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The UK is banning all social media for kids under 16 years old. No more TikTok. No more Instagram. No more Snapchat. No more YouTube. Every platform will require age verification.

Man. We did it. ~200,000 players showed up, Jailbreak's longevity is nuts. Thank you to the streamers, the players of past and the players of present. The late nights are over. This one was a true passion project. My phone's wallpaper has been a photo of old Jailbreak for the past 6 months. Yes, we began 6 months ago on this update with initial sketches. I actually documented a decent amount of the build process in photos and will share them soon. Updates moving forward look at performance and gameplay fairness, if ya know what i mean. I'm off to enjoy my Saturday and I'll server hop later today to hang out in the new map with you guys! From the bottom of my heart, and I mean this to its fullest meaning: Thank you.

Let me explain to you why the Roblox update of the changes to gamepasses, and the destruction of donation games, is objectively GOOD. No developer will disagree with me on this. If they do, they are larping. The Roblox economy is composed of various different things. A typical pathway for robux is, robux is purchased from Roblox, spent on a gamepass, developer product, or UGC item, and the developer of the content cashes the robux out of the economy via devex. The path of robux can take also take a very different path. Remember, most robux transactions take at least 30% as tax for the whole transaction - a significant amount. Consider the following path: Robux is purchased from Roblox > robux spent on a gamepass > gamepass owner spends on a limited > ex-limited owner includes robux in a trade > receiver of trade spends robux on a UGC item > UGC creator pays another creator via t-shirt for a retexture commission > retexturer uses Devex and removes the robux from the economy. Every single one of these events includes a tax of at least 30%, with UGC sales taking 70% as tax. Let's say you spend 50 dollars on 5000 robux from Roblox. By the end of the above path, the 5000 robux is now only 360 robux, the equivalent of $1.37 USD via Devex. The original purchase of 50 dollars has lost 97.26% of its initially traded in value. Now, as for why no dev would disagree with this update. Donation games are a large enough part of the economy that Pls Donate made significant revenue, easily much more than 8 figures. Remember, ALL robux that passes through Pls Donate is taxed at a whopping 40% rate due to Pls Donate's 10% tax cut. A large portion of robux that could have eventually landed in the pockets of other developers was taxed at 10% extra, which landed in Hazem's pocket. This would mean you, as a developer, would be taking a significant percentage of your income and running it through an involuntary additional tax which is paid to another "developer" who really is just running a skimming machine. The amount of funds Hazem cashes out in a year would otherwise be dispersed among all developers, if people had a good way to donate robux and Hazem wasn't taking a skim. People are ultimately developers on Roblox because they want to get paid to develop their own content. That is the trade. Content for money. No developer would willingly give a percentage of their income to another "developer" who doesn't actually contribute to the Roblox ecosystem in terms of making real games or other UGC content, and you get absolutely nothing in return for the loss of income. The death of donation games simply equals additional income for literally ALL other developers making REAL CONTENT.

The guy who uploads Roblox limited knockoffs for a living and who used to strike people's items to later reupload them on his account calling someone a "leech"

"Despite everything, it's still you." #robloxart