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Roblox has been knowingly allowing fraud and theft to run unchecked on their platform for 4 months, spitting in the face of creators. We've told COUNTLESS @Roblox staff about these issues, but they refuse to fix anything. Here's @KreekCraft talking about it: (Thread 🧵) #Roblox

🔗 Marketplace link: roblox.com/bundles/472529…

Roblox just dropped another animation pack 👀🔥 "Glow Motion" is now on the catalog for 250 Robux

@ClocksetY That's really odd. Do you have vid of it? Only thing I can think of is if it was a pose or an anim with few keyframes that got matched to another existing one

@Shift4D Nope. It’s the first and only time I’ve uploaded it anywhere

Roblox is also deleting people's original emotes along with all the duplicates - I just received a warning and had my appeals declined for "copying" an emote that I created...

@4Lulzy How'd you get 7000? I counted less than half of that on Rolimons

Live: Duplicate emotes being wiped from the catalog, Roblox is automatically detecting and deleting copies ❌ 7000~ emotes deleted thus far rolimons.com/marketplace/de…

@Setalcix You can check recently deleted UGC on Rolimons. There's a wave of approximately 97 pages of emotes that were taken down back to back (at the time of writing this) rolimons.com/marketplace/de…

@Shift4D how do you know about this?

🚨 BREAKING: Roblox just removed close to 3000 emote copies from the catalog

Smite hammer rework for @haz3m_😄 VFX: @VisuallyFX SFX: @boarhaven #RobloxDev

Tagging some folks who maybe like me, might've actually believed Roblox would be transparent and follow up soon: @_monithepro @DuckXander @Empyror @cantfindshirt @idealxyo @nonbinary @lukashmny @DipyBrick @LeiS8n @Mq3z7i @Altimox_ @timehasmodified @LuckyMatrbx @Zarcyn1 @flyerguy2100 @BarneyHunter12 @idkclarkie

Hey @KreekCraft, Roblox seems to have lied about updating us Our work has been stolen every day for 6 months now, and they haven't said a single other word publicly in that time

Roblox prioritizing shareholders over creators is not surprising at all; they are a public company, and that's their duty. If you want to understand the direction the company is heading, don’t look at the marketing aimed at creators. Read how they talk to investors vs how they talk to developers and artists. In investor communications, the focus is on scalability, efficiency, margins, and AI-driven growth. In creator-facing messaging, the word “AI” is often avoided entirely, replaced with vague buzzwords like “real-time dreaming” or “4D.” That disconnect is calculated. The strategy is clear, though: leverage developer and artist content to train their own AI labs and reduce dependence on human-created UGC over time. Whether that future arrives in 2 years or 10, the direction is obvious. At the end of the day, platforms under investor pressure look for ways to scale content creation without scaling payouts. It’s visible in earnings calls, investor decks, hiring patterns, and the language used, depending on the audience. Creators should pay attention because the story told to shareholders contrasts with the one told to them. What do I know? I've been on both sides: as a successful UGC creator and now as a UGC game/platform. I met with many of the big companies you can think of and was part of many discussions on monetization and business strategy for those businesses. I know this space from the core; I started from absolutely nothing and worked through every aspect of the business. But hey, that's just my personal opinion ;)

@lukashmny @Roblox This group has also stolen multiple animations from me, and are engaged in fraud as well. It needs to be taken down asap @robloxdevrel

how long does it take for you to take big thieves down? @Roblox verified, no warnings, keep on earning money on reuploaded emotes! Top Selling and you guys simply dont care? Well thats what it basically looks like. I cant be that hard to manually sort out the TOP... like trust me if you would care you would want to cause i even did it in my own game 🙃 roblox.com/communities/33… @robloxdevrel #RobloxDev #RobloxUGC

@Roblox How about also clearing up what you promised us over a month and a half ago while you’re at it too?

It's true. Clearing things up here 👉 devforum.roblox.com/t/completing-t…

“Being loud works” Try telling that to the Roblox community

@TheMysteryPl4ys Maybe it's just my monitor or something, but the new RGE eyes seem overexposed or something and it's making it look like they're blending in the middle

Lowkey got improved.. your thoughts?

@DavidBaszucki Stop ignoring everyone posting about the removal of 2D faces. No one wants to look like this David

Our new Acoustic Simulation (Beta) supports real world audio physics. Walk behind a wall and your audio will be occluded just like in reality - all automatically. devforum.roblox.com/t/client-beta-…

The dynamic heads post by Roblox now has over 2000 replies and only 48 likes If that doesn't send them a message then idk what will

@VomitingKira I hate that it’s a dice roll with this company. Everything to gain or everything to lose, no in between

@Shift4D either that or the eyes will have an actual glow effect that will make it 10x more valuable but knowing roblox its probably the former

Seeing how Roblox operates now I wouldn't be surprised if the dynamic head version just became two red ovals with absolutely zero glow effect

@ReverseRBLX They definitely need the love 😩 Don't know who's working on them but I just hope that they don't start making them all uncanny as hell

@Shift4D it would be awesome if they commissioned UGC creators who love these classic faces to make updated versions but that will never happen