https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roblox_ban_protests_in_Russia

One of the sources is titled: “Two National Bolsheviks were detained at a protest against the blockade of Roblox in Tomsk, a city in Siberia” pooh-wtf

Also features an official called “Vladislav Grib”, “grib” means “mushroom” lmao

  • Azarova [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    Nazis groom children on Roblox into becoming nazis, so its possible that’s why. I think TrueAnon may have done an episode about it.

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    A Russian speaker here: nothing too dramatic. Roblox was banned for bogus reasons back in the day, and with parliament elections oncoming they decided to loosen the roblox thing up a notch to gain some ez young vote.

    Well, not exactly gain vote, everyone knows it’s rigged, the goal is to drum up just enough support for the ruling party that folks would buy it. With most of the security apparatus dedicated to the war atm Putin is right to fear a Belarus scenario with bloody protests that can turn into a civil war. Of course, not over Roblox, but you gotta let some steam off

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    The Roblox CEO is a member of Peter Thiel’s recently exposed fascist secret society, BTW. Puts all the evil shit happening on Roblox in a new perspective, doesn’t it?

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    Roblox has a lot of groups that larp as military, and has literally had controversy about another military games assets being leaked. Assets of and about what? Well, how about nazi Germany? It was sold online after the leak, but I digress, Roblox is filled with unironic nazi larpers, and don’t mistake them for being teens since they also do age checks, especially now that there is an age limit for chatting