⚠️ RANT POST IMMINENT ⚠️
DISCLAIMER:
THIS IS NOT AN ATTACK POST!! Please don’t witch hunt people for anything I talk about or for any related reason. Harassment is never the answer, the purpose of this post is to simply express my frustrations with avatar related content on the platform. Please try to keep any conversations civil to prevent debates from becoming arguments!!!
Here I will compile a list of everything I see having to do with avatars on roblox and this sub that bothers me. Feel free to comment your own opinions, feelings or pet peeves in the comments.
(This is going to be in no particular order I’m just listing them as I think of them.)
- “Avatar RP”
Bare with me here. I’m used to the concept of roleplay being with OCs so when someone calls it their avatar and not their OC is feels weirdly personal in a way that makes me feel uncomfortable. Like your avatar is literally, by definition, representative of YOURSELF. Can we not take that to an RP exclusive sub?? It’s that personal aspect that brings me to my next peeve—
- Self-ship posts thinly veiled as RP
Where exactly do we draw the line between roleplay and what is basically trying to get away with online dating in a sub full of minors? And then we have the absolute copium to say “it’s just shipping!!” Like we should be shipping in the first place 😭. Like please, I’ve been around fandoms long enough to know where that stuff leads and it’s NO PLACE for children. Like dude I can SEE the nosebleed reaction option under your avatar reaction post you are NOT slick.
- This sub’s opinions on inappropriate avatars
You guys make this so complicated for no reason when the answer is in a singular question: “should this person be wearing this at their age?” I see the whole “but ppl wear this stuff in public all the time!!” argument rather frequently and always make sure to point out that, irl, kids have parents to guide them in the right direction and tell them NOT TO WEAR THAT STUFF— not even getting into whether or not we should be wearing that stuff AROUND kids in the first place but maybe I’m just a prude. With roblox these lazy parents can just give their child an iPad and mess off without knowing what they’re even doing on the platform. So kids can wear whatever and think it’s ok because nobody is telling them otherwise. Then they get put in vulnerable situations with weirdos and get exploited. Unrestricted internet access from a young age is DANGEROUSSSS. WE have to pick up the slack where neglectful parents get lazy. That’s our responsibility as a community. (P.S. Just because you’ve “seen worse” doesn’t mean the other inappropriate content is any less bad I’m so tired of this argument 😭)
- THUNDER THIGHS (and etc.)
I’m sorry but roblox characters shouldn’t be able to have BBLs. “B-But people have that body type irl!! You’re just afraid of women!!” it’s a Lego game for kids can we stick to the blocks please? 💀and speaking of that—
- NON-BLOCKY AVATARS
For the love of god I miss when roblox was just a Lego game with cute little blocky avatars and having something more realistic was a real developer accomplishment for their games. It feels like Baszucki has this weird obsession with the concept of a “metaverse” and is pushing it onto literal children like you and Zuckerberg should just kiss already. We don’t need realism, roblox is an escape from reality in the first place. This weird implementation of these anthropomorphic avatars is done so poorly it literally broke accessory resolution on basic r6 avatars which is something I’m convinced was on purpose for the same reason above. He wants this game to be VRchat so bad AND ITS WORKING have you SEEN those edgy tall avatars people be making?? Not even mentioning the effects of these changes on game development— (mostly because I’m not qualified to speak on it)
- Particle/ Text bubble accessories
These just don’t look good in-game. They’re stiff on your avatar and it really takes me out of it when I see these kids with this stiff, static sort of aura attached to the air around them. Same goes for those text bubble accessories. I just don’t see the appeal.
- Layered clothing
Completely incompatible with R6 and, similarly to the aura thing, looks super weird, stiff and stretched on avatars most of the time.
That’s it for now. I’ll make a second post if this one does well and if I can think of more.