American reality star Kim Kardashian threatened to sue the studio behind Roblox on her TV show after her son spotted an ad in the game referencing a new sex tape of hers. Roblox drew consequences from this and blocked the responsible developer.
The online gaming platform Roblox, where users can develop their own games, has made it to reality television. To be more precise, in the TV series “The Kardashians”, which accompanies the life of the well-known American blended family. In the episode titled “Burn Them All to the Fucking Ground,” which aired April 14, Kim Kardashian’s son, Saint West, alerted his mother to a troubling find. Inside Roblox, he came across Kim Kardashian’s crying face, which is said to have been part of an ad that referenced “Kim’s new sex tape.”
After Kim Kardashian’s son explained to her that this is the Roblox game, she replied: “Oh it’s a game? Then we’ll sue them if it’s a play on my name and picture.She then claimed that the ad in question implied that it contained unreleased footage of her 2007 sex tape. She also allegedly said it was clickbait, which was an allusion to clicking a new sex tape of her According to the episode name, she explained at the end (roughly): “I have enough time, enough money and all the resources to burn them all down.“
The makers of Roblox drew conclusions from this
Roblox itself also commented on the incident and explained that the text reference to the sextape had now been removed and that it was only visible to an extremely small number of people on the platform. The associated experience in Roblox is also said to have been removed quickly and the community developer involved in the incident blocked. The video in question was also never viewable on the Roblox platform, the developers reported, as it would also violate their strict community guidelines.
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As early as February of this year, Roblox attracted negative attention in this area, since a BBC report suggested that the platform had a problem with explicit sexual content. Because Roblox is said to have included games in which players could exchange information about this content and engage in virtual sex.
Source: via Eurogamer
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