cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/8679072
In recent times, a cult has spawned revolving around the Roblox spawn symbol (this is actually real). It worships a god known as “The Spawn,” represented by that spawn symbol, which allegedly allows people to respawn after death, seemingly in a Roblox-like world for followers of the cult.
The cult began as a joke inspired by the lore of a Roblox game called Forsaken, where a character named Two Time follows a similar spawn cult that, like in our reality, is false in-universe.
As the cult grew, a more serious and far more sinister part of it emerged. Adults began to groom minors in to sending inappropriate pictures of themselves along with having them harm themselves by carving the Roblox spawn symbol on their bodies.
Recently, the unofficial leader (known as “Chezble”) of the cult has been exposed by their own father as a person who is into diapers, their reputation is now suffering a massive hit. But that was not before “Chezble” announced that they had successfully groomed a minor into committing suicide along with wishing them well in their second life. I have also heard anecdotes about other people who have killed themselves over the cult, believing that they would “respawn.”
Dark times we are living in.
I mean this isn’t the right way to frame things. The right way is this is a distraction from the actual problem which is child sexual grooming on roblox being an epidemic. This or making a child kill themselves “for satan”, either way the pretext is just a sensational distraction from the actual problem.
The child grooming potential from roblox despite their moderation and heavy censorship systems is due to capitalism. It is due to capitalism because it is a monetized game. The monetization provides an incentive to lure children to predators who are willing to pay for game-bucks for them and encourages the children to meet them, to talk to them, to stick around and be groomed by them, to do sexual things for money for them, and to enable the children to be potentially blackmailed by those acts if that wasn’t enough into further acts.
Roblox itself is the disease with its disgusting monetization system which creates this world where any child predator with a few hundred or thousand dollars to blow can get children who just want some shiny game things their minds have been groomed by corporations to crave even at the expense of their safety to cooperate with, even seek out predators.
Frankly, ban children from playing games with monetization systems like that and lootboxes. Or ban the games from using them if they target or are found to have a large population of under 18 players they can’t get rid of. Roblox is a pedophile corporation. One of many. It grooms children, it exploits children, it opens them up to further predation and profits off it.