Valuetainment - ＂THOUSANDS Of Sexual Assault＂ - Roblox Grooming Allegations Spark DARK Investigation

00:00:00.000 Let me ask you a question.

00:00:00.780 How many of you here play Roblox?

00:00:03.180 Who's played Roblox?

00:00:04.480 Vinny, have you ever played Roblox?

00:00:05.920 I honestly don't even know what it really is.

00:00:07.940 Tom, have you played Roblox?

00:00:09.160 No.

00:00:09.980 Rob?

00:00:10.380 But I know I know it.

00:00:11.800 My children do, but supervised, but I have not.

00:00:14.320 You have not.

00:00:15.200 Obviously, you don't.

00:00:16.060 I've never even heard of it.

00:00:17.080 Okay.

00:00:17.840 So I'm not going to come to you.

00:00:19.120 The only Roblox I deal with is when I'm running late on 95,

00:00:21.900 and you're like, why are you running late?

00:00:22.700 I'm like, it's a Roblox.

00:00:23.400 Not that Roblox, Adam.

00:00:24.960 It's a Roblox.

00:00:26.360 I don't know what it is.

00:00:27.240 Let me read this, and Brandon, I'm coming to you.

00:00:29.400 Or the pimp can't break a 50.

00:00:30.680 So let me tell you, even though if you don't know what's going on,

00:00:34.460 Roblox user accused of soliciting Florida child after parent reports explicit chats.

00:00:43.480 So here's the one thing that's going on in video games that parents are not paying attention to sometimes.

00:00:48.980 Some parents are on top of it.

00:00:50.260 Some are having a hard time with this because it's like, what else do you want me to monitor?

00:00:55.140 So let me read this to you.

00:00:56.220 Florida authorities recently arrested a man accused of soliciting a child through the popular gaming platform Roblox.

00:01:01.620 The rest was announced.

00:01:03.220 Rob, is there a way we can turn on the AC a little bit like this place?

00:01:06.640 I feel like I'm in a freezer right now.

00:01:07.540 My legs are numb.

00:01:08.760 I see Vinny shivering.

00:01:10.100 I'm like this.

00:01:11.200 Can you tell them to just like this?

00:01:12.660 I'm going to tell a story like this.

00:01:13.020 So Roblox, their parents are just pedophiles on there.

00:01:16.360 I'm freaking freezing.

00:01:17.440 I hear maracas, but I know there's no maracas in here.

00:01:19.900 No, it's me, Tom.

00:01:20.700 Guys, I haven't even read the story yet.

00:01:22.240 We can eventually get to the story here.

00:01:24.080 So let me start all over.

00:01:25.020 Roblox user, Florida authorities recently arrested a man soliciting a child through the popular gaming platform Roblox.

00:01:32.200 The rest was announced by the Flagler County Sheriff's Office FCSO on November 7.

00:01:37.420 The suspect, Brandon Rodriguez Silva, 20, of San Jose, California, has been charged with transmitting material harmful to minors by electronic device and soliciting a child for unlawful sexual conduct using a computer service device.

00:01:53.760 According to authorities, Rodriguez Silva allegedly engaged a Florida child on Roblox and encouraged them to move to the messaging app Discord before eventually swapping cell phone numbers.

00:02:04.640 The suspect told the victim that he was 18 years old and lived in California, began requesting nude photographs.

00:02:11.140 The press release read,

00:02:11.740 The messages between the suspect and the child contained numerous sexually explicit texts and photographs, but no nudity.

00:02:17.840 The victim's parents ultimately caught wind of the conversations and reported them to authorities.

00:02:23.740 Fortunately, this parent acted as the sheriff in their home by reviewing their children's message and contacting law enforcement immediately after discovering a stranger was attempting to take advantage of their child.

00:02:34.040 The sheriff said, the sheriff said, FCSO said that the arrest was more than two years in the making.

00:02:39.780 It took two years to get to this point.

00:02:41.460 OK, so when you look at statistics with Roblox, Brandon, I'll come to you and I've got a bunch of different things I want to talk about this.

00:02:47.480 But your thoughts on this?

00:02:48.980 The first, so I've never played the game either, but I wonder why they can't just simply like automate it so that stuff like that can't be spoken about on there.

00:02:59.880 Or like it gets flagged if they're requesting pictures, especially those type of pictures or saying those type of things on there.

00:03:06.220 Because, I mean, it seems like a pretty simple thing to do, and it seems like a pretty big liability for the company if that's happening.

00:03:11.580 So that's like my first common sense thought is why don't they have things in place that could catch that or keep that off of there.

00:03:20.280 And, yeah, I mean, I think it's played too many video games.

00:03:23.060 I hear like a lot of people talking about this game.

00:03:25.440 So, yeah, both those things, too much video games and why can't you do the common sense thing of just filtering that stuff out and not allowing it on there?

00:03:33.320 Yeah, Tom, what do you think about this?

00:03:34.840 Well, I think you don't need Kapersky. 1.00

00:03:37.300 You don't need Norton.

00:03:38.740 You don't need McAfee.

00:03:39.960 You need parents.

00:03:41.560 And I'm going to take you down through this.

00:03:43.520 I was ready for this question.

00:03:45.620 Roblox is catching all the publicity right now because it's open and the private chat features.

00:03:50.680 Now we know they've been exploited by predators.

00:03:52.960 But let's go through the list.

00:03:54.380 Minecraft has extensive multiplayer and live chat.

00:03:58.980 In other words, while you're playing the game in an online cloud-based world, it's been a target for predatory attempts.

00:04:04.380 Fortnite, voice and text check systems have been exploited by adults to get inappropriate contact.

00:04:11.280 And there's multiple cases by the FBI busting predators on Fortnite.

00:04:16.020 Discord, it's not a game, but it's widely used for game chat and game-related chat.

00:04:21.720 And it's been the center of a big grooming case.

00:04:25.600 Twitch, live streaming platform.

00:04:28.620 Kids can stream and interact by live chat, showing their, you know, your kills or your gaming escapades.

00:04:35.720 And they have found that they've actually been able to exploit children through video and chat features inside Twitch.

00:04:42.860 And then you, the risk mechanisms are simple.

00:04:46.240 If you don't supervise your kid and there's live intercontact available through that gaming platform, then there will be predators in there attempting to initiate inappropriate contact.

00:04:57.500 That's the way it is.

00:04:58.380 Parents need to be stepping up here. 0.90

00:05:01.080 And yes, all of the technologists behind Twitch, Discord, Fortnite, Minecraft, Roblox, there, everybody's upset with me.

00:05:08.040 They all need to be putting in filters and controls and do a better job because law enforcement has found cases on all of them.

00:05:15.460 By the way, so let me read you a couple of them.

00:05:16.840 So here's a few stories.

00:05:18.360 Outside of the one we just reported and some data for you guys to know, 85 million daily active users as of early 2025.

00:05:24.640 That's how many people play Roblox, 85 million, 40% of the players are under the age of 13.

00:05:31.980 Okay.

00:05:32.600 And when you look at this Fairfield man, September of 2024, last year pleaded guilty to molesting a 10 year old girl whom he met on Roblox.

00:05:41.240 New York security guard, September of 2024, last year arrested for coercing an 11 year old girl into explicit content.

00:05:48.620 California boy suicide, April of 2025, 15 year old Ethan Dallas allegedly groomed on Roblox.

00:05:54.640 Discord leading to his death.

00:05:56.920 Mother sued for wrongful death.

00:06:00.020 Kidnapping cases.

00:06:00.900 A 27 year old California man charged with kidnapping a 10 year old girl may have 20, 25, a 37 year old Illinois man.

00:06:10.680 Iowa man accused of abducting and abusing a 30, 13 year old girl.

00:06:15.180 Ongoing lawsuit.

00:06:16.640 A Delaware man kidnapping an 11 year old girl, New Jersey, October of 2023.

00:06:21.040 State lawsuits.

00:06:22.460 Louisiana, August, 2024.

00:06:23.940 Suit for enabling predators in experiences like escape to Epstein Island, Texas, 2025 for ignoring safety laws.

00:06:31.660 Kentucky, other similar to that.

00:06:34.220 Over 35 parent lawsuits allege exploitation with one firm investigating thousands of claims.

00:06:40.600 Vinny.

00:06:41.280 Thousands of claims.

00:06:42.220 Bloomberg reported 24 Roblox related arrests by 2024, plus six in 2025.

00:06:50.340 Roblox has introduced over 145 safety measures in 2025, including age estimation for chat access, banning under 13 from direct messaging, outside games, prohibiting image video sharing, and using filters to block personal info.

00:07:04.880 So it employs AI moderation, 24, seven human teams.

00:07:07.520 They're doing this, right?

00:07:08.680 Because of some of the cases in November of 2024, it added content categories and barred adults from chatting with under 13 year olds and experiences.

00:07:16.920 Roblox denies claim, calling them misleading and appealing appeals ruling.

00:07:22.580 California judge denied arbitration in a father's case.

00:07:25.920 They kept it public.

00:07:27.060 There are so many stories I can tell you with what's going on here with Roblox.

00:07:31.140 29% of Roblox players are 9 to 12 years old.

00:07:35.140 22% are 13 to 16 years old.

00:07:38.820 17% 17 to 24.

00:07:41.640 15 of users are actually under 9 years old.

00:07:45.460 15% of Roblox users are under 9 years old.

00:07:50.740 And only 17% of Roblox players are over the age of 25.

00:07:55.160 So this is the part when you're looking at all the exchange and the conversations that kids are having and parents are sitting there kind of trying to monitor and see what is the real risk that's out there.

00:08:05.880 This is a very different.

00:08:07.600 That's a danger.

00:08:08.600 That's a pedophile.

00:08:09.960 Well, they're number one and they're taking the heat.

00:08:12.820 But Minecraft, Fortnite, Discord, Twitch, all of them have had the same problems.

00:08:17.880 And the Roblox is taking the heat with the big headlines right now because they're number one and so popular.

00:08:21.880 I cannot recommend Anxious Generations to parents enough.

00:08:26.240 Parents, please.

00:08:27.540 I didn't write this book.

00:08:29.980 I've been saying this since when, Tom?

00:08:32.660 This summer, I would say.

00:08:34.080 I'll say it was two years since I...

00:08:35.840 Or was it last summer?

00:08:36.680 Last year.

00:08:37.260 Last summer.

00:08:37.640 Oh, my God.

00:08:38.200 It's last summer.

00:08:38.920 I thought it was last summer.

00:08:39.500 I've been saying it for a year and a half.

00:08:41.480 Go buy the book.

00:08:42.900 I had Jen read it.

00:08:44.520 Husbands and wives go. 0.97

00:08:45.760 There's a reason why it's number nine in the charts.

00:08:48.120 This week, and a book came out a year and a half ago.

00:08:51.580 It's got 10,500 reviews.

00:08:53.760 Go do yourself a favor and buy this book immediately.

00:08:57.680 Read it.

00:08:58.620 Especially if you have a young daughter.

00:09:00.700 Teenage daughter.

00:09:01.700 Read this.

00:09:02.960 Talk to your kids about it.

00:09:04.320 There's a lot of this that's happening right now that we need to be having conversations with our kids.

00:09:09.660 It is such a multifaceted...

00:09:11.520 We're having a conversation with so many people around us right now who are all into the homeschooling part.

00:09:16.160 And more and more and more parents are bringing up why they're homeschooling.

00:09:21.440 Why they're considering homeschooling instead of putting the kids in school.

00:09:24.620 Adam, I think you wanted to say something.

00:09:25.840 No, it's reminiscent of what we were discussing, I believe, on Monday when we did the poll of at what age would you allow your kids to use social media?

00:09:34.260 And it was like, I think 3% were like, any age doesn't matter.

00:09:37.060 And then the vast majority were like 15 or 18 plus.

00:09:41.520 But I don't know anything about Roblox, but this is what?

00:09:44.220 Where social media meets gaming in a virtual world?

00:09:47.780 You could also interact with people online?

00:09:49.580 It just seems very, very dangerous.

00:09:51.820 By the way, within the confines of these numbers, does it say what percentage of players or users are boys versus girls?

00:09:59.920 I would assume it's mostly young boys, right?

00:10:03.140 I would assume.

00:10:03.540 What percentage of users on Roblox are boys versus girls?

00:10:09.940 That's a good question.

00:10:11.520 Because I know you're going down the ages, but I'm assuming it's mostly young boys.

00:10:14.860 60-40?

00:10:16.020 I would assume it's like 90-10.

00:10:17.960 I could be dead wrong.

00:10:19.040 I don't know.

00:10:20.140 Wow.

00:10:20.700 Oh, really?

00:10:21.200 It's 50-50 almost?

00:10:22.540 Look at that.

00:10:24.180 Wow.

00:10:24.660 So young girls play this game too? 0.98

00:10:26.880 This is dangerous as hell, man.

00:10:28.420 Yeah.

00:10:28.760 Anyways, keep your eyes out there, folks.

00:10:30.300 Keep your eyes on your kids.

00:10:32.560 Well, it's tough because of all the two-parent households that have to work.

00:10:35.780 You know, that's a weird thing too is that you can't have just one parent working and one parent constantly watching.

00:10:40.180 So I think that's a little bit easier said than done, unfortunately.

00:10:42.680 That's a good point, Brandon.

00:10:43.520 Also, how about single-parent households?

00:10:45.240 This is why I believe 2028 election will be about affordability, a lot of it, and will be about can I buy a house?

00:10:55.300 Can we have one earner in the house and live off of that? 1.00

00:10:58.820 Can we go back to somebody staying home to raise the kids? 0.94

00:11:01.700 I think whoever is campaigning for 2028, they have to pay very close attention to being able to get that message tight.

00:11:08.520 Truly.

00:11:09.160 Yeah.

00:11:09.800 Parties.

00:11:10.920 One of the sides, we know how they're going to be doing it.

00:11:12.880 They're going to give away stuff for free.

00:11:14.180 Right.

00:11:14.620 Okay?

00:11:15.300 But I think there needs to be a real intentional plan behind this.

00:11:18.720 Let me tell you what's going on today.

00:11:19.760 We haven't done this in a while.

00:11:20.880 So this is probably going to go in 30 minutes.

00:11:23.400 We have a new hat that we've been working on for months, and it's officially here in two colors.

00:11:29.500 Each are limited, numbered.

00:11:31.600 Out of 150, they will go like this.

00:11:34.680 Having said that, here's our latest Future Looks Bright hat.

00:11:37.460 Go ahead, Rob.

00:11:40.440 Vinny, look at that.

00:11:43.180 It's sick black and white.

00:11:50.320 Ziluch. 0.93

00:11:50.960 That's cash.

00:11:53.400 Damn.

00:12:00.080 Who's that guy?

00:12:01.420 Who was that male model?

00:12:02.420 Who was it, actually?

00:12:03.180 Justin.

00:12:04.360 Is it?

00:12:05.140 Yeah.

00:12:05.420 No, it's not.

00:12:05.960 Is that really Justin?

00:12:08.900 Well, Justin kind of is a male model.

00:12:11.440 Let's give him a little credit.

00:12:13.200 Come on.

00:12:15.800 Sick.

00:12:16.280 They were going to go with Rob first.

00:12:18.120 I love it.

00:12:19.040 I love it.

00:12:19.780 So here's what we're doing.

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00:12:23.520 If you order both, we're going to send you one of the shirts.

00:12:26.320 The Future Looks Bright.

00:12:27.700 Rob, if you can click on the link, go to it.

00:12:29.780 Click on the hat.

00:12:30.500 I think they're numbered.

00:12:31.360 It says 150.

00:12:33.740 Zoom in on the hat on the side.

00:12:35.160 Keep going.

00:12:35.780 Keep going.

00:12:36.280 Keep going.

00:12:36.780 150.

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00:12:39.840 So black and white.

00:12:41.220 If you order both, you can pick a shirt.

00:12:43.520 White or black. 0.62

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00:12:47.260 Always remember what happens with these limited edition stuff.

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00:12:57.480 In no time.

00:12:58.320 Go to Future Looks Bright.

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Valuetainment - November 14, 2025

＂THOUSANDS Of Sexual Assault＂ - Roblox Grooming Allegations Spark DARK Investigation

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