My Roblox account's 13th birthday was on July 10th, meaning it is now old enough to legally use platforms like Discord. Horrifying to think about. I think Roblox is a site that everyone grows out of one day, and whether that age is 16 or 36 entirely depends on the financial incentives in mind. If you are a game developer making *stacks* off of Steal A Huss Brainrot Girlfriend, hey, that's cool. Fund your retirement with that and then get into woodworking and FGC major trips for the latter half of your life. But, this platform is inherently for a very specific demographic of kids-to-teens. The moment you have money and the ability to buy games from Steam, the inherent appeal of Roblox kind of starts to wane away; a nearly endless stream of games that you can hop into at any point is less exciting when you can buy like, Dustforce DX or Marvel vs. Capcom 3 instead. The changes Roblox has made in the past couple of years have made the exit sign blink ever so brighter for the older folks that still choose to hang around. I refuse to give Roblox any semblance of an ID or selfie so I can read chat; go kick rocks and die. And without chat, it becomes a question of "why bother". Was it the communities I existed in when I was younger that have since disappeared into the aether? Was it the games that I loved which have now disappeared? Playing Roblox in modern day is more for revisiting the "feel" of it I once experienced when I was a kid, the happy memories that came from the hours lost on it before I had the awareness of how much damn money everything costs. Maybe every now and then I hop on to play a game that looks cool with a friend or three, to check out the new frontiers explored by those few with true, god-forsaken sparks of creativity who have chosen to stick around. For me personally, however, the luster has long since been lost.