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Hellfire103@lemmy.ca to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months ago

Roblox CEO wants adults to use platform as a dating service - Dexerto

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Roblox CEO wants adults to use platform as a dating service - Dexerto

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Hellfire103@lemmy.ca to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months ago
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Roblox CEO David Baszucki has doubled down on his hopes of allowing the video game platform to be a place where adults can go on dates.
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  • HikingVet@lemmy.ca
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    That’s not concerning at all… fucking hell, wasn’t there a report saying there was predators in that game?

    Why would adults use a kids game ( my understanding of roblox) as a dating site?

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      The phrase you’re looking for is “X-rated pedophile hellscape”.

      https://bhr.stern.nyu.edu/quick-take/a-new-report-alleges-that-roblox-remains-an-x-rated-pedophile-hellscape-and-what-this-says-about-the-need-for-regulation/

  • altkey (he\him)@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    ‘Dating on the younger side’.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    Isn’t their big problem that what’s already happening?

    • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.world
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      Back when my kids were into Roblox they’d go on there with their friends for the express purpose of finding and reporting pedos.

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    He probably thinks this will keep people from ageing out of the game.

    I doubt that is how it will work, though.

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    Yet another CEO out of touch with the user base of his platform. Mr. Baszucki, 30 year old uncles have been using Roblox for… “age-gap fantasies” since day one.

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    Good luck competing with VRChat

    Through movie screenings, concerts, and mixers, all hosted in the virtual space, adults can get to know one another on a more intimate level. To Baszucki, it’s a solution to a modern problem, a “loneliness epidemic” as he called it.

    No. It is NOT a solution, it’s another monetization of loneliness

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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    Lmfao what

  • frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io
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    Ewww

  • 🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.world
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    can I assume that he meant that as it’s userbase of 12 to 14 years old age into adults they could use Roblox to meet partners, instead of introducing hookups to what is basiclly a children’s app?

    not going to defend them, it just the story makes little sense. and that interpretation makes a bit more sense.

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    Oh good, now Roblox porn will become a thing. Start laying by that bricc dicc.

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      Unfortunately, roblox porn is a thing already. Just like minecraft porn.

      • muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works
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        I guess everything went down the same path Second Life did.

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    My local radio has been spamming this ad about some ongoing suit against Roblox because the platform apparently made it too easy for molesters and such to get to kids. So wtf

  • SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works
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    Howsabout Roblox CEO uses platform to go fuck himself!!!

    • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
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      I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s already fucking others on the game

  • 🕸️ Pip 🕷️@slrpnk.net
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    Ffs Second Life is already a thing

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    ……no

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