(Long post) I was a clothing designer first. To all clothing designers reading this: I'm sorry. You deserve so, so, so much better than this The amount of skill, patience, and dedication you have is insane. You are a pioneer of character customization and UGC on Roblox You weren't sent a special invite to a program with a limited number of people when you began your designing journey. Instead, you started in an extremely saturated and competitive market riddled with issues. It was already an unforgiving landscape from the start: botting, DMCA abuse, and so much more And yet, you still managed to make a name for yourself I was shocked by how many shortcuts and tools I had when I moved to 3D, and today I'm shocked by the amount of tools, analytics, and support I have as a game developer Personally, I've done all kinds of art for years now, and nothing comes close to sitting for 12–14 hours doing linework, coloring, shading, and everything else that goes into clothing design Yet instead of making changes that would give you better tools, more support, and stronger protections... ......they cut your income by more than half and significantly increase the fees, What? all while the market is still dealing with many of the same issues we've known about for more than a decade????????????????????????????? I genuinely cannot put into words how fucked this is And despite being a game developer now, I still cannot, for the life of me, ever comprehend why the FUCK Roblox gives games 40% and gives the artists 30% ON. THEIR. OWN. WORK. ❤️‍🩹

Me in rdc 2026 after roblox invites the guy who reuploaded 100 AI generated rips of my models to congratulate him for hitting 10 million sales (He is verified too now) #Roblox #RobloxDev #RobloxUGC

I am starting to see a lot of creators terminated over Roblox's recent sudden DMCA's (and those DMCA's make 0 sense) From the day that Roblox was made, the accessories referenced a lot of games from outside of Roblox. In some cases Roblox did go as far as to add their own touch to the item. Which is why I assume a lot are still up to this day (That or copyright hasn't caught up with them) Within the past few months many of us creators as catalog became more accessible were led to believe that if we were to take a concept/idea that we love. and reinnovate it into something new then that would be perfectly fine right? afterall that is what Roblox itself does (To a lesser degree somehow compared to a lot of creators who have been terminated / are currently facing termination) Roblox has never been fully transparent about what counts as "too similar." No consistent guidelines have been released, and UGC creators were encouraged (indirectly through examples and platform acceptance) to push the line creatively. Many creators followed Roblox's own approach: "inspired by" not "copying." many of us are genuinely confused at this point. there's love surrounding a lot of these accessories and communities built around them. one of these "Emperor" series items sold for over 250k and I mentioned that during an interview with Roblox and they found it super impressive, basically right after promoting me for an event too lol, one of these accessories was also taken down in the past by mistake and was fully restored. But now suddenly its not okay? and people are being terminated over it aswell? there's like 0 transparency man. I know we're not obligated to know shit and if they dont communicate anything then they can be flexible. Afterall they can take down whatever they want and lord forbid you do actually counter any of the strikes youd basically be fighting a multi billion dollar corporation in court over a UGC item its just fucked up man. I hate how they can just do this. what once felt okay for the longest time now suddenly isn't. and ok sure you can start taking down people's items and giving them warnings or even bans. but straight up terminations? thats just fucked. I had someone earlier who has had their account for practically 5 years and was getting into game development getting straight up terminated over an item that barely resembles a "dominus". taking down reuploads / stolen content is perfectly okay and if anything it is what creators like to see. But Roblox is giving the same punishments to legitimate creators as the one they give thieves.