Sam Biddle

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246 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 22 Jan

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Infamous · Why Roblox Is Everywhere Right Now · 22 Jan 2026 podcast

I think it's being done to a degree inside Roblox that I have not seen, that I personally haven't seen in other games.

I would guess that the user base of Fortnite skews...

may be young, but there are also plenty of adults who are playing Fortnite.

It is not to the extent that Roblox is a world for children.

But also I think that Roblox as a company provides so many tools for game developers to create these very dazzling, whether it's a roulette wheel or some other kind of visualization,

They have gone so far out of their way to allow developers to create opportunities for quasi-gambling, whatever you want to call it.

I just find that Roblox is on the bleeding edge of pioneering and perfecting these techniques to manipulate children.

If you want to get Roblox PR very freaked out, mention the words child labor.

This is an extremely sensitive spot for them.

So yeah, I mean, a lot of the virtual items and the games themselves are created by children for an audience largely consisting of children.

And I believe if you are 13 years or older...

You can create stuff on Roblox other people can buy, and you can earn real money.

What's fascinating about that is that you are paid in Robux, not in dollars.

And then when you want to eventually earn real money, you have to then convert the money back into US dollars at a worse exchange rate than buying the Robux in the first place.

So you buy Robux at a far more favorable exchange rate than swapping them back for money you can actually spend at the bank.

I think it'd be very hard for them to deny that they are profiting on the work of children.

I mean, they are just in the most literal sense, right?

Children are working.

They are making money off of it.

There's a...

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