Court orders Roblox YouTuber Ruben Sim to stay off Roblox

A court in Oakland, California has issued an order Roblox YouTube creator Ruben Sim to stay off the popular gaming platform from which he’s been banned for several years, according to court documents obtained by Polygon.

The Roblox Corporation filed a lawsuit against Sim in November, accusing the YouTuber of leading a “cybermob” that terrorized the platform. The original damages sought by Sim were $1.6 million. However, the amount was reduced to $150,000 under a legally binding order.

Sim’s turbulent and long history has been with The Roblox platform, where people — largely children — build games and digital worlds. With thousands of games available on the platform, and a storefront that sells them many more, it is worth an estimated $45 billion.

It Roblox platform is a free app, so when one account is banned, it’s easy to simply make another. Roblox Corporation can ban IP accounts accessing servers from certain circumstances. Sim has continued to access the platform despite his original ban by “hacking” and using accounts created by other people, Roblox complaint says. The original ban, according to Roblox’s lawyers, was issued after the YouTube creator harassed other players using racist and homophobic slurs, allegedly sexually harassed users, and uploaded photos of Adolph Hitler to Roblox. Sim refuted this assertion in a YouTube clip uploaded last week.

Alongside the court-ordered ban and $150,000 in fines, Sim has also agreed not to make, publish, or republish “false threats of terrorist activity relating to Roblox.” This was one major accusation levied in the initial lawsuit, after the YouTuber allegedly posted a message on Twitter suggesting a terrorist attack would happen at the Roblox Developers Conference in San Francisco in October 2021. The event was delayed and “forced into a temporary lockdown while local police and private security conducted a search to secure the facility,” according to the lawsuit.

Sim also agreed that he would not make falsified statements concerning RobloxIncite violence Robloxoder its employees or offices, you can go to the Roblox OfficeCreate videos to encourage and glorify violating Roblox’s rules or gaining access to the platform after being banned.

He’ll also need to remove any previous YouTube videos that violate these terms.

Ruben Sim declined to comment on the lawsuit, but noted that his response to the complaint will be uploaded to his YouTube channel in the “next couple months.” The Roblox Corporation has not responded to Polygon’s request for comment.