Draft:Ruben Sim

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Ruben Sim
Born
Benjamin Robert Simon

May 12, 1997
United States United States
NationalityAmerican
Other namesRuben Sim
OccupationYouTuber
Years active2009 - present-day
Known forExposing predators and the Roblox team.

Benjamin Robert Simon (born: May 12, 1997), known online as Ruben Sim, is an American YouTuber known for his Roblox gaming and criticism videos. Multiple accounts were terminated for his actions in criticizing the Roblox moderation team.

He is a co-creator of the Roblox game Runker 51, a Roblox game based on the 2019 Storm Area 51 event.[1][2][3]

Political views

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Runker 51 Hong Kong exhibit

He is heavily opposed to Chinese censorship, he is pro-Taiwanese and pro-Democratic, as he criticized for China's crackdown on Tiananmen Square, and dozens more of incidents regarding the Chinese Communist Party. [4]

He also invited a person from Mainland China to the international branch of Roblox, he also criticized many features regarding the Chinese branch of Roblox, including the mass censorship on games violating it's rules and standards. He quoted: "Getting over the Firewall from the US is easy because most Chinese websites don't refuse connection to American IPs," [5][4]

Ruben Sim vs David Baszucki

Ruben Sim and David Baszucki used to have a connection but in the late 2010s their connections and affiliation began to collapse by 2016s and 2020s which eventually led Ruben Sim's video visiting the Roblox Headquarters being taken down due to copyright.[6]

Criticism against the Roblox team

On April 21, 2015 Simon uploaded a video after a five-year lack of uploads titled "David Baszucki gives us a tour of ROBLOX HQ" which was Simon's first YouTube video about Roblox, the video was a satirical criticism of Roblox's moderation, as of November 2021 the YouTube video had received over 400,000 views.[7]

Simon would upload 18 more times in 2015 with another video titled "A bird died in my hands today." where Simon shows a dead bird in his hands, which he precedes to throw while stating "fly one last time."

On January 24th, 2016 Simon uploaded a YouTube video titled "The Beautiful Community of Phantom Forces" Phantom Forces is a Roblox game based on Call Of Duty, a game known for it's toxic (hateful) community. The video showed chat messages in the roblox public chat system within the game which tended to be mean spirited. The video has over 450,000 views as of November 2021.

On June 28, 2018 Simon uploaded a video titled "The Roblox Hospital Experience" where he plays a Roblox hospital game titled "The Robloxian General Hospital" and jokingly role-plays as if he has a broken spine. The video has over 7.1 million views as of November 2021.[8]

On June 28, 2019 Simon uploaded a video titled "The Roblox Boot Camp Experience" where he joins a Roblox role-playing group about joining the army. In the video another Player had changed their skin tone on Roblox to purple, the person role-playing as the drill instructer asked him to change it, the user with the purple skin tone asked asked "what color", the drill instructer then said "like this man colored" while referencing a white man, the user with the purple skin tone jokingly asks "can i not be black?", to which the drill instructed shoots him in Roblox, as of November 2021 the video has 4.3 million views.[9]

On April 28th, 2020 Simon uploaded a video titled "How Bloody Can Roblox Games Get?" where he criticized Roblox's decision to take down his Roblox game due to "blood and gore", stating that there are much more bloodier and gorier games on Roblox.[1][10][11][12]

Controversy

He gained controversy because of apparently causing a 'cybermob'[13] on the platform which terrorized children by their perspective of view on the events. In 2021, Ruben Sim was legally banned by the United States court and sued for 1.6 million USD which caused tons of controversy upon the amount of cash, and the testimony and the response of the Roblox Corporation was that "Ruben Sim was terrorizing children and it's employees and plotting a cybermob" which the Roblox employees faced even more attacks from the public because of the trial.[14][15][16]

He also gained controversy for supporting Taiwan and creating a Tiananmen Square massacre memorial on the platform and inviting a user from the People's Republic[17] to Roblox and promoting a anti-Communist sentiment according to sources and pro-Chinese viewers.[4]

He was falsely accused of being a Nazi sympathizer on Reddit and many social media platforms and falsely accused of plotting many other controversies.[18]

References

  1. ^ a b "Ruben Sim". Wikitubia. Retrieved 2024-04-10.
  2. ^ RUNKER 51 Trailer. Retrieved 2024-04-10 – via www.youtube.com.
  3. ^ "Runker 51 Wiki". runker51.fandom.com. Retrieved 2024-04-10.
  4. ^ a b c Sneaking Chinese Roblox Users Over The Firewall. Retrieved 2024-04-10 – via YouTube.
  5. ^ https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2021/11/roblox-china-firewall-ruben-sim.html
  6. ^ https://twitter.com/Roblox_RTC/status/1371411678294855683
  7. ^ Sim, Ruben. David Baszucki gives us a tour of ROBLOX HQ (Parody). Retrieved 2024-04-10 – via www.youtube.com.
  8. ^ Sim, Ruben. The Roblox Hospital Experience. Retrieved 2024-04-10 – via YouTube.
  9. ^ Sim, Ruben. The Roblox Boot Camp Experience. Retrieved 2024-04-10 – via www.youtube.com.
  10. ^ "Ruben Sim". RationalWiki. Retrieved 2024-04-10.
  11. ^ ThatBoredGamer. Ruben Sim's Furry Conflict & Almost Blackmailed | There, I Saved You A Minute. Retrieved 2024-04-10 – via YouTube.
  12. ^ Sim, Ruben. How Gruesome Can Roblox Games Get?. Retrieved 2024-04-10 – via YouTube.
  13. ^ Murray, Sean (2021-11-25). "Roblox Sues YouTuber For Leading "Cybermob" That Terrorizes Kids". TheGamer. Retrieved 2024-04-10.
  14. ^ Dodgson, Lindsay. "A Roblox YouTuber was fined and permanently banned from the game by a US court after the company accused him of terrorizing users and its employees". Business Insider. Retrieved 2024-04-10.
  15. ^ Carpenter, Nicole (2022-01-21). "Court orders YouTuber to stay off Roblox". Polygon. Retrieved 2024-04-10.
  16. ^ https://www.sportskeeda.com/roblox-news/youtube-star-ruben-sim-left-empty-pockets-legal-battle-roblox
  17. ^ Not to be confused with other communist nations. This is the People's Republic of China from 1949 to present day, for those living under a rock
  18. ^ thrownawayacc2 (2019-12-30). "Ruben Sim, a roblox youtuber, is a facist sympathizer, his YouTube channel seems innocent but his discord server show exactly what kind of person he and his fan base are". Reddit. Retrieved 2024-04-10.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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