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Roblox has grown big on other peoples IP. My kids are only interested in it so they can play a Minions game or a Spiderman game. I guess that's how YouTube got

Roblox has grown big on other peoples IP. My kids are only interested in it so they can play a Minions game or a Spiderman game. I guess that's how YouTube got big too.

sjg007 7y ago
Its better than apps with in app purchases and ads.
- bitdestroyer 7y ago
  I had to remove Roblox from our devices because all of the levels my daughter would load were either not age appropriate or would put IAP purchase buttons under the controls so you couldn’t avoid hitting them accidentally. It was incredibly scummy. My kids are young so maybe they just don’t know how/where to find decent levels but it felt gross and wasn’t something we wanted to encourage. IAPs were absolutely everywhere in the levels I saw her playing before we made the call.
  - ryan-allen 7y ago
    I'm considering banning Roblox for similar reasons. I would let my kid use some pocket money to buy Robux, but then I found out his friends would log into his account and spend any spare Robux he had lying around. I've tried to get in to it myself to better understand it as a mechanism, and I'm at a loss as how it's so popular. My guess is that on the surface it looks innocent enough to naive parents but in reality it's quite a bit 'elsagate' in nature. I am happy that, right now, he prefers to spend time in Minecraft with his headset, it's a much more positive game (making houses and exploring without predatory in app purchases).
- PeterisP 7y ago
  Roblox (at least many of its games) is full of IAP, and quite scummy IAP at that.
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bredren 7y ago
Much of TikTok is content sucked in from other networks—-often without creator license. Then remixed to a meme or “trend” inside the app. It is actually amazing because it somehow has gotten around the walls of fb, ig, snap and YouTube.
- asdff 7y ago
  Fb et al. probably don't care because the memes circle the drain gaining compression until they inevitably end up on someones newsfeed.
minikomi 7y ago
Hiphop has only grown big on other peoples IP. My kids are only interested in it so they can dance to a loop of James Brown or Kool and the Gang.
- Intermernet 7y ago
  There are many hiphop artists who either don't sample, or sample very rarely. Sample clearance has been pretty expensive for a couple of decades now. It still happens a lot, as hiphop is one of the earliest proponents of modern "remix culture", but it's definitely rarer than the halcyon days of yore. Just letting you know.
  - minikomi 7y ago
    Absolutely.. was hoping the "age" of the sample sources would have been enough to get my point across -- a lot of art forms steal at first but evolve once tropes & styles get a foothold.
jdnenej 7y ago
Tabletop simulator is great for this. One time purchase and you can run pretty much any board game for free.
andybak 7y ago
Which is how culture is supposed to work and has done for most of it's history.

Roblox has grown big on other peoples IP. My kids are only interested in it so they can play a Minions game or a Spiderman game. I guess that's how YouTube got big too.

sjg007 7y ago

Its better than apps with in app purchases and ads.

bitdestroyer 7y ago
I had to remove Roblox from our devices because all of the levels my daughter would load were either not age appropriate or would put IAP purchase buttons under the controls so you couldn’t avoid hitting them accidentally. It was incredibly scummy. My kids are young so maybe they just don’t know how/where to find decent levels but it felt gross and wasn’t something we wanted to encourage. IAPs were absolutely everywhere in the levels I saw her playing before we made the call.
- ryan-allen 7y ago
  I'm considering banning Roblox for similar reasons. I would let my kid use some pocket money to buy Robux, but then I found out his friends would log into his account and spend any spare Robux he had lying around. I've tried to get in to it myself to better understand it as a mechanism, and I'm at a loss as how it's so popular. My guess is that on the surface it looks innocent enough to naive parents but in reality it's quite a bit 'elsagate' in nature. I am happy that, right now, he prefers to spend time in Minecraft with his headset, it's a much more positive game (making houses and exploring without predatory in app purchases).
PeterisP 7y ago
Roblox (at least many of its games) is full of IAP, and quite scummy IAP at that.

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bredren 7y ago

Much of TikTok is content sucked in from other networks—-often without creator license. Then remixed to a meme or “trend” inside the app. It is actually amazing because it somehow has gotten around the walls of fb, ig, snap and YouTube.

asdff 7y ago
Fb et al. probably don't care because the memes circle the drain gaining compression until they inevitably end up on someones newsfeed.

minikomi 7y ago

Hiphop has only grown big on other peoples IP. My kids are only interested in it so they can dance to a loop of James Brown or Kool and the Gang.

Intermernet 7y ago
There are many hiphop artists who either don't sample, or sample very rarely. Sample clearance has been pretty expensive for a couple of decades now. It still happens a lot, as hiphop is one of the earliest proponents of modern "remix culture", but it's definitely rarer than the halcyon days of yore. Just letting you know.
- minikomi 7y ago
  Absolutely.. was hoping the "age" of the sample sources would have been enough to get my point across -- a lot of art forms steal at first but evolve once tropes & styles get a foothold.

jdnenej 7y ago

Tabletop simulator is great for this. One time purchase and you can run pretty much any board game for free.

andybak 7y ago

Which is how culture is supposed to work and has done for most of it's history.