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Banichan@dormi.zone 2 years ago
Will someone please explain to me how a video game exploits children.
Donut@leminal.space 2 years ago
Banichan@dormi.zone 2 years ago
Just give me the broad strokes
Donut@leminal.space 2 years ago
Stop expecting handouts with 0 effort especially when the answer is one tap away.
MotoAsh@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Jeeze, he must work for Roblox with that level of expected free labor…
eratic@slrpnk.net 2 years ago
Lemme compile it all into a 20 second tiktok video
elgordino@fedia.io 2 years ago
You could start with this People Make Games video from a couple of years ago. https://youtu.be/_gXlauRB1EQ?si=Ttg4-Bust1K-X-22
Banichan@dormi.zone 2 years ago
I said explain. It’s this old school thing we used to do where we JUST TELL A PERSON SOMETHING
Randomgal@lemmy.ca 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago
Sometimes, there are already resources explaining better 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.
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 2 years ago
The video is an explanation.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Obvious bad faith argument
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 years 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.
eskimofry@lemmy.world 2 years ago
You must not be just a troll… but a mountain troll
paraphrand@lemmy.world 2 years ago
These guys explain it well, let them:
AstralPath@lemmy.ca 2 years ago
OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 2 years 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
Banichan@dormi.zone 2 years ago
Sounds like a normal business that gives kids a chance to make money.
Quill7513@slrpnk.net 2 years ago
Its exploiting child labor and the impulsive brain chemistry of adolescence.
themurphy@lemmy.ml 2 years ago
Fair enough, but couldn’t the same be said about YouTube? They also take the biggest cut of the ad money for creators.
Banichan@dormi.zone 2 years ago
“labor” 😂
emuspawn@orbiting.observer 2 years ago
The children yearn for the mines
mashbooq@lemmy.world 2 years ago
A normal business, yes. Normal businesses are highly and cruelly exploitative, which is why we decided 80 years ago that children, at the very least, should be protected from them.
Summzashi@lemmy.one 2 years ago
Can’t tell if you’re kidding.
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 2 years ago
Isn’t it more like 2%