"putting profit over the safety of their child playerbase" sounds eerily similar to ROBLOX itself, doesn't it?

Robloxian High School used to be a good and extremely popular game. It's a huge shame to see how far it has fallen from grace.

Funny thing; 95% of RHS players aren't even in high school

Robloxian High School used to be a lighthearted, fun game. It's sad to see it fall off due to the creator's negligence not gonna lie.

I used to play Robloxian High School a lot back when i was a kid. Shame to see the developers going down this path.

Hi, I'm kyirid (formerly known as Alikire/xeroexo) and I was the 2020-2021 community manager for RHS. This video hit every mark and you did a great job covering this story! Much approve 👍 Further reading for more context, if anyone's interested: - I started fighting this battle ever since 2020 and was told to back off from banning people. It was initially because of ear exploder audio being played on boomboxes, but Usering messaged me not to deal with that because he doesn't want players getting banned. This was added to the document a bit after this video was published. Later in 2021, I proposed in-game moderation again and it was shot down by the *entire development team* because they said it wouldn't be worth the effort. A few months after I left, they gave kick and avatar removal powers to some of the Discord server's moderators, so it clearly was worth the effort to them at some point. - RHS has been falling off a high cliff over the past 2 years. Updates have really only consisted of filler content (more furniture, cars, houses) because everyone on the development team except for Hansi was laid off, but this is beside the point; this whole moderation debacle started when people began uploading nsfw outfits to the new outfit contest feature, which displayed avatars for *everyone* at spawn to see. Outfit contests were replaced by outfit selling, which had the same issues and was eventually moved to only within the avatar editor, but I don't know if this is still a problem today. - RedManta Games, the studio behind RHS that merged with Sonar Studios to form Twin Atlas, has a history of specifically avoiding banning people for the sake of keeping players and profit up. While this point is stated in the video, it's also true in one of their other games, World//Zero, where no one ever gets banned unless they're caught by one specific developer while they're playing the game. They know that the people that maliciously use game features or abuse exploits rake in the good analytics and bring in profit, so they're allowed to run rampant without any consequences. - Anyone who spoke out in the Discord server about the removal of in-game moderation was not just warned, not just muted, but instantly *banned* by Usering for criticism. A few existing server moderators were also demoted or banned for "leaking moderation". While this was still a hot topic in the server, he would swoop in while people were talking about it and quickly try to calm people down without actually solving anything. It's safe to say that the community doesn't exactly like him that much. - In 2021, Usering unbanned a *known* [MrObvious lookalike] from the Discord server because they're friends (or were). I told him about it and he said that he should only be banned if he knowingly breaks rules again, so he was banned in the same week for discussing adult fantasies in a server full of minors. While this isn't entirely relevant to the video, it shows what kind of respect he has for the playerbase. None. Once again, I'd like to thank you for making this video and the creator of the document, along with any and all contributors, for making this video possible. I'm glad that people outside of the RHS community are finally aware of the true dangers this game imposes upon its young audience.

Not only this may be the next meepcity, this has the potential to be even worse than it. The stuff that is already happening with the avatar editing is already absolutely disgusting, and the moderation has heavily deteriorated at an unfortunate expense. Honestly, the game’s PLAYER BASE may just get worse as time goes on, maybe causing Robloxian HS to resemble the meepcity situation 2 years later…

Robloxian highschool used to be such a fun game and creating avatars with the avatar creator was so good. So sad it was infected and neglected by its team 😭

I've been waiting for someone to cover this forever. I once talked to a moderator in DMs once and they straight up admitted that Usering and others didn't care about the naughty stuff going on in the game, and wouldn't take action unless they literally had to. Ever since that conversation I haven't played or supported RHS in any way at all. Absolutely disgusting.

Ive worked with usering for the past 3 years in robloxian highschool, I can tell you all that he never intended robloxian highschool to have moderation of any kind until reports of inappropriate avatars spread like wildfire. Me and Hansi were the only admins of the game for a brief 2-ish years. Hansi was a part of the Development team as the game's 3D modeler, and focused his time mostly on developing updates for RHS. I was the game's only active admin for a year and a half. When i left moderating RHS during late 2022, hansi added 8 new mods to take over my place. Note that Me and Hansi were chosen to recieve mod powers because we were the only people who Usering trusted with maintaining the game and its avatars. I really wasnt suprised by the fact that the power got abused and that moderation got removed entirely. It wouldve been much smarter to incorporate admins from across twin atlas games to come moderate robloxian highschool who are tusted enough to at least keep the game more safer along with future moderarion tools, ive always cared about the safety of people in that game during my time as the game's prime admin. Ive caught multiple alleged groomers and actual pedophiles and it pains me that those very same people that ive tracked down are left to roam

Funnily enough, had a friend who tried to report someone making a suggestive avatar They got told it was perfectly fine. Not sure what’s PG about a girl in her underwear

Removing _all_ moderation because of one or two bad faith actors is a blatant overreaction.

As someone who used to play Robloxian Highschool all the time, I can assure you this can easily be the next meepcity. The only times I ever play it now is with friends on a private server, but even then that's rare. At this point, it's kind of just the Roblox version of VRChat, not even a "school game" anymore. Yeah sure, it's a little better now, but maybe like, a few months earlier? A bit longer? Almost every server I went to had at least one inappropriate avatar.

I used to play RHS a lot back then. Its a shame it took this route.

Once I saw the document in full I was absolutely appalled. This is the first time in over my six years on Roblox where I've seen this sort of controversy in a game I once loved. Even if the moderation is steadily getting better, or to the same level it was at previously, that DOES NOT excuse the stance some developers had at ANY point in time. Trying to get horrible players back into your game is NOT the route to go if your game is seeing a decline, it never has been and never will be. I do know I won't be supporting this game anymore, it's sad to see multiple roleplay games have the same core issue. I hope the devs responsible for this mess can steer everything back in a more appropriate direction, though I wouldn't be surprised if the game gets deleted or at least reviewed in the future

I am so happy to see somebody actually notice the horrid things that happen in this game.

robloxian high school was one of those games i used to play alot back then (i mostly trolled there as a spider lol) but i still enjoyed it, seeing this makes me sad ngl

You really gotta plan things out before you decide to give people access to an extremely customizable avatar editor with accessory manipulation. Giving more freedom is always going to result in a demand for moderation as some players will attempt to make inappropriate content.

as an OG RHS player, this has always been like this, every time i entered this game i saw NSFW avatars, there's no shock for me seeing this information, glad this has finally been put to light.

This isnt the next meepcity This is a whole ass condo game

I've been playing RHS since its release. It's insane how many changes it has received throughout these years. I loved this game so much, that I was even an avid avatar creator, as I would invest days in dissecting the UVW maps of each object to upload new textures that worked together. I personally think this game accelerated to its death with the introduction of UGC. For one thing, the only reason I played the game (and presumably many others) was because the game limited you down to using Roblox items. This was before UGC was a thing. It forced me to be creative with whatever Roblox item was on the catalog. I would invest hours in the game just searching for items that worked together. These hours paid off when I made Freddy Fazbear, Kirby, Isabelle, Jojo characters, and other characters as accurate and fully textured as possible. I still saw creativity being used inappropriately during this time. However, UGC enhanced this issue. Not only did UGC content contain specific, questionable things, it also caused the "creative industry" of RHS players to die. There's no fun creating a character with someone making the same character in 1 minute using UGC items specifically made for that character. After 6 years of playing the game straight, I finally stopped playing. At this point, I'm just going to watch its demise. It's insanely depressing.

i hate when devs say its roblox’s responsibility to moderate their games, the reason reporting inappropriate outfit players wont work is because roblox cant see the avatars because they cant see the outfit unless the person wearing it is in the game and even then how do they find the server theyre in

I played Robloxian High School ever since the avatar editor items were bought with red Tix. I used to use it for that exact thing, making better avatars but seeing the playerbase constantly make weirder and weirder avatars and more and more things being either paywalled or under premium currency I stopped entirely. I used to hop on every once in a while to see if anything changed but I've completely changed to different game

i swear, this game that i played as a kid literally turned into VRchat 2.0

It's so good to see someone talking about this game... Even if there are extremely skilled people doing creative avatars, those people still do exist and that sucks a lot That feature is just shit becuase it's used to raid normal people, and those avatars used to get reported on the server and the users happen to be terminated by in-game mods, which is, in my opinion, the most optimal way to solve things. I quit that game because it was boring, and not the same anymore than what i can even remember from my childhooh, while the bad part of the community just made things worse. They added outfit voting and a stupid roulette, on a "school roleplay game".. I heard the devs took those off already and brought old maps. Seriously, the game lost itself stupidly when it had everything to become better. Thank you for making a video covering it, i've been waiting for ages

Game Theory: Usering is one of Alexnewtrons Alts.

The Robloxian downward spiral begins. This game is going to die if they don't fix this.

holy shit fr? im in the robloxian highschool dizzy sercer

in the video, a arrow is pointing at an icon that says "16" on it. thats not age; its a level gui. you can gain levels ingame by completing tasks and going to class.

greenlegocats has to go through this all over again💀

Eventually in the discord, there was so much inappropriate content being reported that they had to make it to where there was a system so that the moderators over 18 could deal with it, but the thing is, half the moderators are underage. So now not only is the moderation limited, but that means more people will start making bad things, and it wont be handled quickly due to how little the staff is that are over 18, and most of them being under 18.

the first iteration of robloxian high school was one of the very first games i ever played on roblox, sad to see its sequel/remake ruined by people like this. edit numero dos: i had this confused with another high-school related game, but i feel like my point still sorta stands edit: unbanning all previously banned players and removing all moderation is probably the stupidest thing I've ever heard a game studio do

Am I the only one who plays green's videos on a different tab and listen to it as if it was a podcast while I do something else?

Honestly, the game went on a downward spiral ever since they brought back the "old" map. The modern school was huge, expansive, and had tons of things to do. I often found the majority of players exploring the school and actually doing classes. And i'm not even mentioning everything else in that map. But ever since they threw all that away for a worse version of the old map, things just weren't the same.

Yo I was in a greenlegocats video W honestly

according to parlo's exposing of rhs, the owner does not care of the moderation and it let it slip, whoever who talked about it, it would be instantly banned or being silenced

6:40 based Chiang kai shek moment

Bigger they are, harder they fall...

I had recently quit roblox, but before that I had been playing RHS ALOT. I've been playing it for years, I still played even though I was getting bored of roleplaying. I started to instead make avatars when they had started an avatar making competition on halloween (I dont know the exact year) and since then I have been experiencing people breaking the TOS, I was honestly ashamed of the game and quit for one year before getting back into it. Custom avatar making was what grabbed my attention because it was something I could use my creativity for. But then I had started to experience disgusting people, I tried my best to report it to Roblox and RHS Mods but there was no effect, from what I could remember, there was a big argument in a server because someone got exposed for being an alleged (In my POV). I dont know how he got caught, even though I asked for screenshots and proof because im not gullible, I was not provided with any proof so I have no idea if the allegations against him were true or not. There was alot of good people I had befriended, I was even kind of popular since the playerbase was slowly decreasing but there was still alot of horrible and disgusting people in there and honestly I think I made the right choice and quit both RHS and Roblox to focus on the actual important stuff I had in life and to fix my grades, today im doing well and I have above 3.0 GPA and now im starting to learn my third instrument (Guitar) and I have become less tired and more disciplined taking BJJ.

Ive seen the doc ruben put out on twitter and the situation is out of control, its basically 2020 meep city but worse. People are bypassing images of children being hung, mass nsfw avatars, mass gore etc. Really bad stuff, hope RHS gets better because its out of hand.

At around the age of 13, i was too, exposed to sexual content on rhs, which also led me down the same destructive path until my ban... but most importantly they were friends who led me down that way. At least the ban was likely for the better.

I was a modeler when I worked for the game, so I only managed the current game mods at the time and testers, I could not make new features, nor knew how to fix big things, just add new content like cars, houses, furniture and whatnot. My post was not any official reasoning. Just stating facts of the growth of the game after the removal. I was also let go before this change/removal and did not make the decision.

As a Drive World enjoyer, this is depressing. I need to let my siblings know about the RHS incidents.

there’s been so many problems that happened this year that I’m not even phased

after this video they literally put in an ingame report button for inappropriate avatars LOL

This thing was happening over a year at this point, im glad someone finally decided to talk about it

i feel bad for robloxian high school

Wow I can't believe how unbelievably disgusting these devs are, putting profits over the safety of children is downright terrible.

another theory of mine is that the owner itself is a predator in his game and it just doesnt put moderation in game so it can get on contact with the childrens and groom them, wich is very accuarate in my opinion

this is just terrible, robloxian highschool was once a god tier game. now look how far its fallen from grace.

Roblox: What, inappropriate content? i didn't see anything wrong here, make sure your eyes are cleaned up...

When looking at it, alexnewtron Twitter pfp and usering's discord pfp kinda look the same. Coincidence? *I think not*

dammn, RHS and now Drive World are going to shit...

“And no we don’t need moderation it’s too much effort involved.“ - Average Game Developer 💀

With the new ToS in place, I can expect the devs are finally actually quaking in their boots

I was actually thinking this is the new meepcity, but I thought people wouldn’t believe me 💀

seeing all the avatars in RHS with big chests or what not really saddens me as I also play the game from time to time, I only do it so I can make good Roblox versions of my favorite fandoms or characters with it's customization but Im really sad that people use it like this. Pornography is really a disease in roblox.

this lazyness of the devs is a very red flag for predators inside the devs team, as i mentioned, even the owner itself might be a predator in his own game due the obvious lack of care to the game

I much like the explodey item glitch where you wear some sort of bunny ears, and for the few seconds you have left you run to a group of people, or camp the spawn and endlessly explode, killing people. I love that.

RHS used to let you create anything (within reason) with the avatar editor without having to buy gamepasses. Now you can barely use the editor (and there is a concerningly huge amount of 'interesting' avatars around).

dude i remember playing this game 24/7 in 2018 i was NOT expecting this to happen to this game man hits hard

I remember this game, as a kid I’d go there and mess around from time to time, But I stopped as I got older. It is very unfortunate that such a game has fallen from grace.

Welp there goes robloxian high school LMAO

I used to make a LOT of JoJo characters in that game... some of them were accurate af.

So... they unbanned everyone previously banned then removed moderation. Are they that insane for money? A shame roblox probably won't do anything about this, i'd love to eat my words, but yeah i feel like this is going to be pretty bad.

So glad this is getting attention for how bad it is. I used to play RHS constantly and quit due to the disgusting amount of p*rnographic, suggestive, or extremely out of proportion/sexualized girl avatars. I honestly hope either Usering gets banned or RHS gets taken down. I would love to talk about this subject to you directly since I have been documenting these type of avatars since 2021.

"Sometime even of animal" *Show image of a buff house with a giant c*

Robloxian Highschool are Like roleplay game back then but now it's all Just Avatar

Greed is such a powerful force that people will willingly put others- CHILDREN, no less- in genuine danger so that they can make more money.

God damn, of course every old roblox game has weirdos, my sister used to play this when she was younger.

I remember playing RHS alone back in 2017 and sitting in class with random foes as well as spending the night doing after school activities like going to the swimming pool, skatepark or beach. Shame that those days are now gone. 😞

Another detail, they ALLOW exploiters in the game as long as the exploiters don't disrupt players, I remember that very well.

its a shame to see one of my favorite games becoming another meepcity.

I am 9 years old and I am fucking mad that it’s happening to RHS now, it used to be my favorite game now it’s just becoming like the inappropriate Meepcity :(

During early 2020, when the game started to collapse I got sucked into RHS. I loved the game and thought it was super cool, but it was slowly changing and I didn't see it. I ended up seeing avatars with little to no clothing or showing things not aloud to be said here. There were also lots of loud / inappropriate audios that were consistently played. The worst part though, was the ODing, which I ended up getting sucked into since it was 'the norm' in the game. I ended up getting interested in certain things because I thought it was 'trendy'. Eventually I realized that this wasn't healthy at all, and I ended up leaving the game permanently a few months later. My experience wasn't extremely serious like this case and cases that occurred in many other types of games, but honestly some of the things that happened in RHS affected me mentally as a kid. That game is 95% profit based. Lots of games on Roblox get extremely popular, and then when they start to become disliked the creators turn to gaining profit using any means necessary, no matter what happens to the players. It's very sad. Thank you for making a video on this situation, your the only creator I've seen talk about it.

Boy do I hope this doesn't happen and get worse (cmon robloxian high school)

if this happens again in a few years, then roblox has probably been cursed to always have a "meepcity"...

i remember a couple of months ago in robloxian high school somebody made a... new york city 2001 simulator and got banned permanently literally just a couple of days earlier he was unbanned and is still playing the game absolutely great moderation, would recommend 👍👍👍👍

A good feature called a "Vote Kick" Would help a lot as seen in games such as Team Fortress 2 *How does it work?* A player opens a menu and select an issue *Ex: Scamming, Exploiting, Offensive Language* Choose a player and click "Call vote" Now all players but the player that you want to be remove will be asked to vote YES or NO If the majority vote YES then the player is removed or banned If NO The vote fails then the player in question doesn't get removed Can it be abused? Yes unfortunately but its better to have something than nothing

I love robloxian high school it lets me make characters, but some people take it far and exaggerate it. Now i dont play in public servers without someone saying "thats inappropriate im reporting you!" Like.. There's a difference between inappropriate and not inappropriate 😭 jesus!

i was banned from RHS ages ago id like to meet the devs in person to thank them

ACT NOW ROBLOX, before its to late

Im NGL, some of the non-weird avatars people make are really really good on that. Ive seen accurately modeled N64 marios, and accurately modeled sonics...

You either die a hero or live to become the villain. That quote is literally what happened.

It a shame how robloxian high school is right I used to play it a lot and had fun. It’s infuriating to see how the game is right now and the devs don’t care about it

Yo cowcow, im one of the long time players of that game, and im glad that rhs is getting in trouble for this, it was happening for years, hell, it was so bad that someone made a full avatar with gore textures. Alot of moderators from that game are literally porn addicts, even hansi who was caught playing a nsfw dating game (forgot the name), some high ranking members even got exposed for being pedophiles.

Ngl, it sounds like the Devs get off from that shit. Maybe that’s why they defend that shit

rhs had to be my favorite roblox game since 2018. it was so fun, but the last time i played it, i never saw it the same again.

"sometimes even of animals" What's wrong with people?

It's sad how a few bad actors ruin the fun for evyeryone else. Congrats to greenlegocats123 for actually making a disclaimer not to attack the people in the video cause. It's sad how people think they can harass people because they did "wrong". 2 wrongs don't make a right, but sadly thats how society works these days.

Finally, someone talks about this. I dont know how they haven't thought of making literal anatomy in this game in the 1st place when there was the avatar editor

damn, i remember playing this back in the day with my rp bio full of personality traits divided by slashes 😂

surprisingly i explored tons of servers in that game (for... totally reasonable reasons...) and i didnt find a single sus avatar.

Honestly I played the game a lot only in 2019 and didn't care about it later on but seeing one of my old favorite games' downfalls just suck even when I don't play it anymore

one part you weren't there to see is that the document had jack shit to do with why Usering added moderation, it's cause RUBEN SIM JOINED THE SERVER. crazy.

right now im 16, almost 17, but when i was quite young, the early stages of meepcity and rhs, i was exposed to such sexual content that i now have a porngraphy addiction. i was 11-12 and people were trying to do s*x roleplays with me, had these nude avatars and now i have an addiction that wont go away. any parents or older siblings seeing this, these lazy people will NOT value your childrens/siblings safety and its best to moderate your child/sibling no matter how much they hate it. dont let what happened to me happen to other kids. roblox needs to change. be safe out there

the problem is that, Usering/admins don’t delete banned clothing, and the banned clothing allows people to be naked..

why are we shocked? we should've seen this coming, im surprised it didnt happen sooner

I hope they get sued...or at least have some action taken against them...

bro i played this game for years, I had all the passess to it- and the most recent update that it had where itmade the whole map blank, took away house votes, and being able to buy outfits, and the whole ui change I was just like almost done with the game. I had poured HOURS into this game. I loved it so much, its a damn childhood classic for me. but to see it like this just breaks my heart, just why did they have to end up like this?