Isn’t it more like 2%
Comment on Roblox gets banned indefinitely in Turkey over “child exploitation”
OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 4 months agoKids 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
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
Banichan@dormi.zone 4 months ago
Sounds like a normal business that gives kids a chance to make money.
Quill7513@slrpnk.net 4 months ago
Its exploiting child labor and the impulsive brain chemistry of adolescence.
themurphy@lemmy.ml 4 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.
Quill7513@slrpnk.net 4 months ago
Yes. Using kids to drive engagement on YouTube is exploitative. Parents who do that are exploiting their children
Banichan@dormi.zone 4 months ago
“labor” 😂
Quill7513@slrpnk.net 4 months ago
What would you call it when a child does work that you profit from?
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Doesn’t matter what you call it. It’s profitable and you know that’s what’s meant.
ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 4 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.
emuspawn@orbiting.observer 4 months ago
The children yearn for the mines
mashbooq@lemmy.world 4 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 4 months ago
Can’t tell if you’re kidding.