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So, the situation going on with Roblox
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Forsaken is actually insane. It's so
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crazy that I have to make this video
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talking about it. And honestly, this
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might end up being one of the most
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important videos I ever make in the
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history of my channel. So, for the
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people that don't know what's going on,
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let's just hop right on into it. Right,
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this is Roblox Forsaken. Over the past
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few months, the game has absolutely
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blown up. In fact, it's one of the most
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popular games on Roblox right now. This
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is literally the front page. It is 1 2 3
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4 5 6. It is the sixth most popular game
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on Roblox right now. And for those of
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you that have never seen the game or
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played the game, it's kind of like Dead
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by Daylight. There is a killer and there
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are a bunch of survivors. The survivors
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have to turn on all the generators and
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survive the time limit before the
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killer, you know, like takes everyone
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out. Well, anyway, you see, the person
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who made the game is this person right
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here. Their name is Soul. They are the
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owner of the game along with somebody
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named Ava. Correct me if I'm wrong in
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the comments, but I think Ava is like
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this person's girlfriend. Anyway, they
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own the game or they did. So, it looks
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like Soul here actually deleted like
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pretty much all of their tweets, but um
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they're in a little bit of drama. I I
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don't even know if calling it drama is
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is the right word. If you just type in
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Soul Forsaken and search that on
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Twitter, you're going to get a wide
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range of different tweets here. Um I I
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don't really want to get too much into
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the weeds here. Basically, what you need
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to know is that allegedly Soul has done
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some pretty bad things. cuz I say
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allegedly
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because basically Soul isn't really
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quite the greatest person in the world.
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That's what you need to know. Also, I I
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should sidestep this and and just say
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this just real quick right off the bat.
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I made a video about this the other day
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on Twitter, but I think it really needs
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to be reiterated here and and that's the
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fact that if somebody is doing something
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illegal, all right, if you have evidence
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of crimes being committed, all right,
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you really need to send that stuff to
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the police, right? And there's a reason
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for that. Cuz tweeting it out and making
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video exposed videos and essays and, you
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know, giant Twitter threads and Google
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documents that are like 20 pages long,
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like that's great. Cool. That's
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fantastic. But it doesn't actually do
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much. It doesn't really do anything,
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right? And that's that's kind of what
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happened in this case here with with the
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soul person. Bunch of evidence came out.
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It was all over Roblox news. in in in
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fact I don't know how how I haven't
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heard of it up until this point but
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basically this person did some pretty
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crazy things allegedly and you see the
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problem is whenever you don't actually
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go to the proper authorities with things
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whenever you just tweet stuff out and
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say oh yeah job well done well it
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doesn't actually do anything right and
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you'll see why here in a second right
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let me keep going so basically it came
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out that Soul did allegedly some some
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bad stuff right and so Soul decided to
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give ownership of Forsaken over to two
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of the developers that that are working
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on the game. Right here's actually the
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announcement in the Discord. The
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announcement says, "Following recent
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events and agreements with the team, the
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ownership of Forsaken has been
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transferred to myself, Hitoko, and
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Basil. They they're basically the new
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owners of the game. We got Hitoko here
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and we have Basil right here. Hopefully,
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I'm pronouncing their names right. And
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you might think that's where the story
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ends, right? Soul got exposed. They
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deleted all their tweets, left the
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internet, and now we got Basil and High
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Toco. They're the new developers of the
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game. They own the game. Everything's
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great. Everything's sh sun sunshine and
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rainbows now, right? Well, no, actually,
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no it's not because you see late last
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night, um, Soul actually sold the game
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to someone completely different. Hi,
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Telco tweeted out and was like, "Soul
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sold the game instead of finishing
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things." And this is actually crazy. Let
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Let me try and break this down for you.
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Okay, so there's apparently a Discord
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server where a lot of people will go in
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there and sell their Roblox games and
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people will buy those games for large
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amounts of money. Right? We we've been
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over this. these giant companies, these
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giant corporations. They'll go in,
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they'll, you know, they'll buy these
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games for for cheap and then, you know,
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stick monetization in them or resell
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them for a higher price, etc., etc. You
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get the idea. Basically, Soul sold the
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game to somebody completely different,
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just unrelated to Forsaken. Soul's like,
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"Hey, I want my money. I'm selling the
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game. I'm out." They might be asking,
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"Well, how is that possible?" Right?
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Like this person here on Twitter said,
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"It's over. We won." They they soul left
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Twitter and and they they transferred
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ownership of the game to Hayoko and
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Basil. We're good. No, no, you're not
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good. And and this is not how this
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works, right? I don't I don't I I look,
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I'm I'm not yelling at like the
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developers or anything like that. This
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is just frustrating because this is a
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situation that happens all the time on
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Roblox, right? It's a situation that all
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these kids find themselves in because
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they think a few tweets and a few
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Discord messages can can solve
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everything. That's not how real life
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works. Okay, so basically what happened
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is Soul told Basil and Hitoko, right,
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that they were going to give ownership
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of Forsaken over to the game. But here's
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the thing, they never signed anything.
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And until there are legal documents
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signed, until a lawyer is present,
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until, you know, like actual
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professionals like, you know, deal with
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this, it doesn't matter, right? This
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person can tweet out all day long that
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they're going to give ownership of the
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game to to X, Y, and Z. It doesn't
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matter. It does not matter until there
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is a contract in place. Until there is
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legal work done, it what this person
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says does not matter. And that's exactly
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what happened here. Soul told Hitoko and
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Basil that they were going to give
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ownership of the game over to them. But
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they lied, right? Instead of doing that,
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they actually sold the game. According
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to this tweet here, they sold the game
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to someone named Perette or Perier.
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Here's actually a screenshot right here.
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In fact, um I actually have his Roblox
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account up. This is the guy right here
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that now owns Forsaken. And let me just
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explain what that means, right? This guy
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is the owner of Forsaken, right? He he
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now owns the game. Basil and and uh
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Hitoko, hopefully I'm saying their names
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right. They no long they they well they
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never own the game, right? They they
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never own the game because there was
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never any legal paperwork or anything
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like that. This guy owns the game.
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Whether he owns a 100% of the game or
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whether he owns 50% of the game and and
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Soul and Ava still own the other 50%. I
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I I don't really know. But this guy is
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now the owner of the game. Now, who is
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this guy? Well, I I actually don't know.
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According to Alex Tanuki here, this is
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someone that um he they tweeted. They
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said, "I promise you Periad isn't a bad
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guy. He's profit first, but he also
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cares." So, basically what this guy does
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is he buys games and then I I guess like
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resells them later for like a high
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amounts of money or or something like
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that or buys them and like we've been
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over this, right? The same thing
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happened with Grow a Garden and and and
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fish and and do big and you know all
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these studios. They buy a game and then
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they they add monetization to it or they
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resell it and they they try to make
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money off of it, right? Like that that's
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what these people do, right? And so this
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is this is this is the reality. This guy
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owns the game. If this guy wanted to
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delete the game right now, he could. If
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he wanted to fire the entire development
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team of Forsaken, he could do that if he
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wanted to. He He now owns the game,
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right? Like that that's the reality. And
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a lot of people are worried. It's like,
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oh my god, what's going to happen to
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Forsaken now? Is it going to turn into a
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a situation like does Doobig own Skin
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Walkers now, too? Good lord, they just
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buy everything.
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Is this going to turn into a situation
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where, you know, Forsaken gets owned by
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one of these big corporations that just
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loads the game up with monetization and
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pay to win mechanics and loot boxes and
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then, you know, 5 months from now, the
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game's dead. Looking at you, fish. Um, I
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don't know. I don't know. I don't I
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don't know this Priette guy. I I've no
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idea what he's about, right? I I I have
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no idea. But anyway, last night I
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tweeted the developers and I was like,
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"It's late, so excuse me if I'm missing
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details here, but basically the TLDDR is
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the previous owner sold the game to a
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new owner instead of giving ownership of
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the game to you as agreed upon." Here's
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the deal. Apologies if not, but I'm
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going to assume that most of the dev
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team is young here. The reality is this
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is a million dollar plus IP that you
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have on Roblox with Forsaken. IP stands
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for intellectual property if you didn't
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know. Considering the situation, you
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need lawyers involved yesterday. You
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can't just transfer ownership of
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something like this without proper
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paperwork and legal documents or you're
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asking for trouble. There's really too
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much to say in just one tweet. But the
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reality here is you're now running a
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game studio. You now have a business.
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There's large amounts of money involved
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and the previous owner allegedly
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committed crimes. You need legal reps on
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this ASAP. Unless proper legal docs were
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signed, so could and probably has full
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rights to do whatever they want. Until
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pen is put to paper, you likely own
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nothing. And then I said I'd hop on a
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call with them and and talk through
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everything, right? And that's what we've
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done. Um, for the past like uh, you
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know, 12 hours or so, actually almost 24
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hours at this point, I guess. Uh, I I've
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been in contact with the Forsaken
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Development team, I've been kind of
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walking them through this. Um, I'm not
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saying this to like throw shade at them
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or anything. I think they're genuinely
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great people. After talking with them, I
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I they're awesome, right? Like like 100%
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they genuinely care about the game and
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the community and and like they're not
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in it for the money. They're they're
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not, you know, they're not those people.
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They're not these big corporations,
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right? So, like hats off to the the
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development team of Forsaken. They're
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awesome. But anyway, I've been talking
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to them and it's like, look, a lot of
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these a lot of these devs, you know,
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they are kids. They they they don't know
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what they're doing. And I I I mean, case
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in point, the fact that we're even in
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this situation is is proof of that,
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right? Forsaken is a Roblox game that is
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making millions of dollars a year. And
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whenever you have a game that's making
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tens of thousands, hundreds of
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thousands, millions of dollars a year,
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you need to have a legal representative.
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You need to have lawyers. You need to
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have structures. You need to register,
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you know, like the game as like a
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business entity. There's so much legal
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stuff that you have to do, right? And I
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know it's not fun to do that. I know
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that you probably don't like doing that,
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but the reality is if you don't do that,
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you get screwed. And that's exactly what
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happened here. The developers of
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Forsaken got screwed, right? Because
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there was no contract. There was no
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legal paperwork, nothing like that,
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right? Like you you just have to, right?
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Like this game makes millions of dollars
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a year. Congratulations, you now own a
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business, right? Congratulations. You
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now run a a a pretty much a AAA
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development team. Whether you like it or
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not, you have to treat it like this.
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This is the position you're in. Um
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that's just the reality, right? And
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again, I'm not saying this to shade the
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developers or anything like that. Again,
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they're young. They didn't know. A lot
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of developers on Roblox, they don't know
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these things, right? They make a game at
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the age of 15, that game blows up, pops
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off, starts making millions of dollars,
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and you know, they don't take the proper
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steps to protect themselves. And now
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we're in this situation. But anyway,
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I've been in contact with the
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developers. Here's what's going to
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happen. Look, I I know I've only been in
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this community for like five five days,
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six days. Uh, seven days. Seven days.
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Let's go. Um, but look, here's the
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thing. Like I said, I I think my track
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record here on Roblox speaks for itself.
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I I don't like pay to win mechanics. I
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don't like over monetization. Shoot. I
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I've had I've had I've I've almost had
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meetings with legal representatives,
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state representatives. They they
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canceled the meeting beforehand, but
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like I've tried to get loot boxes banned
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in the United States, right? Like I am
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so vehemantly against that stuff. Like
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look, these are some developers that uh
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you know, their values align with my
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values. This is a game that is made by
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fans for the fans. I do not want to see
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this game hand or fall into the hands of
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some big corporation that only cares
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about the money. That's the reality,
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right? So, I reached out to these
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developers um and I can't really say
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much um but we are going to be um
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exploring every possible avenue to make
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sure that the game is good. All right.
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And and and you know that everyone who's
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been working on the game continues to
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work on the game that the you know
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original development team can stay and
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work on the game besides Solva
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obviously. But we're you know we're
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trying to make sure everything is good.
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There's there's tons of different
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options that that are on the table right
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now. tons of different pathways, tons of
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different, you know, like roads that
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that, you know, we can go down. Just
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know that I am helping these devs out.
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We are working on it and um hopefully
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this can be a collaborative effort to uh
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to make sure that the game stays good
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and stays out of the hands of uh you
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know, these greedy corporations. I also
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want to go back to what I said at the
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beginning of the video, right? Whenever
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there is a situation where someone is
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apparently or allegedly committing
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crimes or doing something illegal, this
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is why you get proper authorities
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involved. Whether that be lawyers,
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whether that be uh the police, whether
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that be whoever it may be, Roblox,
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Discord, whatever it is, right? Because
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yay, you ran this person off of Twitter.
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Fantastic. You did it. Well, actually,
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no. In fact, they just um they they
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might have possibly just killed the
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entire game, right? They may have just
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possibly killed the entire game. Um that
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that's why that's why it's important to
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do things uh the the right way, the
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professional way, etc., etc., etc.,
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right? Um hopefully this all makes
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sense. If you're any kids out there, if
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there's any kids out there that watching
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this video and they have a Roblox game
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and like it it blows up, please, please,
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please, please, please, please make sure
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you're crossing your tees, dotting your
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eyes, right? It's very, very important.
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Otherwise, you'll run into a situation
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where I I mean, look, this is a great
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game. I love this game. But right now,
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this game is in the hands and is
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completely owned by someone like this. I
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say completely, it might be like a 50-50
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deal. I don't know. I don't know the
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terms of of the deal that um that Soul
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and Ava sold, you know, to this guy. It
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could be a 50-50 deal where Soul and Ava
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are still getting 50% of the game and
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this guy's like the new owner of it and
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it's his job to keep, you know, making
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the game. It's kind of like what uh what
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Grow Garden is, right? Like Grow Garden,
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Doobig doesn't own 100% of the game. The
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original developer that they bought the
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game from keeps 50%, so they they keep
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earning 50% of the game each month,
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right? And then Doo Big and Jandle gets
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the other 50%. It could be a situation
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like that where this guy's getting 50%
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of the game and then Soul and Ava will
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continue to get the other 50%. Like we
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just we just don't know, right? This is
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part of the conversations that I'm going
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to have uh with this guy, with the
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current developers. I I I I just want to
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look I know I like I said, I've only
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been in this community for like a week,
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but like I like what this game stands
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for. This game stands for what
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everything Roblox used to represent
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before all these greedy corporations and
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companies came in and started messing
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about, right? Not saying that this guy's
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a greedy corporation or company or
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anything like that. I don't know him.
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I've not met him, right? So maybe this
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guy is cool cool beans. I don't know. I
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don't want to I don't want to hate on
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this guy, right? But like maybe he's a
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great dude. I don't know. I we we'll
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talk to him, right? I'm I'm going to
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meet him. I just like what this game
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stands for and I don't want to see it uh
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go down the drain because of some owners
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that didn't know what they were doing in
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the form of Soul and Ava that also maybe
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quite possibly um very high chance that
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they did something illegal, right? So
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like does that make sense? Hopefully
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that makes sense. Anyway, what a
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situation. What a what a crazy
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situation. Um I'll keep you guys
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updated. Um I'm sure the developers will
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will keep everyone updated. Uh but for
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right now, look, here's the thing. If
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you're a fan of this game, give give the
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developers, give Basil and uh and H
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Highco uh where's he at? Here he is.
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Right here. Hi Tokco. Um look, they're
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going to need some time to get
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everything situated, right? So like
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there's a lot of things that they can't
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say right now. There's a lot of things
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that they shouldn't say right now just
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because like this is a whole legal
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thing, right? Like there there's there's
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so many like things happening at once,
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right? So like there's not going to be a
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lot of answers for a bit. That's okay.
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They're not hiding anything or anything
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like that. It's just like legally, you
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know, this is this is now a legal
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situation, right? Like this is now a
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legal situation basically. So, um that's
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kind of where we're at. Anyway, crazy
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crazy day. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Um, I'll
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see you guys next
