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- Jul 9, 2025
As someone completely outside the roblox "community" the very fact that they are making such a huge spectacle out of it is, filming the predator meeting up, "this guy has gotten preds arrested in 48 states!" and the youtuber(s) being the ones to greet them is what puts me off in the first place. The guy presumably also a comment section full of, ironically also young, fans going full on hero worship for him. (the "method" isn't even that originally either, this is just chris hansen) Basically the more it becomes about the youtuber(s) rather than the predators and the less you are allowed to question it the more bullshit it probably is. If roblox mods are truely so incompetent that a "pedo crusader" larp is their best hope then that is pretty tragic.I recommend watching videos from the Predator Poachers to get an idea of how different these pred-catchers are from the rest. Alex Rosen, Jidion, and Schlep are doing the good work. The method they use to catch preds is quite fascinating, Alex himself has gotten preds sentenced in 48 states.
Here is how it works: Schlep would talk with them on discord/roblox, convince them to meet up, and then Jidion or Alex would be there waiting. The pred is then tricked by them into confessing their every crime, believing Jidion/Alex to be their friend, then they call the cops and the pred is arrested.
Here is one of my favorite catches of all time, to give you an idea.
I also don't doubt there are pedos but I wonder how much of what is caught up in this is kids bypassing chat filters to talk to other kids the same age, because like it or not 8-12 year olds laughing at being able to say "pen is" in a game and older teenagers sexting each other is a pretty universal thing that most people in this thread probably participated in themselves when they were that age, but those kids are vulnerable to adults joining their ranks. I wonder if there's any groups of adult rpers only interacting with other adults. (and I don't mean someone 3 days after their 18th birthday sexting a 43 year old, I mean people the same age) that kick out kids and don't wear those avatars in publicly viewable places (not sure how that works) as you see adults ERPing with each other in other games.
That screenshot of someone saying they were 13 and someone saying they didn't care? THAT is what this should be focused on, not the youtubers actions, not some 12 year old having potty humor, but adults knowingly, sexually, interacting with a child.