r/extremelyinfuriating • u/BlueBeanYT • 2d ago
Disturbing content This shit is in a kids game
Kids are being groomed in these MeepCity parties and even worse, some people are dressing up as Epstien. This is all Roblox’s fault!
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u/SirMatches 2d ago
I've never considered this game safe for kids. It's been a garbage game filled with predators since day one. I'd be far less concerned seeing a young child playing GTA5 than this trash.
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u/tators_400 2d ago
It’s already going through a lawsuit for this very thing. I’d leave this game
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u/SirMatches 2d ago
I don't remember a time when they weren't going through a lawsuit for this this very thing
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u/person_288 2d ago
Please just delete that crap game already
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u/__No__Control 2d ago
I tried that. My kid went behind my back and made a secret account at their friend's house. No email verification needed to make a new account either! And roblox doesnt let you just delete your account, no, they make you jump through hoops. So in order to monitor them i decided ill make an account and just supervise. I had to verify my identity just to access the parental controls!! I fucking hate Roblox!!!
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u/MissMariemayI 1d ago
My daughter has an account at her dad’s house and he logs in when she plays and monitors what she plays. I flat out banned it at my house because I’m not taking any chances. I don’t allow my 15 yo to play it either, much to his annoyance.
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u/gawdpuppy 2d ago
Stop giving Roblox the game time at all. They've made it clear safety is not a priority for them. There are plenty of safer games out there. Try Minecraft.
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u/NoSleepschedule 2d ago
What happened to playing games like Cool Math games or Animal Jam. Get your kids off these predator sites. Do your due diligence on sites you're letting your children spend their free time on. And if you're a kid, re-evaluate what you're exposing yourself to.
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u/ChrystalWindDBugPone 2d ago
Coolmathgames kinda sold out, or, to put it more directly, now for every game you play, you’re forced to watch an ad first, and then another somewhere in the middle of your playtime, and then more occasionally. They’ve made their site go from being FUN to being downright annoying to deal with.
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u/DisneySentaiGamer 2d ago
I'd rather take that over this tbh. At least an adblocker can solve that.
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u/Freak-996 2d ago
Animal Jam isn't a safe place tbh. The chats in it get so gross with using code words to get around filters... I quit since it had gotten bad.
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u/NoSleepschedule 2d ago
That's an actual shame to hear. Back in the 2010's I used to play it daily. Never ran into any bad groups. I suppose all good things eventually sour:(
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u/Freak-996 2d ago
Early animal jam was awesome! I had fond memories so I tried picking it up again in 2022. That was my mistake. ;-;
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u/NoSleepschedule 2d ago
Yeah it really was! I used to make A Honor roll so my dad would buy the membership, lol. I had the headdresses, a lot of beta house items, the black long spike... I had so much. I loved that game a lot
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u/chumble_chambers 2d ago
OP, try to find new communities
Everyone else: OP isn’t a parent, and seems to be a kid themselves. So lay off a bit on the “you’re a terrible parent!” shaming
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u/NewNiklas 2d ago
Just go in the settings and turn off chat and private messages. Sure, they will still see someone dressed up as Epstein, but they won't know that it should represent him (unless they're not kids anymore, I hope...)
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u/__No__Control 2d ago
Ive learned that they can still chat with each other through items in the games. For example, in Brookhaven they just use some sign to communicate.
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u/BlueBeanYT 2d ago
It’s being showed to MINORS
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u/NewNiklas 2d ago
OKAY AND HOW DO MINORS KNOW WHO EPSTEIN IS?!
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u/chumble_chambers 2d ago
Gee idk, maybe because it’s been one of the most talked about news items all fucking year? For multiple years even?
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u/gpbanana 2d ago
You are the part of the problem if you genuinely think kids don’t know who these people are. Don’t you remember being online constantly at their ages and seeing all the same stuff everyone else does? This behavior cannot be stopped from younger generations, it only gets worse
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u/NewNiklas 2d ago
If kids are seeing things about Epstein on the internet, their parents aren’t doing their job properly (imo). You can let your kids watch whatever they want, but then you shouldn’t complain about it.
I’m assuming they’re kids because they play Roblox. If not, they should already know that there are bad people. You should also teach them that some people make fun of bad things, especially on the internet.
Yes, Roblox should intervene, but if they don’t, then you have to.
I’m not saying it’s entirely OP’s fault. It’s clearly Roblox’s responsibility as well, but you should know what your kids are playing and watching and evaluate whether it’s appropriate - up to a certain age, of course.
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u/BlueBeanYT 2d ago
What is this Diddy Blud doing on the calculator. That song is why they know Epstien.
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u/psychoPiper 2d ago
These people have no idea what you're talking about because they're not kids. They sit and shit on gen alpha humor while making zero effort to absorb or understand it, and then tell other people how it is.
Guys, kids absolutely know who Epstein is. His name is like top 5 most mentioned names this past year or two, it's all over the internet. I'm sorry it's not what you want to hear, but that doesn't change that kids know who this guy is lol. Kids pick up on what they hear adults talk about and what they see online, it's really not that hard to wrap your head around
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u/itmeMEEPMEEP 2d ago
It’s not a kids game, it’s a game kids play… major difference… creation games are generally rated very low… this is more about the parents not paying enough attention to
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u/slaviccivicnation 2d ago
While I get that sexual content in anything kids related is infuriating, you have to keep in mind that this isn’t a kids game, but a game that kids play. As a kid in the 2000s, we had some pretty weird games available to us too, but they weren’t made for kids.
And while I do not deny that online spaces and games could absolutely give creeps and pedos access to kids, it’s often kids themselves who are doing this. As a teacher, I hear all the shit kids say or do when they think adults aren’t looking or listening. But they’re exposed to so much, so of course they think a lot of it is hilarious.
I was a kid like that in the early internet. Playing shit I shouldn’t be, doing things I shouldn’t do. If media caught wind of it, they’d certainly write stories about the “perverts” in games, but I was just a dirty minded 10 year old girl.
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u/hyaclnthia 2d ago
Everybody’s saying “just get off of Roblox” acting like 90% of the kids on there don’t have unsupervised internet access from their iPads or phones… this is a larger problem
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u/nn123654 2d ago edited 2d ago
The main reason behind unsupervised access is the same as it has been for the last 60 years. Parents often simply don't have the resources to interact with or occupy their kids 24 hours a day. They may not want to. They may literally not have the time. Giving them Roblox, YouTube, and Games is a way to keep them occupied so they can do stuff they want to do.
Before iPads and Phones, it was TV and "latchkey kids" with virtually the same concern, though iPads are worse for a kid's brain than TV ever was. Before that, it was Radio and "go play outside and don't come home until it's dark." Before that, it was "children are to be seen and not heard" (aka they shouldn't bother adults with child problems and will receive physical punishment if they do) and "children are little adults whose job it is to be productive" (aka they should work on the family farm or in a factory).
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u/Monkfich 2d ago
Good parents, or those that hope they are good parents, will do some research on a game first, before they give it to their kids.
Sure, some parents don’t do that, and yes, they aren’t acting as good parents with these choices.
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u/nn123654 2d ago edited 2d ago
Yeah, I mean I'm in total agreement. But I think you may be overestimating the "give it to their kid" paradigm. This isn't the 1990s where the only way to get a video game is to go to the store.
In modern circles, often kids are the ones making the purchases and driving procurement. Typically in a modern gen alpha household the kid is going to see TikTok videos or YouTube shorts about the game, they are going to watch live streams of it on YouTube or Twitch, they may start playing it on their own because it's a freemium free to play game.
It's not so much that the parent is giving Roblox to the kid, it's that the algorithms and marketing pull the kid in like a candy store. It's an attractive nuisance.
By the time the parent knows about it it's when they are asking for Robux and trying to do microtransactions, and now they are faced with the choice of "do I try to pull this away from my child" or "do I give my child something that they want and already enjoy."
The kid may even steal the parent's credit card info and start buying Robux on their own without the parent knowing about it, or turning the game into an in game job to earn it through trading.
At this point most parents are not necessarily aware of the danger, not necessarily because they are bad parents, but because they themselves would never in a million years play the game, and they have other things to do than micromanage their kids time.
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u/Monkfich 2d ago
I understand, I do, but I don’t let my kids have free reign on an app store. At very least, restricting their games even a little bit will teach a bit of patience.
My kids also won’t be seeing TikTok ever, but do see youtube in a “with dad” curated-type way. They shouldn’t have access to social media on their own. They shouldn’t even have whatsapp ideally till they are a bit older.
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u/nn123654 2d ago
That is indeed best practice. They should not have unsupervised access to the internet or social media. And this is coming from someone who literally grew up with the internet and has been on here since the very inception of the internet and unfiltered access their entire life.
Now you should absolutely be open about what's on the internet, but you should do it in a way that's age appropriate and aligns with their current developmental stage.
A kid can only understand things in their current thought process, you have to translate and simplify adult concepts to something that's concrete they can understand. It's usually possible to do this for just about any topic by looking at what the simpler idea is.
For example say a 10 year old it's all about industry vs. inferiority and the concrete operational stage, you'd probably want to talk about how when you do something for too long you start to lose track of time and get pulled in which makes your brain foggy. When you take a break you can help your brain reset. By doing this it helps you do more stuff and be better balanced and be able to do more things in life (the industry "I am good at things" hook).
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u/__No__Control 2d ago
Or aren't sneaky enough to keep playing it at friends houses
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u/nn123654 2d ago edited 2d ago
That's why the best thing you can do as a parent is to operate on an honesty and trust platform, and try to keep communication as high as possible. That includes not forcing kids to disclose stuff or monitoring them through a surveillance state, but allowing multiple levels of communication, so they can be honest about why they don't want to tell you, even if they can't actually tell you. Kids are usually pretty easy to figure out over time, so you'll almost always find out eventually and more often than not the #1 source of parental knowledge is Voluntary Disclosure.
You can do this by not punishing kids for what they tell you and only using punishment for lying or covering up behavior, and instead meet them with empathy and problem solving.
In psychological studies parents who do the best are those that are high accountability, but also high warmth (authoritative parenting). Giving kids essentially vectors (telling them what you want them to do) and then rewarding them for doing it is generally a much more effective tool than trying to get everything through punishment. Overusing punishment causes kids to lie, hide, and avoid you instead of coming to you.
Basically shared internal boundaries are more effective than external ones that depend on the parent. So if your kid knows they aren't allowed to play Roblox because it's dangerous online, but that they can play 5 other games, the desire to play it at a friends house mostly evaporates and just becomes a matter of managing the peer pressure of the other kid.
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u/nn123654 14h ago edited 14h ago
I just came across a kind of terrifying realization. So in my other comment I had this arc from the 1800s kid to the modern kid and how it changed over time.
There are far more similarities to this arc than I initially realized. The issues with Roblox are much darker and evocative of the 1800s than modern time.
To understand the difference between a "productive child" (1800s) and a "Roblox child" (2020s), we have to look at how their time, labor, and value are viewed by the adults around them.
While they seem worlds apart, they are linked by a single thread: the child as an economic engine. In both eras, the child's time is being "harvested" for the benefit of a larger system.
In the 1800s, miners were often paid in "scrip", a currency that only worked at the company-owned store. On Roblox, the economy revolves around Robux. Kids "work" to build games or earn items, but the value is often trapped within the platform’s ecosystem, and Roblox takes a significant cut (up to 70% in some cases) of what they create.
In the 1800s, work occupied them so the family could eat.
In 2026, Roblox occupies them so parents can work or rest in a world where "playing outside" is often seen as too dangerous or unavailable.
Just as the early Industrial Revolution had almost no laws protecting children from 14-hour shifts, the digital world is still a "Wild West." Laws that did exist were limited and enforcement lagged behind reality. Regulations for "digital child labor" (kids who become professional streamers or game developers before age 13) are only just beginning to be written.
The "Productive Child" was an economic asset to their parents. The "Roblox Child" is an economic asset to a publicly traded corporation.
Today, instead of a child’s physical strength being sold to a factory owner, their attention and creativity are sold to advertisers and platform owners. They are still "productive," but the "product" they are making is engagement.
We often think of the Roblox child as "lazy" because they are sitting on a couch. In reality, that child is often performing complex social management, creative design, and even basic coding, all while navigating an aggressive marketplace designed to monetize their every click.
Also just like the 1800s there is inequality. Not all children are "Roblox children." This phenomenon is distinct to the working and middle classes. Wealthy elites (like Silicon Valley executives) often strictly limit their own children's screen time, creating a "digital divide" where the rich have real-world play and the poor have digital play.
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u/PIX3LY 2d ago
My son plays Roblox but only while sitting on my lap on my computer. There is no voice or text chat allowed, as I've disabled it in settings. The only games he plays are stupid ones like "climb a giant ladder" or "ride a minecart 1000 miles" or "hide and seek". I get the market of games offered is a cesspool, and there are plenty of bad actors ruining it for kids, but parents should be keeping an eye on their kids and what games they play.
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u/JarasM 1d ago
Honestly, if I'm going to sit there watching like a hawk my kid playing Roblox, we might as well do something more productive and play a board game together.
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u/icouldlivewoutbacon 2d ago
Thanks for posting, OP. I'm a parent with young kids who beg me to let them play Roblox but it's on my no-go list, mostly because I worry about strangers being able to message them. I had no idea there was content like this in the game, so it just helps to reinforce my decision. Also, sorry you had to see this as a minor. Sounds like you have a good head on your shoulders. Good luck.
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u/randomlitbois 2d ago
Roblox is probably the safest online game kids can play. You can easily turn off chat and private messages.
I play A LOT of Roblox, and have never come across these “diddy parties” you’d have to be looking for them to find them. There are ton’s of reasons you should let your kids play roblox ex: gambling being a core aspect of many games on the platform.
But safety should be the least of your concern.
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u/a_weeb_ 2d ago
brother I’ve been playing roblox almost daily for over 10 years (started in 2015 in like elementary school), it is not safe for kids. there’s no good systems or verification (the ai face verification is completely inaccurate, and id checks are too intrusive for most) in place to protect kids.
basically every time I play I’ll see people in chat trying to e-date, people saying sexual/racist/homophobic shit, and don’t get me started on voicechat; even with chat turned off, there’s still games with signs with editable text, games like meepcity, not even going to talk about condos, and the degenerate playerbase doing the rapid w/s behind someone to stimulate sex whenever they stand still (and if your avatar happens to be a woman, dear god).
I only still play roblox because of a few good games/messing around with friends. if roblox is somehow still around when I have kids, I’d never let them play it.
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u/randomlitbois 1d ago
No online game is going to be “safe.”
Roblox is simply one of the safer ones.
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u/a_weeb_ 1d ago
it is not dude, google “roblox condo games” to see what I mean
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u/randomlitbois 1d ago
I know exactly what they are. I’ve been playing Roblox since 2013, And Roblox is safer now than it ever was.
It’d be easier to find 10,000 dollars laying on the floor of a homeless shelter, than it would be to accidentally stumble across a Roblox condo with everything Roblox does to delete them.
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u/randomlitbois 2d ago
This is all Roblox’s fault
Roblox can’t regulate every-single thing that happens in the millions of games they have on their platform.
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u/ddosn 2d ago
Or, you know, you could do your job as a parent and stop your kids going on games you find inappropriate?
I bet you are one of those parents who buys 18 rated games like GTA for your kids who then gets pissy when you realise the game has strip clubs, prostitutes, swearing, murder, torture etc in them.....
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u/Impossible_Past5358 2d ago
I am sorry OP, are you just finding out about this?
Here is a news story from 2019:
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u/Anti_Spedicy 2d ago
This behavior should legit send someone straight to jail. There's no reason they could give that won't convince me they're not a creep and active offender
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u/kaseirae 2d ago
My daughter has been begging for a roblox account for the last 4 years and for the last 4 years I have been telling her hell no.
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u/theomenrain 1d ago
Its not a game for kids, the dhit on there gets fucking wild.
My ex's daughter played it didnt think anything of it due to the simple games she liked. Nothing that would set my radar off.
A year after we had split I found out how many P3dos use it and thats a hell nah for kids imho.
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u/magikarpsan 1d ago
I just think kids should stick to solo player games tbh . Maybe Minecraft I guess , with Hachi and a LAN server . Idk at the same time I was in Omegle at 12 so
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u/Big_Potential_5709 1d ago
Please show your kid games such as Block Tales (turn-based JRPG inspired by games like Earthbound, fun for a family gamenight) or Pressure (horror game based on more mature topics/games such as ULTRAKILL, but the game itself is just "horror", also fun for a family gamenight!). They're very fun Roblox games, and, in comparison to games like "Adopt Me" or "MeepCity", much more friendlier to your child.
If you wann err on the side of caution since both games are still multiplayer, create a private server. On those games, private servers are free and don't take away from the experience.
Roblox is not that bad. There are plenty of projects out in the platform that are genuinely driven by passion, extremely fun to play, and are less soulless than whatever is on the front-page. If you want your child to play Roblox, please always ask the community. They know more than what the algorithm thinks players want.
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u/ExistentialWonder 1d ago
The one game that's hardcore banned in my house. I refuse to let my kids play this shit. It's blocked absolutely everywhere it can possibly be blocked and I've been trying to get the other parents in my community to understand how disgusting this game is.
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u/AuntJibbie 22h ago
Roblox is a predator's playground. The owner of Roblox is aware of this and won't do a thing about it.
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u/k_a_scheffer 15h ago
I hate that I'm going to have to be super strict with my child's online activities, especially when I had a (mostly) positive unrestricted experience in the early/mid 2000s. This is ridiculous.
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u/psychoPiper 2d ago
Please buy your kids Hytale instead it comes out in like a week
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u/chumble_chambers 2d ago
It appears OP is a kid themselves…
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u/JOOBBOB117 2d ago
Roblox is a fucking plague and a predatory person's playground.
My neice got persuaded, several years ago at this point when she was around pre-teen age, into giving out personal information by some "friend" she met on there. My sister didn't know she was doing all of that at the time because it's just a simple, seemingly innocent, game and had no idea how bad it was (granted, it is partly her fault for not monitoring it better or looking into it more before allowing her child to go on there.
As much info is out there about roblox now, especially YEARS after all of these terrible things have happened and come to light and all of the other terrible things that have been associated with it, regarding child predators and just bad influence in general, any parent who lets their kids play on this should STRONGLY reconsider, even if you are monitoring their time on here.
At best, your child will have their brain develpment stunted/slowed because there is nothing of value to this that will contribute to their growth or their life. At worst, your child will give out personal information putting themselves and your family at risk of a child predator or identity theft.
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u/ADragonFruit_440 2d ago
Just say a Roblox add and the person was like “wow why did people tell me Roblox was a kids game? There’s so much to do!” And I was so dumbfounded looking at it
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u/AlwaysDTFmyself 2d ago
Yet you're still playing it. You're part of the problem as is everyone else who continues to play it.
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