amount they're owed i mean to me it's pretty clear that roblox doesn't see its users as people to them we're just walking moneybags waiting to be empty it used to be a place where kids could express themselves and their ideas but now it's become a trap and kids are falling for it the easy interface of the roblox studio only takes hours to understand and maybe a month at most to learn the code it uses but after hours and hours of making the game they've dreamed of these kids are forced to fork over money they probably don't have to get people to play it or else watch their game rot and die just like most of the others what you're looking at on the screen right here is probably the biggest roblox news we're gonna have all year long yeah roblox the multi-billion dollar company is suing a youtuber for 1. 6 million dollars it definitely ruined my thanksgiving because the whole time i was having turkey with my family i was just thinking what am i going to do when they're asking for 1.

6 million dollars that's more money than i've ever made in my entire life imagine this you're a simple youtuber using roblox to make content reuben sim is one of those creators but he was hit by an unexpected surprise roblox was suing him for 1. 6 million dollars so let's take it back to how rubin first got permanently banned from roblox he explained to me that he pointed out that roblox game developers were treated differently than average users he explained that a developer posted an email address on the roblox forum but posting an email address wasn't allowed so ruben reported it but nothing happened reuben tried to repost that same post from his account almost word for word and he got a warning while the game developer got away with it and when he checked the game developer's post it was edited and the email was removed but what's crazy is that at that time there was no way to edit posts so that must have meant that a staff member or moderator went through and did that for him no other user on roblox would get that type of treatment unless they were making company a lot of money and when i started pointing this out i started getting banned on every account that i made and i think that someone at roblox just decided that i'm too much trouble for the website and that i needed to go away these bands would eventually stop happening to ruben and he was even able to create a game on roblox when i made my own game i think i went two years without being banned and i applied for the developer exchange and they actually accepted my application i was making money off of them they were actually sending me payments and i really believed that i was welcomed back on their website again and then a few months later they turned around and they hit me with a lawsuit this was just the beginning of his long uphill battle with roblox and roblox didn't even come to him first to let him know about the lawsuit ruben got an email from his partner manager that read hey man how did polygon reporter reach out to you about a lawsuit filed against you by roblox want me to forward that to you sorry to hear this is going on it sounds like some bull and he didn't believe it and at first i thought that polygon was being trolled because i couldn't believe that roblox was actually going to sue me but unfortunately it was all too real the day before thanksgiving i woke up and i checked my phone and my twitter inbox and my discord inbox are full of people saying stuff like good luck ruben i hope you get through this we wish you the best and it's odd that he was the last to know about this and i thought it was really weird that a journalist from polygon knew about this lawsuit before i even knew about it before anyone knew about it and i think that the only way that that's possible would be if someone tipped them off if someone really wanted them to report on that the lawsuit showed that roblox was angered by ruben sim for many reasons on paper and some of their accusations were double standards they state that i tweeted an image of one of their openly gay staff members which has been photoshopped to depict him nude this is completely false this staff member was actually roblox's social media manager and he posted those pictures himself and he thought that it would be a good idea while working at roblox as their social media manager to post nudes of himself on tumblr where anyone could see them ruben didn't photoshop anything he was just showing what was already there during the roblox employees time at the company roblox never stopped the blogs nor did they acknowledge it before the lawsuit so essentially roblox was trying to punish ruben for the bad decisions they made roblox went as far as finding evidence against him from when he was just a kid so roblox literally looked up infractions from my childhood to use against me in a legal document when i'm 25 now i thought that was ridiculous this whole time while i'm reading this legal complaint i'm thinking like aren't there files on roblox aren't there predators that have groomed hundreds of kids why am i the one that's being targeted with a lawsuit when there's way worse people out there who are way more deserving of something like this what's interesting is that ruben brought to light many issues on roblox including calling out child preds but somehow he's a bigger threat it's clear that roblox doesn't want to change because change costs money i mean why else would they sue ruben for 1. 6 million dollars that's more than he's ever made in his entire life not only that but they requested that ruben sim have all of his social media accounts deleted roblox might just be trying to silence the truth about preds on the platform ruben explained what could have happened if he didn't take action on the lawsuit if that had happened then there could have been a court order telling me i have to delete my youtube channel and i feel like to roblox that would have been a big w for them because all the videos about me complaining about files on their platform would have disappeared roblox made a huge mistake in suing reuben because it brought to light roblox's darker side so people started to dig a bit deeper including us and what we found is just disgusting [Music] parents beware monsters are among us he was arrested because he took a 13 year old child across state line police said the 13 year old girl met graham on roblox how can you tell that a person you're talking to online can be trusted especially one you just met roblox allows anyone to interact with anyone and just as much as this site has brought kids together it's also made them targets when your platform is made and advertised for kids people with awful intentions will flock there and some of these horrible people will even climb the ranks and become some of the most influential people on roblox mr obvious was a youtuber who created animated skits using roblox mr obvious was a bit of a celebrity on roblox because back in 2013 he won a video creator award from the company needless to say he was widely respected until 2017 reuben sim was contacted by someone who claimed they had evidence that mr obvious was grooming a 15 year old girl while he was 22 years old where reuben discovered was horrifying there were videos of mr obvious touching himself and he sent the videos to this girl and other children so i want you to know that the bottom part here is really sensitive the most most infant i had videos of him that he sent to children and you could hear his voice in these videos and you could compare them to the animations that he's created and confirm that it's him and there were countless screenshots of him saying the most sickening things to this young girl and she wasn't his only victim as word spread about what he was doing more and more young girls came forward to tell their stories the evidence against him piled up and he didn't react well to it mr obvious attacked anyone who spoke out against him he publicly shamed the girls who told their truths and denied the allegations with every excuse he could create he even went as far as faking his gender to seem innocent but it was too late there was one piece of evidence so convincing that he just couldn't fight mr obvious deleted all his accounts to prevent any more evidence from getting out but ruben discovered one thing that he forgot to delete his soundcloud in rubin's video he made a comparison of the singing on soundcloud and the whispering in the videos they were identical but what's scary is that roblox did nothing i uploaded a video about it that really quickly got almost half a million views and at the end of it i told people write an email to roblox ask him why his account is still up i'm assuming thousands of people did that and still nothing happened even though he had all of this evidence that he was grooming kids and that he was a vile it was only after four years that roblox terminated his account he scarred many kids and roblox still didn't learn their lesson because this happened again with an even bigger creator i'm referencing the youtube channel people make games sonic eclipse online or seo was an incredibly popular roblox game based on the sonic the hedgehog series created by a roblox developer with the username dr rofatnik his game was one of the most beloved games on the platform little did they know what doc was doing in 2020 evidence was released that depicted doc having explicit conversations with a 12 year old girl and at that time doc was 24 years old the things he said were disgusting and the evidence was all there but it wasn't enough for some people this 12 year old girl made friends with the people in the seo community but they still all sided with doc a response video was released by doc and the seo development team defending doc and his actions the dms that were exchanged between jaden and the victims were not okay but jaden is by no means a file and this is what doc has to say for himself i know i shouldn't have said those things regardless of the context while i will not defend myself for the things i said explicitly i will protect myself from the blatant attempt at character assassination the effect these words had on the victim was heartbreaking i did actually self-harm after the response video came out i mean i thought my reputation was destroyed now what's surprising though is that roblox did take action against stock by banning his account finally roblox's first step to helping but it didn't solve the problem before roblox could ban his account doc turned over the ownership of his game sonic eclipse online to another roblox account it's possible he planned ahead for something like this this meant that he could still actively work on the game and continue to receive revenue from it so did roblox ban that account as well nope there was even an update blog that doc narrated that showed him as the owner and director of the project and still roblox didn't lift the finger but someone else did on december 29th 2021 seo was taken off the roblox website the reason because sega the creators of sonic the hedgehog didn't want their creator to be associated with the accusations around doc and they demanded that the game be taken down only then did roblox listen the fact that roblox will ignore people who fight for change on the platform a caven only when a billion dollar company asks is disgusting to this day doc's account is still active and he created a new game these are only two examples of preds on roblox but clearly not the last just last february a 13 year old girl had been missing from her kansas home she was found outside a dollar general 12 hours away she was assaulted several times by a man more than double her age his name is howard g howard had groomed her on roblox throughout the month graham encouraged the team to run away from home he drove all the way to topeka to pick her up bring her back to georgia according to the police report but his plan failed when howard's roommate found her and helped her escape in an article about this case roblox had this to say we work tirelessly to prevent grooming on our platform we have a team of thousands of moderators and enforce a strict set of community standards on roblox including zero tolerance of sexual content of any kind i mean this is a pretty general statement for a crime as awful as kidnapping so i've only talked about three situations and that's just publicly but there are thousands of other preds roaming this site that haven't been brought to light yet so the visual venture team did an experiment roblox has some questionable safety filters and i am here to prove it this is super monkey ball 2010.