The ongoing battle between creator Schlep and Roblox is escalating. During this time, creator Schlep recently announced his partnership with prominent YouTuber Law By Mike for filing a lawsuit against Roblox. As revealed, this collaboration is aimed at championing child safety. It’s focus is also on platform-wide reforms.
A video titled “WE’RE SUING ROBLOX,” too, has been released through Law By Mike’s YouTube account. It lays out some disturbing allegations against the platform. It has taken a direct head-on action against Roblox, accusing the platform of knowingly marketing itself as a safe space for children, while continuing to fail to prevent some systemic dangers.
Here is all we know about the viral video circulating video and its content.
Factual data revealed via Law By Mike’s “WE’RE SUING ROBLOX”
Law By Mike has released a video titled “WE’RE SUING ROBLOX,” of 10 minutes and 46 seconds. While it’s been confirmed that no actions have been taken yet through this partnership, the video did offer the world some facts. It talks about that all either didn’t know about or, despite knowing, chose to ignore.
Here is a list of factual points, as extracted from the video.
- Since 2018, the police have arrested 24 people. All of them used Roblox for contacting the young users and moved the conversations off-platform, targeting them.
- Roblox has reported 13,000 incidents on the platform in the current year. It is a significant jump from the previous year’s 3000 incidents.
- Roblox has 78 million users who daily log in. The platform also processes 50,000 chat messages every single second.
- Roblox has employed approximately 3000 human moderators.
- After safety petitions, public backlashes, and more, Roblox’s stock price dropped by approx. $12 billion.
- A Roblox safety petition was launched by Congressman Ro Khanna. It received 100,000 signatures in just under a week.
- Law firm representing plaintiffs claims that there are more than 800 cases that include abuse on Roblox. All of these are personal injury lawsuits.
- Until 2021, to create a Roblox account just needed a password, username, date of birth and no identity verification.
- As part of Roblox’s safety measures, it currently includes asking players above the age of 13 to scan their government ID. It also needs a selfie to access some features.
- Chat filters of Roblox, block phone numbers that are in digits. They, though, do not block them, if the numbers are in words.
- 8 current/former trust-and-safety employees have spoken about internal problems at Roblox. It includes ignored requests for more resources apart from the piled-up incident reports.
It’s important to note that all the pointers clearly give an idea about how Roblox, as a platform, is harmful for its audience. Despite it, the stand of the platform is intact. They aren’t directly taking any responsibility. Such inaction has caused a lot of concern for the young crowd.
With the video now being released through Law By Mike and the YouTuber partnering with Schlep, an action soon can be expected in line. Hopefully, it will prompt the platform to take some action and stand by it.
