The child’s attorney, Stanley Gipe, said the boy was playing Roblox when he was contacted by someone posing as a young girl.

Roblox’s latest viral hit, Steal a Brainrot, turns meme chaos into gameplay—mixing tycoon grind, PvP raids, and Gen Alpha humor in peak 2025 fashion.

Editor's note: This article contains descriptions and an image of hate speech found on the Roblox servers and might be triggering to some readers. In Roblox, one of the world's largest online gaming platforms, users join to play, create, and be themselves ...

Roblox, a world-building video game, has about 40 million players under age 13 – or more than a third of its user base.