Roblox players are using face tracking to make the best memes

If I can count on one thing, it’s that Roblox users will meme just about anything. So of course, when developers at Roblox released a useful new feature that adds face tracking to the game, players didn’t just use it to enhance communication, but instead to make jokey videos. TikTok has become a hub of memes created by players who are using this new feature.

Roblox is a platform where users can create and publish games, as well as play one another’s games using an avatar. Roblox’s developers released a feature on Tuesday that lets players 13 and over use face tracking. This allows their avatar to be animated based off a video feed. A representative told Polygon that the feature is “part of a series of interactive features we have available so people can communicate and express themselves like never before.”

If you enable the Roblox face-matching feature, then your Roblox character will look like your own. If you talk, the mouth will move — and if you smile the avatar will smile. The tool has been used to create goofy video by users.

This feature is only available with avatars that can be animated. One of these faces has already become a meme. The smirking Roblox guy face has been used in shitposts, memes, and other shitposts by players since Roblox first released it. Users are using interactive versions to create videos. This video from TikTok user, Bussiepoppinshaker81, shows one of the avatars lip-syncing to an audio clip, to more than 3.2 million views. The character bobs its head as it says, “Wake yo ass up, because it’s time to go beast mode.” At the end, the character winks as the base drops.

There’s another avatar face that’s more detailed. This face has been used by players to show how creepy eyeballs and eyebrows can look. It sort of reminds me of Apple’s Memoji, but a little more busted and a whole lot more uncanny.

So far, players can’t replicate the nuances of the fuckboy emoji, but that hasn’t stopped them from using the camera to rizz players up.

This feature is currently being refined. However, I can’t wait to see the mayhem that unfolds once it rolls out to an even wider audience.