For many years now, a large platform for games has failed to ensure a sufficiently good child protection. This is fatal, as young players represent the most important target group of the offering. Now a big YouTuber has stated that the responsible parties have been sued.
Which YouTuber is it about? It’s about Mike Mandell, who, as a long-time lawyer, uses various social media platforms to explain difficult legal issues in an easily understandable manner and to classify current rulings.
Thus, Mandell is somewhat like the American version of Christian Solmecke, who does similar things in this country on his YouTube channel WBS LEGAL.
However, Mandell has a much larger reach. His YouTube channel Law By Mike has over 14.8 million subscribers. On TikTok, there are 11.1 million followers.
Which platform is it about? It’s about Roblox, which recently achieved a historic milestone: At times, 47.3 million players were active on the platform simultaneously. 78 million users log in daily. This even outshines other digital magnets like Steam or Fortnite.
Roblox is a kind of free-to-play game building block that is often created and published by the users themselves. It’s not just about being creative and experiencing the self-created gaming experiences with others, but also about a financial share in the microtransactions that are made within the respective game with the real currency Robux.
This incentive, along with the resulting offering of games, has allowed the platform to develop into one of the most popular destinations for primarily young players over the past 20 years.
