Who Makes These Creepy ROBLOX Avatars?

Ruben Sim explores the potential origins of ROBLOX's uncanny valley, revealing more about them than ROBLOX staff would like you to know.

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Imagine being the moderator that accidentally
approved the decal used to make this face.

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Imagine being the mistake of god that decided
it was a good idea to combine this with this.

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Imagine being the parents of a healthy young
builders club member, only to discover that

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your money is going to the company hosting
this spawn from the 9th circle of hell.

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In Dante's inferno, the second most retched
and sinful souls to ever have existed are

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tortured by Lucifer himself, their infinitely
regenerating skin being torn off by his jagged

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claws.

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The first most sinful souls have to look at
these things all day.

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I'm Ruben Sim and we have to talk about the
uncanny valley of ROBLOX avatars.

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If you don't know what the uncanny valley
is, essentially it's a range of creepiness

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a lot of illustrations find themselves in
when trying to replicate a human like appearance.

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Take a look at this wikihow drawing.

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Not creepy at all.

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Take a look at this photo realistic painting.

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Also not creepy.

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Now take a look at the character models from
the latest Mass Effect game.

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What the fuck is that?

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Roblox avatars very easily avoid the uncanny
valley due to their simple and cartoonish

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appearance, yet somehow a collective of Twitter
users have mathematically calculated the most

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disturbing and grotesque bastardization of
this form and created what I can only describe

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as the ROBLOXian Thot.0 avatar, or the RThot
avatar.

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RThot avatars seem to be a replica of the
self proclaimed Instagram model demographic,

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frequently being seen in similar selfie themed
photos...

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That's not how a camera works.

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Oftentimes these photos will include several
layers of artistic depth and lore.

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In this photo we can see an RThot about to
have sex with another RThot.

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Here we can see an RThot in the late stages
of pregnancy...

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A roblox avatar is pregnant... by someone
with an ear.

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Many people have their own theories about
where the people who create these come from,

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but I personally believe that it's a direct
consequence of roblox disregarding all forms

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of online dating.

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Despite having an incredibly diverse range
of ages, roblox seems to have lost all interest

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in preventing strangers from engaging in romantic
or even sexual discussions in game.

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Roblox relies heavily on investors giving
them funding, and investors rely heavily on

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company growth.

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If roblox is deemed to be unsafe for children,
they lose their COPPA certification, and several

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of their advertisers, and millions of dollars
in potential funding.

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This seems to have no impact on roblox's board
of directors, however, who can't allocate

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enough of their 92 million dollars towards
a working moderation department.

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As sexual activity increases among roblox's
more privileged users, they begin to employ

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real world sexual tactics onto the platform,
especially when they begin losing the ability

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to discern romance between two roblox avatars
from romance between two real people.

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Thus, as Instagram models accumulate sexual
attention through suggestive mirror selfies,

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RThots follow the same path... with significantly
more horrifying results.

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To test the effectiveness of this look, I've
asked my girlfriend replicate it.

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Sweetheart?

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I need you to make me look like this.

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"Um, I need to put your hair back. Do you have a headband?"

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Uhh, I have hats.

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Clearly I've been having laundry detergent for breakfast

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By the uh, box of Tide on my table.

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"Do you want your ears poking out?"

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This makes my forehead look so fucking big.

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ow *gunshots* do you need to look at the reference photo?

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Is this how you do it? "Go wet it then, I didn't wanna wet it"

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What the fuck? This is dry?

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"I didn't wanna get up"

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oh wah wah wah

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"Stop acting like it's painful"

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*pain noises*

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*sexual pain noises*

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"Alright we're done"

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ok

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this is not like the reference photo

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i need to look good

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"Can you tilt your head back a little?"

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*explosion noises*

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I feel like you don't do it this way when you do it to yourself.

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"I don't do it as much but you want some intense makeup"

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I don't think you hit yourself this hard.

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"Want me to make your beard look really-"

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No.

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Don't touch the beard.

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Don't touch it.

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Keep your filthy-

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Keep your whore hands off my beard.

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"Is that sharp enough for you?"

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"Does it look even?"

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Not at all.

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My contour has scoliosis.

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Are you almost finished?

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ok

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"I like this angle"

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I agree, it's a very nice angle.

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This is an exercise on my eyelid muscles.

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I don't wanna do this for too long or I'll get really buff eyelids.

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It'll just look like I got stung by a bunch of bees.

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I just realized you could've just made me look like one of the male ones.

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It's too late now

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*girly anger noise*

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You're making me laugh

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*additional angry girl noise*

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Did you fuck up?

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"Don't open your eyes!"

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Aww I'm sorry. I think it needs to be like, bigger.

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Like, cover a large portion of my eyelid.

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"please stay still"

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You don't control me.

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"That doesn't count as staying still."

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"No, no, where you were is good."

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This is gonna be such a huge fucking meme. People are gonna be screenshotting this

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and sending it to me for years.

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Make them big.

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Yeah.

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No

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Hey yall, I'm Melanie Martinez. Buy my merchandise.

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"Now you're Melanie Martinez" I'm Melanie Martinez, but my merchandise.

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"Umm I think you're done." I look good.

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"Do you feel done?" I feel good.

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Apparently this person posted their number which we're gonna have to censor.

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but um, it says "If anybody wants to text" then they put a little heart there.

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So I actually texted this number and I confirmed who it is.

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So I'm gonna send her a very heartfelt message.

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Hey man, I'm a really big fan of your work, no, artwork.

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and you've inspired me to create my own work.

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And now we're gonna take a beautiful selfie.

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Do you like that? I think we should go with something a little more flattering.

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How's that?

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Excellent, I sure do feel sexy.

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It sure does feel like guys wanna fuck me right now.

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*sad music*

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