{"id":1691696,"date":"2026-09-13T17:52:51","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T17:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/HW4bzEGS5tEmeggscNEsug"},"modified":"2026-09-13T17:52:51","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T17:52:51","slug":"youtuber-runs-onto-the-stage-at-roblox-developers-conference-shouting-we-deserve-better-gets-tackled-and-ejected-from-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/youtuber-runs-onto-the-stage-at-roblox-developers-conference-shouting-we-deserve-better-gets-tackled-and-ejected-from-show\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTuber runs onto the stage at Roblox Developers Conference shouting ‘We deserve better,’ gets tackled and ejected from show"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Over the last few days, Roblox’s 2026 Developers Conference was held in San Jose, California, and one of Roblox CEO David Baszucki’s on-stage introduction’s hit something of a hitch. Roblox YouTuber Mathieo took to the stage shouting, “We deserve better, don’t we deserve better,” while revealing a shirt that read “Kids deserve better,” until he was quickly tackled and escorted out.<\/p>\n

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Baszucki played the incident off in the moment, saying “We all get a little excited when RDC comes along, as we just saw.” But it was shared online<\/a> by X user bearpuppyrbx, prompting a quote-repost from Mathieo himself\u2014”just got kicked out #rdc26 \ud83d\udc94,” he wrote<\/a>. He explained his stunt the same day in a short YouTube video<\/a> uploaded to his channel.<\/p>\n

“I know there’s a lot of people that really love RDC, and I’m glad people are enjoying themselves,” he said in the video. “My issue isn’t with the people. I just do believe that Roblox [Corporation] isn’t as dumb as they say they are \u2026 everybody’s saying they don’t want AI. Everybody’s saying they don’t want these faces messed up. Everybody wants better child safety.<\/p>\n

“Every single slow year of progress is just another year where children are actually affected.”<\/p>\n

Roblox’s dubious child safety measures have been criticized for a number of years. It has recently introduced child accounts<\/a> in an attempt to address the issue, the US Senate is actively investigating the platform<\/a>, and legislation like the EU’s Digital Services Act<\/a> aim to force Roblox Corporation’s hand in protecting minors. <\/p>\n

The game has been called a “pedophile hellscape<\/a>” by one investment firm, and Baszucki has put his foot in his mouth on this several times in the past\u2014take, for instance, that time he suggested Roblox become a dating hub<\/a>, or that disastrous interview he had with the New York Times<\/a> where he suggested “the problem of predators on Roblox” was “not necessarily just as a problem, but an opportunity as well.” <\/p>\n

“We’ve seen that telling them just doesn’t work,” Mathieo said in the video. “It’s been many years now where this has been a really prevalent issue. And while they’re ‘finding a fix,’ there’s probably a lot of kids that have been harmed on Roblox recently.”<\/p>\n

I have reached out to the Roblox Corporation for comment on the incident, and will update this story if I hear back.<\/p>\n

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