

The policy change had an immediate effect on the community across social media, with thousands of replies and QRT commenting on the development. On June 20th, 2023, the official Roblox Twitter account announced that because Roblox is a platform for friends to connect and enjoy different kinds of content, the game will start to allow creators who are age verified to be over the age of 17 to create content for other players who are age verified to be over 17 years old, earning over 2.3 million views in two days for the drastic policy shift (shown below).Īccording to the information provided by Roblox, the updated 17+ category allows for "intense violence, heavy realistic blood, moderate crude humor, romantic themes, unplayable gambling content and/or the presence of alcohol," which is a noticeable step up from the 13+ category (shown below). This led to the memes about "adding sex" to Roblox being a prominent topic in 2020, as shown in a now-deleted meme by Twitter parody account on November 26th, 2020 (shown below).

Roblox, like all other MMOs, has had a lot of adult content sneak its way onto the game in previous years, with various controversies coming from it and even the threat of a lawsuit by Kim Kardashian in April 2022.
