Roblox is a online game platform and game creation system developed by Roblox Corporation that allows users to program games and play games created by other users. Created by David Baszucki and Erik Cassel in 2004 and released in 2006, the platform hosts user-created games of multiple genres coded in the programming language Lua. For most of Roblox's history, it was relatively small, both as a platform and a company. Roblox began to grow rapidly in the second half of the 2010s, and this growth has been accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Roblox is free to play, with in-game purchases available through a virtual currency called Robux. As of August 2020, Roblox had over 164 million monthly active users, including more than half of all American children under 16. Although Roblox has received generally positive reviews from critics, it has faced criticism for its moderation, microtransactions, and exploitative practices directed toward children.
History[]
Roblox was used to called Interactive physics in 1992 and in 2004 it was Dynablocks which David Baszucki and Erik Cassel worked on. The Alpha stage of Roblox began. The first game was called John's Puzzle game which was made in Roblox in 2004 and Admin was the first user to join. In 2006, the Beta stage starts and thousands of players joined. Roblox developers begins to created various games like Crossroads, Sword fights on Heights, Doomspire Brickbattle, and Natural Disasters Survival. The most notable one was Shedletsky which he was a noble star of the old Roblox community. Brick battles or fighting games were popular during the 2006-2012 until survival games came just like Left 4 Dead type of games. Roblox begins to be controversial in 2012 from Shapiro bot supporters and the 2012 April Incident. In 2014, the Twitch stream incident never happens (In OTL, it did).
Roblox during the 2015-2020[]
Roblox was banning Ben Shapiro supporters and politics was ruining the Roblox platform until 2015 when Roblox shutdown. After the shutdown, Shapiro supporter bots ends but last longer from the LGBTQ hate. Roblox oof sound becomes an internet meme. Roblox releases the R15 and the future of Rthros. Roblox toys were made and sell in Target, Walmart, Best Buy, etc. In 2017, the community went big when RDC announced that Rthros will be rejected and UGC becomes early in 2018. The Bloxys in 2017 became controversial which Albertstuffs became the winner but was a channel that was not supposed to be for younger viewers. Meepcity was created. In 2019, the LGBTQ hate ends as Ben Shapiro was not running for election and Meepcity's parties was never created. In 2019, RDC announced that Roblox was now going to have concert events but they still keep the Seasonal events. 2020 made the Roblox community bigger because of Covid-19.
Further to 2022[]
In 2021, Roblox Egg Hunt 2021 exist instead of Metaverse Champions and a way of a Metaverse of Roblox was never an idea giving the Metaverse idea in the internet never happens which came to the fall of Facebook. Meepcity was never controversial and continues being kid-friendly. Tubers93 hacks Brookhaven and since Tiktok was never created in this timeline, the Roblox Youtube community falls and Tubers93 isn't a cringe thing. Kreekcraft was never famous and EthanGamerTV still continues fame. The Denis vs Ethan battle begins as a race to 20M subs as Ethan wins. As Tiktok never came and RP games never being popular gives the Roblox community no toxicity. Egg hunt 2022 is surprisingly having over 120 eggs to collect which gives more time to players as it ends from March-July becoming the most expanded event in Roblox history.
Community and Culture[]
Racism[]
Users of Roblox have been noted for their efforts against racism, with numerous regular users and co-founder Baszucki having declared their support for the George Floyd protests and Black Lives Matter. In August 2019, an investigation by NBC News revealed over 100 accounts linked to far-right and neo-Nazi groups. After being contacted about the accounts by NBC, Roblox moderators removed them.
Controversy on Brookhaven[]
In 2020, Brookhaven and Meepcity were enemies for racing as the most popular RP game and in the 2021 awards, Meepcity won the Best Roleplaying Game. Brookhaven was the least voted one since of widespread racism and sexist. Brookhaven failed to create Roblox a toxic place until 2022 as Roblox deleted the game and the creator was banned and the most favorite Criminal vs Swats was moved to a group called ROLVe which is famous for its FPS games.