• Reddit is better.
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    114 months ago

    Will someone please explain to me how a video game exploits children.

    • @OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
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      724 months ago

      Kids make maps. Stuff in the maps is sold for Roblox bucks. Roblox bucks cost money to buy. The kid who makes the map gets the Roblox bucks, and can sell them. The problem is you only get 30% back when you sell a Roblox buck.

      So kids spend time making big maps and servers, buying ads, getting shoutouts on YouTube/whatever, and Roblox takes a 70% cut from all of it

      • Reddit is better.
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        54 months ago

        Sounds like a normal business that gives kids a chance to make money.

        • The Quuuuuill
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          764 months ago

          Its exploiting child labor and the impulsive brain chemistry of adolescence.

          • @themurphy@lemmy.ml
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            34 months ago

            Fair enough, but couldn’t the same be said about YouTube? They also take the biggest cut of the ad money for creators.

            • The Quuuuuill
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              604 months ago

              Yes. Using kids to drive engagement on YouTube is exploitative. Parents who do that are exploiting their children

            • The Quuuuuill
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              384 months ago

              What would you call it when a child does work that you profit from?

            • @ZeroHora@lemmy.ml
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              23 months ago

              Is labor. There is a whole market of Roblox related things, there are job sites, freelance sites that employ kids to work on design/programming/marketing of these game modes. To pay them the game currency that maybe later can be traded for real money.

              Is not just kids tinkering with the game.

        • @mashbooq@lemmy.world
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          4 months ago

          A normal business, yes. Normal businesses are highly and cruelly exploitative, which is why we decided 80 years ago (in the US) that children, at the very least, should be protected from them.

      • Reddit is better.
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        34 months ago

        I said explain. It’s this old school thing we used to do where we JUST TELL A PERSON SOMETHING

        • @Randomgal@lemmy.ca
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          364 months ago

          I get what you are saying, and actually agree with out. But you don’t have to be an asshole about it. No one has the obligation to attend your tantrums.

          Children make games on Roblox (real games, the thing people do working in the industry), Roblox makes money off those games and pays close to nothing to the children. Therefore, exploits children.

        • @blackbelt352@lemmy.world
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          304 months ago

          The video is an explanation, none of us want to regurgitate multiple 30-45 minute videos that already explain exactly what your asking.

        • @mke@lemmy.world
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          4 months ago

          Sometimes, there are already resources explaining more clearly and thoroughly than we could. And although I’m unsure if this case qualifies, there are definitely topics that can’t be reduced to a few sentences. Thus, a reputable link is often worth more to both sides: it saves the explainer time and effort while informing the target far better.

          If you don’t want to engage with the content, I believe there are better ways to go about it than being rude to people who were likely trying to help.

        • Badabinski
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          43 months ago

          This comment is such a beautifully concise argument for the existence of block buttons. Toodles~

        • @LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          33 months ago

          No we didn’t. Telling people something was invented in 2016 by russian bots in Kamchatka on Twitter.

          Watch the video or feed it into ChatGPT for a summary or Google a pre-existing summary.