An Intimate Minute With ROBLOX CEO David Baszucki (Parody)

David Baszucki opens up about various topics on his mind.

Original video: http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/10/20/kid-gaming-company-roblox-builds-a-following/
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[Office Ambience]

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So we see Ben Simon unnaturally fucking us over

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and we can't do anything to stop him.

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Sorry...

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I probably shouldn't have started off like that.

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One of the most important things to this company is our users.

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That's why we took cherished events like the Halloween event,

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and ruined it by plastering Nerf advertisements all over it two years in a row.

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Right now we're trying to expand the visual aspects of our games.

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We don't really care if our games are fun, or if our users like them.

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We've been promoting stuff lke Bird Simulator,

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ROBLOX High School,

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God knows how many tycoon games.

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Although these games aren't at all enjoyable or creative,

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Our advertisers only spend... maybe 120 seconds in each one before they make a marketing decision.

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This one ROBLOX user...

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Ben Simon, he um...

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Ben Simon isn't actually his ROBLOX username.

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We've just banned him so many times he goes by his actual name online.

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Ben Simon is this 19 year old who makes these videos

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that criticize us and make fun of us.

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He has this series called ROBLOX Watch.

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He actually puts more effort into it than we put into our website design,

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which isn't a lot but... still.

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I tried to shut him down a couple months ago by hiring a PMC

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to raid his apartment and keep him from uploading an episode.

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But by the time they breached his apartment he was long gone.

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And he set up a fake Ben Simon in front of his computer.

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The team ended up having a 6 hour standoff with a painting that looked like him.

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To me, ROBLOX is like my child.

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And I love my child.

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I also exploit and abuse my child,

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and take other people's money to exploit and abuse my child,

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and to me...

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It's all about having fun.