Radar Naughty List: Roblox
- Michael Costa
- 2 days ago
- 11 min read
Roblox is one of the most popular online platforms in the world, marketed as a fun, creative space for kids to play games and build worlds. With millions of daily users, it is a virtual playground where children as young as five can dive into endless user-generated content. Roblox has recently come under fire for failing to protect children from sexual predators and grooming on its platform, leading to sexting, extortion, sexual harassment, "pixel pedophiles," attempted rape, and possible child abduction. State-level lawsuits have been filed by attorneys general in states like Texas, Louisiana, and Kentucky, plus over 30 family lawsuits alleging Roblox enables child exploitation through weak age verification, easy bypassing of chat filters, and user-generated content exposing kids to predators.
Beneath the colorful avatars and blocky graphics lies a dark underbelly: Roblox is infested with adults preying on minors, making it a notorious hotspot for child grooming. Nearly everything on the site (games, groups, and chats) is created by users, leading to rampant unchecked content. Many experiences include voice chat and even camera options, allowing strangers to interact directly with kids in real-time. And when it comes to LGBTQ+ themes, the moderation is virtually nonexistent, with groups openly pushing transgender ideology on vulnerable children.
Predators target and groom their victims on Roblox and pressure children into moving the conversation to Discord or Snapchat, which are private and less monitored than Roblox." We have seen this pattern before: platforms that claim to be safe for kids but end up funneling them into off-site Discords filled with explicit discussions and predatory behavior. Roblox takes it further by allowing groups, including those targeting "trans" youth, to publicly advertise these external servers and links, often loaded with inappropriate content and suspicious motives. Our attempts to contact Roblox developers about these issues were met with silence; they just pointed us to generic moderation articles on their site, none of which address grooming, queer content, or the blatant risks to minors. It is clear: Roblox is not protecting kids. It is enabling the predators.
Roblox thrives on user-made communities, where players can build groups with custom logos, descriptions, dedicated servers, roles, and leadership teams. These are not just innocent clubs; many explicitly target minors identifying as transgender or LGBTQ+, guiding them toward radical ideologies and off-platform dangers. Roblox labels many of these as "Minimal Maturity," meaning they are deemed "suitable for everyone," including ages five and up. You read that right: content accessible to kindergarteners that leads straight to explicit Discords.
Take the LGBTQ group, with over 29,000 members. Their club meeting server, titled "LGBTQ | Resource Center," is labeled "Minimal Maturity" by Roblox, appropriate for ages 5+. It owns both a Discord and an X account, and the Discord is a nightmare.Â
A video of furries was shared in the main chat, showing one sucking on another's neck. The club's information board and regulation board instruct users to have "admiration" for all staff members and bizarrely consider religious content NSFW or inappropriate.
They have staff members as young as 13, hosting seminars where they boast about "presenting growing and developing individuals with the resources and opportunities to make a change." This is grooming disguised as empowerment.
Even larger is All For Love LGBTQ+, boasting over 90,000 members. Their server, "Club Pride," is also "Minimal Maturity," in this case meaning suitable for everyone. With over 500,000 player visits, it allows voice chat and assigns roles for all sorts of LGBTQ+ identities to players of any age. No barriers here; kids are thrown in with adults under the guise of "inclusivity."
Then there is Transgender Haven, with over 1,500 members. The group wall is a cesspool of disturbing discussions, all seemingly involving children. One girl is told she might be genderfluid; another is encouraged to take testosterone. Kids openly talk about dysphoria, with custom pronouns everywhere.
It links to a Discord server, openly available from Roblox, explicitly for children/minors only, per server rules. Parents beware.
Transgender Pride follows suit, with another easily accessible Discord from Roblox. Group roles promote transgender themes, and wall chats feature a girl wanting a haircut to "pass" as a boy, her Discord username publicly linked. More conversations reveal the same predatory encouragement, all aimed at minors.
The biggest "LGBTQ+" group? The Furry Project, with over 202,000 members. Yikes. Their Discord and game, "Furree Islands," are labeled "Moderate Maturity" for ages 13+, but includes voice chat with no real age restrictions. Furries often overlap with explicit content, and this massive community funnels kids right into it.
These communities are not isolated; they are interconnected, with Discords hosting unregulated chats where adults mingle with minors. Roblox's hands-off approach means these groups advertise off-site links without consequence, leading kids to places with zero oversight. At its core, Roblox is not one game. It is a hub for user-created "experiences," many laced with transgender and LGBTQ+ themes that influence children of all ages. Ratings range from all-ages to 13+ or 17+, but enforcement is laughable. Countless games push these agendas, complete with voice chat and cameras that turn playtime into potential grooming sessions.
One prime example: [PRIDE] LGBTQ+ Vibe by Marizma Games, with over 51 million visits. It has voice chat, and characters spawn with default "they/them" pronouns. Players (ages 13+) can customize with a wide variety of LGBTQ+ identities. We could not find a trans-focused server with age restrictions; minors are allowed everywhere, chatting with adults.Â
Pride flags are available for purchase with real money. Predators bribe children with gifts to gain their trust and take advantage of them.
LGBTQ+ Hangout, with over 121 million visits, features voice chats with no age verification.
Pride-themed minigames round it out, all open to minors. Pride flags and custom labels dominate these games, turning the space into a virtual pride parade for children and adults. And let's not forget the dating games. One game explicitly aims to help players find partners, with voice chat and camera, still rated "minimal maturity."
There have been at least three lawsuits filed against Roblox by state attorneys general and over 30 individual lawsuits have been filed by families of children who were exploited by groomers on Roblox. Some of the groomers were already on sex offender registries or had been accused of abusing minors. As of November 2025, efforts are ongoing to consolidate the individual cases into a federal multidistrict litigation in the Northern District of California, with a hearing scheduled for December 4 before the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation. The state-level suits include one filed by Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill in August 2025, alleging Roblox facilitated systemic sexual exploitation through inadequate safety measures, chats, and games that enable grooming, including the distribution of child sexual abuse material and failure to protect or warn users despite known risks. Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman followed in October 2025, claiming the platform prioritizes profits over moderation, creating a hunting ground for predators to extort and abuse minors, and labeling it the website of choice for child predators due to weak safeguards and deceptive marketing as safe for kids. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed in November 2025, accusing Roblox of violating safety laws, deceiving parents, and allowing exposure to explicit content and grooming for corporate gain, specifically putting pixel pedophiles and profits over the safety of children by not implementing effective measures against predatory threats.
Among the family lawsuits, a wrongful death case filed in California involves a 15-year-old boy groomed via Roblox chats and blackmailed on Discord with explicit images (sextortion), leading to his suicide, with claims that Roblox's inadequate systems enabled the abuse. In New Jersey, a man was charged with abducting an 11-year-old girl he met on Roblox. A 10-year-old girl from California was abducted and assaulted by a man who groomed her on Roblox. A man was arrested in Florida for sexually abusing an 11-year-old girl he met through Roblox games. In Iowa, a 13-year-old girl was KIDNAPPED, trafficked, and sexually assaulted by a man she met on Roblox. The man created a fake account that made him look like he was a minor. He then befriended his victim and, after gaining her trust on Roblox, persuaded her to move their interactions to Snapchat. He discovered her personal information and kidnapped her while she was at a family member’s house. The kidnapper was able to send the victim sexually explicit and romantic messages on Roblox, even though the victim’s account had parental controls on and should have blocked this type of content.Â
A Georgia suit from September 16, 2025, details a six-year-old girl groomed in-game by an adult posing as a peer, then coerced into explicit images on Facebook due to design flaws and lack of safeguards. Another Georgia case on September 11, 2025, describes a 10-year-old boy targeted at age nine by multiple predators with explicit messages, images, videos, and extortion threats, blaming unrestricted communication and poor moderation. A Michigan lawsuit filed August 28, 2025, alleges an 11-year-old girl was groomed in a military-themed game by a predator posing as a 14-year-old, coerced into explicit images, and assaulted in person at a motel after moving to Discord, highlighting voice chat and off-site escalation risks.
One girl alleges that she was lured into pornographic Discord chats where strangers asked her for sex.
An emerging pattern across these lawsuits is minors being lured off Roblox onto other platforms like Discord, often escalating to real-life dangers such as sexual assault, extortion, or suicide. For instance, a California suit from August 24, 2025, involves a 12-year-old exposed to explicit condo games and manipulated via private messaging, leading to exploitation and claims of negligence in removing abusive content. A North Carolina case on August 19, 2025, claims a 10-year-old was groomed with Robux incentives before explicit demands on external apps, accusing Roblox of lacking age verification and exploiting its economy for abuse. An Alabama lawsuit filed July 10, 2025, details a 14-year-old groomed on Roblox by a predator pretending to be a peer, escalating to explicit content on Discord and an attempted real-world rape stopped by police, blaming design failures and poor enforcement. A Florida suit from May 7, 2025, alleges a teenage girl who started at age 12 was groomed via games, leading to explicit content, blackmail, emotional trauma, depression, and a suicide attempt, citing lack of safety controls despite known risks. Many of the remaining cases follow similar trajectories, highlighting Roblox's alleged negligence in moderating user interactions, age verification, and off-site links, particularly in user-generated communities that funnel children to unregulated spaces with predators, though Roblox maintains it has strong systems and has introduced new AI age verification tools in response to these concerns.
In a recent interview on The New York Times Hard Fork podcast, Roblox CEO David Baszucki walked into a barrage of questions about the platform's endless child-safety scandals: predators grooming kids, lawsuits from multiple states, and reports showing how laughably easy it is to bypass every filter. What was supposed to be a victory lap for his shiny new AI face-scanning age verification turned into an instant disaster when Baszucki described the entire predator crisis as "not necessarily just a problem, but an opportunity as well" to reinvent how kids communicate. Hosts Casey Newton and Kevin Roose hammered him on Hindenburg's accusations of growth-over-safety and actual child abductions tied to the app, only for Baszucki to get defensive, brag that Hindenburg had collapsed, demand high-fives for tiny concessions, and complain that he thought they were going to talk about fun stuff instead.
His answers poured gasoline on the fire. He kept repeating that Roblox is "an amazing platform right now for your kid" while dodging every example of simulated rape experiences and child-accessible strip clubs, then pivoted to pitching "brilliant" educational prediction markets that sounded a lot like gambling for ten-year-olds. Critics instantly branded the whole thing a car-crash PR catastrophe, with the CEO coming off clueless, combative, and completely unprepared for scrutiny his own team scheduled. Instead of calming worried parents or lawmakers, the interview only proved how deep Roblox's problems run and left the company's image more radioactive than ever as demands for real regulation get louder by the day.
Roblox CEOÂ David Baszucki knows kids are the core audience but pushes ahead with his vision of Roblox as an adult-oriented platform, including as a dating app. In a podcast interview with TechStuff, he highlighted metrics for popular games on Roblox, while doubling down on adult appeal: "he also highlighted his continued vision for Roblox as a more adult-oriented platform." He knows there are children using Roblox, but he still wants to bulldoze ahead and use it as a dating app, allegedly for adults, yet the reality is a free-for-all where predators thrive.
From Discords full of sexual chats involving 11-year-olds to games encouraging testosterone injections and sexual topics, the evidence is overwhelming. Roblox's minimal maturity labels expose ages five and up to this filth, and their developers ignore pleas for real moderation. With voice and camera features, they are gateways to real-world dangers and child abduction.
Roblox has landed itself on this year's Gays Against Groomers Naughty List. It remains an active danger to millions of kids. Parents: delete the app today. Lawmakers: keep the lawsuits coming and put them out of business for good. We encourage all political leaders to come together and ban this monstrosity on a federal level. Until then, keep your kids far away. Roblox is a pedophile-infested death trap, and your family could be next.
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