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Banichan@dormi.zone 10 months ago
Will someone please explain to me how a video game exploits children.
Donut@leminal.space 10 months ago
Banichan@dormi.zone 10 months ago
Just give me the broad strokes
Donut@leminal.space 10 months ago
Stop expecting handouts with 0 effort especially when the answer is one tap away.
MotoAsh@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Jeeze, he must work for Roblox with that level of expected free labor…
eratic@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
Lemme compile it all into a 20 second tiktok video
elgordino@fedia.io 10 months 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 10 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 10 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 10 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 10 months 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 10 months ago
The video is an explanation.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Obvious bad faith argument
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 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.
eskimofry@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You must not be just a troll… but a mountain troll
paraphrand@lemmy.world 10 months ago
These guys explain it well, let them:
AstralPath@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 10 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
Banichan@dormi.zone 10 months ago
Sounds like a normal business that gives kids a chance to make money.
Quill7513@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
Its exploiting child labor and the impulsive brain chemistry of adolescence.
themurphy@lemmy.ml 10 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.
Banichan@dormi.zone 10 months ago
“labor” 😂
emuspawn@orbiting.observer 10 months ago
The children yearn for the mines
mashbooq@lemmy.world 10 months 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 10 months ago
Can’t tell if you’re kidding.
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Isn’t it more like 2%