Forgot to mention that Roblox already knew about this kind of exploit since 2016, but what did they do? Nothing... NOTE: Somewhere in this documentary for some reason my editing program duplicated one of the text bars to show an information 2 times
@@fatzombie6790 the kid is like a 9yo little boy, judging from the voice. HE SHOULD NOT be online to begin with. let alone on ttv. In that situation the hacker is actually the hero. his parents need to do better. Any kid under 13 shouldn't be online at all.
@@olivergamez4030 yup that's sad and bad parenting. and also society letting kids down. No need for verifying age. Let kids who are 4 years old see adult things VERY easily on google, peoples roblox profiles, bypassed shirts, bypassed games, predators on games the 4yos are on, etc. Absolutely horrendous.
I'm proud to be inactive, this whole community has wholy gone to shit, i havent played in nearly 3 years and joined 2010 and ever since that time Roblox changed that logo, the rest is history ):
That poor little kid. He was just tryna have fun streaming on Roblox and people just want him to play the game that gets him banned and they ended up laughing at him
For clarification, Popbob actually comes from 2b2t, the oldest anarchy server in Minecraft. They were the the biggest griefer at his height, even gaining access to server Admin Commands which allowed him to have full control over 2b2t. He was an extremely talented coder, creating numerous plug-ins for Housmaster, the owner of 2b2t. I don't know if this guy is Popbob himself, or just a simple wannabe, but I just wanted to leave that out there so people know where the name comes from.
This is completely the fault of Roblox and they need to apologize. A multi billion dollar company can’t be this lazy. EDIT: And like most of the comments i started a fight.
I can tell you about it - they are handling millions of players playing live, but they still got their database breached by some random people. I agree with you and roblox should take full responsibility over these incidents.
Man, this honestly sucks so much, like imagine being an innocent kid playing Roblox and then getting your account banned unfairly, especially if you spent a lot of money on your account. It makes me so mad at both Roblox and the hackers behind this, Roblox knew this was a possiblity but did nothing to try and stop it other than warn people not to do this and the hackers got so many innocent accounts banned (a lot of them also likely put money into their account). And the fact some people tried to lure other players into this trap makes it even worse. This is easily the worst incident to have happened on this site besides the April fool's 2012 hacking. Roblox seriously needs to step up their moderation and stop being driven by greed.
Luckily clarkt1000 got unbanned, the person who actually did it thought it was a lie that the roblox community thought it was not a lie so they let him join the game, so they didnt actually mean to get him banned. This situation because of this happening and people saying “people trying to lure him into the trap” makes me rly frustrated.
The reason Roblox didn’t patch it was because they would have to move the chat to core ai, this transition could mean days without chat or even days of Roblox being down.
You should have included the screenshots of the hacker’s bans. Some of them got ip banned and one got terminated threatening legal action if they bypass the ban. Instead of the appeal link the bottom said, “you are ineligible to appeal”.
and *if* i’m correct one got poison banned (can’t make an account anymore) and another got hardware banned (having to buy a whole new pc to make an account), unless it’s a lie
@@Avqoriaa I hope they got poison banned. The ban threatening legal action if circumvented and without the ability to appeal wasn’t a poison ban bc it didn’t have “and new account creation has been disabled”.
I think the "switching from abusing an exploit" to "exposing roblox moderation" is like the bungie copyright takedowns incident all over again. You are not protecting yourself by switching. You aren't a "freedom fighter" or a hero, you are doing something shitty in order to "prove and expose" a point that has been proven multiple times before. I find it dumb how people can think this will make people get on their side, but hey, obvious mentality of the children that did this
the people who created the crosswoods game completely understand that (they have mentioned it in further discord messages). they aren’t trying to be heroes or anything, they are people who just completely have abandoned hope in the roblox system and ensued mass destruction to leave a point
@@qxarts3896 And what is that point? That the moderation is bad, because news flash, everyone knows. They just wanted to mess with people. Everything else is just excuses lmao
This whole Crosswoods situation is honestly a mess since the exploiters' "game" has caused accounts who interacted with it be falsely banned plus encouraging others to spam the link to the point the kid was crying on stream and that ROBLOX have known about this exploit since 2016, did nothing about it, still didn't respond to it, then handled it when everyone was making headlines about the "game". It's funny that Synttax had switched the direction of the exploit because it makes you think if he did that due to him being in hot water. My theory is that the exploit was intentionally made to falsely ban users for the kick of it but when ROBLOX got their heads outta the sand and banned the game/people behind it, he had to change the purpose in order to look good in front of the Roblox community.
Huge amount of respect to you for making such a great documentary on this situation. Roblox honestly needs to step up their moderation. A platform with mainly vulnerable and gullible children being this lazy and unsafe is scandalous. And if it's true that it's been around since 2016, and Roblox had not batted an eye while KNOWING that there are several hackers who will take advantage of any exploit or issue in the system is upsetting. I just hope that children were able to steer clear of this fate.
This guy’s videos are better than my school’s documentaries I swear. And, jokes aside, this is really well-made and informative. Keep up the good work!
I actually got in the exploiter’s discord, and dang they were pure evil, me and a guy with a mao pfp took it upon ourselves to spam ping the server until we got banned, and we actually managed to convince people to join us or leave, our efforts were not in vain
"Please do NOT attack the people who are responsible for the incident" Screw up, they didn't got no remorse for their actions, less they'll care if we harass them. They are psicopaths and a danger for all of us.
Yeah seriously, Why would DWC even do this? Seriously, Their getting nothing from it but banning innocent kids, One of the members have said it was for “Showing roblox to make their platform and moderation better” But it’s just cruel, And that can cost roblox a lot of money, And it could get into serious legal terms.
I mean it wasnt a hack it was a simple script that was already on roblox. The aprils fools incident also occourred because there was a bad set script were the test sites could allow you to transfer things to main roblox like a roblox account token, thats how the disaster happened. By a flaw of roblox.
To be honest, i have to admit, the concept of both scripts are genius ideas. Not in a good type of way, but it goes to show how you can really take advantage of whatever kind of knowledge you have(scripting) and use it against people for your own gain. It sounds scary too. I actually just heard about this incident a few days ago and I had no clue what it was when it first started happening.
I want to make Crosswoods have an actual campaign. That would be cool. A horror game in a crimson forest, where you have to shoot down random creatures, and rescue people from a B.A.N. virus.
Unpopular opinion: Sure, this was partially Roblox's fault, but they fixed it extremely fast and unbanned most accounts, something no one compliments them for. However, when people were alerted and everyone was telling each other to not play, some people managed to either completely ignore the news, or simply join the random game/server a stranger asked them to join to. So, please, explain. Who decided to join a game a stranger asked you to join without even telling you a bit about it? Sure, there were many unfair bans, but a good number happened because people were careless. Thanks for reading.
I mean bro if u join a game someone told u to and u get ur account banned its not like you have the fault, its not like the games that ban your account are found everyday and are common
@@Miguelcrack-bm3yq it's almost impossible to not see news about this. besides, if someone tells me to join a random 0 player game without them joining first, I'd doubt them a bit.
@@penitente3337 yeah bro but for example i saw a clip from a kid that was streaming and he didnt knoe about the news because it was when it was just starting
Great documentary!! The reason why people say over 10,000 accounts were affected was because there were many games not only crosswoods thats could ban you!
My little sister got it banned because of this..I’m not mad I lost my account that I had TONS of robux on, I’m mad that my little sister can’t talk to her friends that moved away anymore. I’m not blaming Roblox for the friend thing, but seriously having to see a sad 7 year old child crying because she can’t play her favorite game anymore is just horrible… It makes me so mad the moderators don’t really take this seriously. Great documentary and hope to see you do this again soon!
When this was going very bad, I actually had to report this to the User Safety of ROBLOX The email was sent somewhere in July 18th. I explained to them about what was happening, how it worked and waited for them to reply. The system replied in 3 minutes
I don't know if someone has said this already, but anyone who has played on the minecraft server 2b2t or watched a youtuber named FitMC, knows that the name "popbob" is associated with a very well known exploiter who was responsible for many griefs and chaos. they are also part a hacker group that includes a multitude of other exploiters. I fear they have possibly moved on from minecraft, and have plans for roblox in mind.
Logically speaking it's very unlikely to be the popbob from 2b2t. Most likely some random person who thought it would be funny / cool to use the name. Either way we are screwed lol the biggest issue is Roblox not fixing this issue even though they knew about it for multiple years
Without a doubt the worst incident to ever happen on Roblox. Worse than the Chipotle Incident, worse than April Fools 2012, and thank GOD I wasn't a victim. In fact, it's a MIRACLE I wasn't. There was this poorly made RPG game I enjoyed playing in my spare time, and guess what... IT HAD KOHL'S ADMIN Thankfully the game was immediately set to private when the incident broke loose.
@@AAlgeriasyntax aint trying to be popbob, thats a insider of him. In my eyes synttax is a cruel person. Synttax is a player since 2018 and hes very known for scamming and stuff like this
I dont like how they did the crosswoods tactic to expose the horrible moderation of roblox but I am glad they focus on exposing roblox rather than screwing it up. Looking forward to this next plan
3:34 Popbob is also the name of an Infamous Player on a Minecraft Server called 2B2T, she was a pretty good Programmer but she went Offline years ago so I don't think its the same person despite the similarities
This incident, without a doubt, will go down as one of the biggest internet stunts in ROBLOX history. _And I should keep an eye out of my children from situations like this._
I have a theory about this: the account behind the Crosswoods hacking was actually a person who just wanted to make their own version of crossroads called Crosswoods. Crosswoods would have had a very similar gameplay style, where people would fight each other forever until they get bored. While the player was making the game, a hacker decided to target a small up and coming roblox game creator and make their game ban players, and they targeted the creator of crosswoods. The game got turned into a blank roblox game. Btw I just got to the part about pop bob, and pop bob was actually the name of a famous Minecraft anarchy server hacker. He would troll players on the server before he quit after years of the server. With this information I think that popbob has moved away from Minecraft and started targeting the young main audience of roblox. He wanted to get easy money from them so he stole the game from the original creator, used the gamepads to get robux from players, dev ex it into money, then get the players banned so that they can't report the taken over account. We should all fear the Crosswoods hacker pop bob, as we don't know what he's going to strike us with next. I'd suggest that you research the history of the Minecraft anarchy server 2b2t about this man as he could bring the fate of roblox as we know it.
OKAY first I want to say WHAT AMAZING EDITING SKILLS YOU HAVE LIKE WHAAAT! And second, it honestly was horrible and I’m so glad I felt sick on the day everyone was getting banned and I didn’t stream. I honestly would have probably joined it because I didn’t know it existed
i love the editing in this video but i didnt realise while i was celebrating my birthday this game banned a streamer and lots of other people im glad they have their accounts back
What ClientERROR did was the absolute WORST thing anyone did on Roblox, even worse than Ellernate causing the April Fools Incident in 2012. He (ClientERROR) honestly deserved his ban because of the massive damage he did, even higher than Ellernate's. I hope everyone will be safe and that the same situation won't happen.
Hey, nice video you've made. I've been watching your channel for a long time and you've improved so much. Glad to come back to see you getting more fame!
I didn’t even know this was going on, I was probably playing a game while this was happening. I had heard of crosswoods and how terrible it was but I thought it was because it allowed you to say bad words and people started getting their accounts banned because of it or something but no. Kinda crazy. Did roblox IP ban the dude behind this?
an issue i have with this is LITERALLY EVERY COMMENT TALKS ABOUT POPBOB BEING IN 2B2T AND THAT THEY GONNA GO PLAY CROSSWOODS LIKE POST SOMETHING ORIGINAL
I usually hate documentary's because I don't learn anything or it's boring but this was fun to watch also they are actually back now they have released more games and are using that same twitch method to promote the link. A twitch streamer recently fell for this so they are back at again and roblox Is doing a much better job on banning them!
Would an account that had chat disabled and age under 13, would they still have been affected by the script? I'm curious as to see what's going on in the background of all of this since there are small slivers of different colors and shapes on the side so at least some assets were dumped in there and are being covered by this eerie red screen.
I'm just so glad I don't usually press the discover button because all the games out there are just plain boring to me and it helped me prevent stumbling upon Crosswoods.
huge respect for you my man, this is some netflix docuseries type of editing, keep it up, I LOVE THE MUSIC CHOICE, really gets u curious, keep it up man.
Normal bans: Your account has been terminated. Offensive item: hi Reason: Harassment Crosswoods bans: Your account has been terminated. Offensive item: i love children Reason: Child Endangerment Wait, what? Why do they terminate your account because the hack caused you to say inappropriate things but normally (or commonly) they terminate you for saying hi? HOW???!!
Given these facts you have gave out, you are amazing. This games show that how flawed this game really are and what the business can do. Seems like Roblox is a huge platform and game are counted so many.
This- this right here, this incident, is just evidence to show how terrible Roblox security truly is. This exploit has been around since 2016, and they did not think to patch it then. The only way to make Roblox fix something that is actually broken is to make it huge, make it way more of an issue. And that goes for almost every major change. We had to backlash. Truly crazy to me how a billion dollar corporation can be endangered so quickly by a group of minor exploiters.
@@skibedobappowbob6704 "truly crazy" no it's not, vtech got hacked by a minor, then nintendo by the same minor, then microsoft by the same minor, and to top it all off NORTH KOREA GOT FUCKING HACKED BY THE SAME MINOR
@@JoeWithTheHoesBiden Same minor. I understand your point, (and that kid is persistent oh my g o d) but for something like that to hit Roblox is still crazy to me. Also, it was the same minor for all of those instances, making me think they were very educated in that field. This is a group of exploiting amateurs we are talking about.
@@lepury7110 Clark (one of the victims of the incident) got his account back a day after the incident came to an end. I think Roblox can ReActivate terminated accounts. But I could be wrong
Way to unban deleted Step 1 joining crosswood or breaking the rule in roblox Step 2 see your account deleted Step 3 go to support select moderation and appeal account for content Step 4 that it they will bring you account back from account deleted (has small chance 30 day) or maybe it work?
“Syn calls himself popbob.” For those who don’t know popbob is a semi-inactive 2b2t player that is trans and was a notorious player on the server back a long time ago now he mostly plays on alts (we only know this because some randoms made fun of him for being trans and he blew up their base and wrote a sign with his current name) but is also involved in Nerds Inc. which is a group that literally tries to mess up the server on the daily and it’s social media most notably the subreddit was hacked by members of Nerds Inc and there was a massive server exploit that recently happened due to him. I knew a guy named Syn on 2b2t when I used to play on the server and he was a semi-known pvper. Though most likely it isn’t the same person but it’s a possibility as I seen him stream Roblox in the past in some 2b2t discord servers.
"Popbob" is in reference to a notorious griefer who used to play on the "oldest minecraft anarchy server", 2b2t. There's a few videos by FitMC that tells the tale pretty well, just with a little hyperbole.
imagine literally just caused a big mayhem and chaos within the community causing most people to lose their account and then proceed to blame it all on the moderation system like "It's all their fault and totally not my ability to exploit the system" I gonna need my medication after this
I don't know if anyone else made this connection but seeing that Synttax also goes by "PopBob" INSTANTLY made me think of the hacker popbob from 2b2t minecraft
I'm glad that I have never even joined any of these games during my spare time, I protect my account how i want it to be and not let it be banned out of any Bannable Models, Names, and even Game Experiences that involves the same thing as the Crosswoods. Thank god I am safe.
Thank you so much I was really confused abt this whole situation I only knew not to livestream any games or play crosswoods so thank you for clearing that up! also that editing is on point!
Just to further expand on if you didn’t really know what was happening, the chat service is sorta flawed. Resulting in it to allow the “exploiters” (more like a loophole tbh) to manipulate your client to chatting things unfiltered triggering that termination or ban. Most likely a loop as you joined to spam chat.
As someone who joined roblox in 2023, this is terrifying. I'm so glad this appeared on my youtube recommended as I now know not to trust suspicious games.
It's really stupid that they have to do it like this. They could make people get banned for 3 days and it would already be a major issue. Besides, I am doubting their motives were even to prove roblox has to bad moderation, but rather just trolling (because of the vid literally saying they did trolling) To be honest, I agree that roblox' bad moderation should be proven to them and have them do something, but they just took it way too far.
I hope the crosswoods makers are happy i had a nightmare about my account getting banned forever from playing this game and i actually thought i got banned but luckily it was just a dream good job explaining btw
Me too lmao i had a nightmare that i was playing idk like the normal elevator then suddenly i saw the red crosswoods screen then i got the fake "possible raid warning" error, which kicked me out of the game and i got perma banned and the ban note said "you are not welcome to roblox" and the roblox app deleted itself from my computer. luckily that was just a dream but that was scary af
How to be safe, MUST DO. 1- Do not play any suspicious game, any game who has 1 player or 4 means it’s crosswood in a time. (Not all) 2- DISABLE CHAT. So that if you join crosswoods by accident you cannot say those weird things. *(HIGHLY RECOMMENDED, MUST DO!)* 3- DO NOT PLAY ANY ROBLOX LINK YOUR FRIENDS GIVE YOU. 4- Play only popular games. Thank you. Have a nice day!
Idk just be cautious when you see kohls admin, dont join crosswoods, and hope that your stream doesnt get nuked if you stream Also i think using the new chat helps defend against it, but just because the protection is better, doesnt mean itll be permanently safe. _There will eventually be someone who breaches the new chat system. Even if it takes 5 years to happen._
Unfortunately some users have taken advantage of this situation to actually say really inappropriate things to minors and pass it off as one of the exploits.
00:08 "Please do NOT attack the people who are responsible for the incident" If you mean the people covering the issue, fair. But if you mean the people who actually set up the ban games... Why?
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Forgot to mention that Roblox already knew about this kind of exploit since 2016, but what did they do? Nothing...
NOTE: Somewhere in this documentary for some reason my editing program duplicated one of the text bars to show an information 2 times
Yeah, that's what Roblox will always do
They only take action when action is taken
Anyone else wanna protest outside the Roblox building?
Not what you could expect from a multi billion dollar company having emails, passwords e.t.c of billions of users.
The fact that this entire thing could have been avoided by not even making that chat script
Can I play Arsenal now or not?
but imagine being 7 years old and getting banned for child endangerment. and you don’t even know what happened.
It was so sad to hear that little kid cry imagine the money he put into that account only to get terminated by some asshole beamer
@@fatzombie6790 the kid is like a 9yo little boy, judging from the voice. HE SHOULD NOT be online to begin with. let alone on ttv. In that situation the hacker is actually the hero. his parents need to do better. Any kid under 13 shouldn't be online at all.
@@AfraidMonstersI got Roblox when I was 8.. and my sis got Roblox when she was 6 and my cousin got Roblox when he was 4
@@olivergamez4030 yup that's sad and bad parenting. and also society letting kids down. No need for verifying age. Let kids who are 4 years old see adult things VERY easily on google, peoples roblox profiles, bypassed shirts, bypassed games, predators on games the 4yos are on, etc. Absolutely horrendous.
@@AfraidMonsters that doesnt mean he deserved getting terminated for something he didnt do?? its obviously not his fault
Ah yes, an incident i completely missed due to my inactivity. I’m proud of myself.
Same
Same i became inactive plus that time was my bday🗿🗿🗿
I'm proud to be inactive, this whole community has wholy gone to shit, i havent played in nearly 3 years and joined 2010 and ever since that time Roblox changed that logo, the rest is history ):
dont feel pride
I got back to being active during december, holy shit I'm lucky.
That poor little kid. He was just tryna have fun streaming on Roblox and people just want him to play the game that gets him banned and they ended up laughing at him
@@yourhiqhnesss Idiots
@@yourhiqhnesssseriously, wtf are you thinking
its actually funny
@@funnyprankscrhisfunny but cruel
@@southernbrain691 yeah
For clarification, Popbob actually comes from 2b2t, the oldest anarchy server in Minecraft. They were the the biggest griefer at his height, even gaining access to server Admin Commands which allowed him to have full control over 2b2t. He was an extremely talented coder, creating numerous plug-ins for Housmaster, the owner of 2b2t. I don't know if this guy is Popbob himself, or just a simple wannabe, but I just wanted to leave that out there so people know where the name comes from.
The real popbob is 1000x better smh
also popbob is a girl just fyi
@@the_actual_alex no fucking way really?
@@gladgreenidiot yeah they're MtF trans
@@the_actual_alex they probably hanged themselves then
This is completely the fault of Roblox and they need to apologize. A multi billion dollar company can’t be this lazy. EDIT: And like most of the comments i started a fight.
Also, Popbob is a developer on 2b2t and knows a lot about software disrupting.
I can tell you about it - they are handling millions of players playing live, but they still got their database breached by some random people. I agree with you and roblox should take full responsibility over these incidents.
Tf2 mods are better than these roblox mfs
Correction -300b dollar company
Yeah alteast a free item for the mistake
Man, this honestly sucks so much, like imagine being an innocent kid playing Roblox and then getting your account banned unfairly, especially if you spent a lot of money on your account. It makes me so mad at both Roblox and the hackers behind this, Roblox knew this was a possiblity but did nothing to try and stop it other than warn people not to do this and the hackers got so many innocent accounts banned (a lot of them also likely put money into their account). And the fact some people tried to lure other players into this trap makes it even worse. This is easily the worst incident to have happened on this site besides the April fool's 2012 hacking. Roblox seriously needs to step up their moderation and stop being driven by greed.
I agree with you 100%
Roblox need to improve their moderation system
@@Crazytrain2015 true, Roblox needs to fix their moderation and stop being too greedy
Luckily clarkt1000 got unbanned, the person who actually did it thought it was a lie that the roblox community thought it was not a lie so they let him join the game, so they didnt actually mean to get him banned. This situation because of this happening and people saying “people trying to lure him into the trap” makes me rly frustrated.
@@courierdubois That is false, the person who sent Clark the link (swrlies) said "ez, get termed lol" as the kid was crying.
The reason Roblox didn’t patch it was because they would have to move the chat to core ai, this transition could mean days without chat or even days of Roblox being down.
You should have included the screenshots of the hacker’s bans. Some of them got ip banned and one got terminated threatening legal action if they bypass the ban. Instead of the appeal link the bottom said, “you are ineligible to appeal”.
where can i find those screenshots?
Hmm interesting, do you know where I could find them
and *if* i’m correct one got poison banned (can’t make an account anymore) and another got hardware banned (having to buy a whole new pc to make an account), unless it’s a lie
@@Avqoriaa I hope they got poison banned. The ban threatening legal action if circumvented and without the ability to appeal wasn’t a poison ban bc it didn’t have “and new account creation has been disabled”.
@@YouBlox-rd9cc no i’m not saying that specific one, im saying other alts/people behind it
I think the "switching from abusing an exploit" to "exposing roblox moderation" is like the bungie copyright takedowns incident all over again. You are not protecting yourself by switching. You aren't a "freedom fighter" or a hero, you are doing something shitty in order to "prove and expose" a point that has been proven multiple times before. I find it dumb how people can think this will make people get on their side, but hey, obvious mentality of the children that did this
the people who created the crosswoods game completely understand that (they have mentioned it in further discord messages). they aren’t trying to be heroes or anything, they are people who just completely have abandoned hope in the roblox system and ensued mass destruction to leave a point
@@qxarts3896 so there will be another villain arc of this thing, man
light yagami vibes tbh.
Also literally everyone already knew that the moderation was terrible. Thats not new dude.
@@qxarts3896 And what is that point? That the moderation is bad, because news flash, everyone knows. They just wanted to mess with people. Everything else is just excuses lmao
5:27 he didn't say the game will have a "better trust", he just said "trust" as in "trust me"
This whole Crosswoods situation is honestly a mess since the exploiters' "game" has caused accounts who interacted with it be falsely banned plus encouraging others to spam the link to the point the kid was crying on stream and that ROBLOX have known about this exploit since 2016, did nothing about it, still didn't respond to it, then handled it when everyone was making headlines about the "game".
It's funny that Synttax had switched the direction of the exploit because it makes you think if he did that due to him being in hot water. My theory is that the exploit was intentionally made to falsely ban users for the kick of it but when ROBLOX got their heads outta the sand and banned the game/people behind it, he had to change the purpose in order to look good in front of the Roblox community.
Yeah Ikr
Roblox is trying to make the metaverse instead of dealing with this lol
@@yeah-8492 this is exactly like putting out a fire with fire
@@Crazytrain2015 so was playing roblox on 15 july 2022 and didnt got tp to crosswood
well a lawsuit is waiting for them when they come back
Huge amount of respect to you for making such a great documentary on this situation. Roblox honestly needs to step up their moderation. A platform with mainly vulnerable and gullible children being this lazy and unsafe is scandalous. And if it's true that it's been around since 2016, and Roblox had not batted an eye while KNOWING that there are several hackers who will take advantage of any exploit or issue in the system is upsetting. I just hope that children were able to steer clear of this fate.
I am and I didnt get banned luckily
Thank you!
I really hope I am wrong that Roblox already knew this exploit since 2016
@@Crazytrain2015 same here mate. Did you hear about the oof sound changing btw?
@@funisinfinite. yep it's now DAH
@@Crazytrain2015 it sucks honestly. Sounds like a high pitched Minecraft villager sound
This guy’s videos are better than my school’s documentaries I swear. And, jokes aside, this is really well-made and informative. Keep up the good work!
Thank you
agreed
Yep
@@Crazytrain2015 This looks kind of like LEMMiNO's style. Did you take inspiration from him?
@@cookiesareswag157 I forgot about lemmino, he was a great guy making such awesome vids tbh, i always replay watching game facts and Cicada mystery
I actually got in the exploiter’s discord, and dang they were pure evil, me and a guy with a mao pfp took it upon ourselves to spam ping the server until we got banned, and we actually managed to convince people to join us or leave, our efforts were not in vain
Underrated comment.
you deserve the fucking world.
You are a fucking hero.
Based
@@Bowtiethesilly2023th you mean based?
5:32 im pretty sure he "meant" that the game would be better, 'trust' is a term used short for trust me.
"Please do NOT attack the people who are responsible for the incident"
Screw up, they didn't got no remorse for their actions, less they'll care if we harass them. They are psicopaths and a danger for all of us.
bro also your attitude is psychopath, very contradictory
Lets call them slurs
I don't get why people do these "don't attack these people" things when they DESERVE to be attacked.
totally agreed
harassment is never the way to go though
DWC is sure dangerous, but not eternal. They will get taken down for good one time, and I just hope nothing worse happens until then.
This makes Ruben Sim seem like an angel, which he kinda is as he didnt do the threat
They should start their next attack with doxxing you
You mean go to jail?
wut
Yeah seriously, Why would DWC even do this? Seriously, Their getting nothing from it but banning innocent kids, One of the members have said it was for “Showing roblox to make their platform and moderation better” But it’s just cruel, And that can cost roblox a lot of money, And it could get into serious legal terms.
i'd say this is by FAAAAR the most iconic hacking schandle ever, unless they somehow find a way to make it even more brutal
I mean it wasnt a hack it was a simple script that was already on roblox.
The aprils fools incident also occourred because there was a bad set script were the test sites could allow you to transfer things to main roblox like a roblox account token, thats how the disaster happened.
By a flaw of roblox.
@CryptedBusinessMan i didnt say roblox meant to make a disaster, im poiting out that most of the problems come out of flaws in Roblox.
Don't jinx it or someone's gonna start terminating people
@misterpogama bro the blame should be on Roblox they knew about it for 6 years
no wait dont jinx it LOL
To be honest, i have to admit, the concept of both scripts are genius ideas. Not in a good type of way, but it goes to show how you can really take advantage of whatever kind of knowledge you have(scripting) and use it against people for your own gain. It sounds scary too. I actually just heard about this incident a few days ago and I had no clue what it was when it first started happening.
This literally feels like a true crime documentary...this was pretty well made and quite informative as well!
I want to make Crosswoods have an actual campaign. That would be cool. A horror game in a crimson forest, where you have to shoot down random creatures, and rescue people from a B.A.N. virus.
It actually was a horror game before, and because of the fake one being made, Roblox also banned the real game
Stop dreaming it will never happen, I'm telling you this hacker is a clever hacker so the game looks so innocent
those random creatures that you shoot should be the people from the group of losers that call themselves "DWC"
@@kielleeditz bro it did.
@@salmn.516 when?
Unpopular opinion:
Sure, this was partially Roblox's fault, but they fixed it extremely fast and unbanned most accounts, something no one compliments them for.
However, when people were alerted and everyone was telling each other to not play, some people managed to either completely ignore the news, or simply join the random game/server a stranger asked them to join to.
So, please, explain. Who decided to join a game a stranger asked you to join without even telling you a bit about it?
Sure, there were many unfair bans, but a good number happened because people were careless.
Thanks for reading.
I mean bro if u join a game someone told u to and u get ur account banned its not like you have the fault, its not like the games that ban your account are found everyday and are common
@@Miguelcrack-bm3yq it's almost impossible to not see news about this.
besides, if someone tells me to join a random 0 player game without them joining first, I'd doubt them a bit.
@@penitente3337 yeah bro but for example i saw a clip from a kid that was streaming and he didnt knoe about the news because it was when it was just starting
Victim blaming, always nice
@@htg98 fr bro it doesnt even make sense
Great documentary!!
The reason why people say over 10,000 accounts were affected was because there were many games not only crosswoods thats could ban you!
Thank you!
Ah now I see why
My little sister got it banned because of this..I’m not mad I lost my account that I had TONS of robux on, I’m mad that my little sister can’t talk to her friends that moved away anymore. I’m not blaming Roblox for the friend thing, but seriously having to see a sad 7 year old child crying because she can’t play her favorite game anymore is just horrible… It makes me so mad the moderators don’t really take this seriously. Great documentary and hope to see you do this again soon!
have you appealed
@@alislam34 nope it’s a forever ban
@@wndyt-t5876 They should be able to unban though because it was an exploit from the fault of Roblox
@@alislam34 I sent an appeal and they refused, I agree.
Did she joined the game ?
6:42 "Ohh, it's a troll thing... Okay ! Oh-" this moment was sad as hell dude
We should harrass the guys that created the game
@@Account_abandoned-q7m harassment isn’t the way.
@@CoolGeox Nobody asked
@@Amis5474 bruv what the fuck are you on
@@Amis5474nice ragebait
When this was going very bad, I actually had to report this to the User Safety of ROBLOX
The email was sent somewhere in July 18th. I explained to them about what was happening, how it worked and waited for them to reply. The system replied in 3 minutes
What did they say
@@iichxrryluna they said that they will take action immediately
@@PanMannYT they didn’t take action imnediately
@@mateovaldes3762 k
This was a while ago, but what happened next?
I don't know if someone has said this already, but anyone who has played on the minecraft server 2b2t or watched a youtuber named FitMC, knows that the name "popbob" is associated with a very well known exploiter who was responsible for many griefs and chaos. they are also part a hacker group that includes a multitude of other exploiters. I fear they have possibly moved on from minecraft, and have plans for roblox in mind.
Oh god i remember that, if its the 2b2t popbob we might be screwed
That’s what I though.
Logically speaking it's very unlikely to be the popbob from 2b2t. Most likely some random person who thought it would be funny / cool to use the name.
Either way we are screwed lol the biggest issue is Roblox not fixing this issue even though they knew about it for multiple years
@@queenbean7071 I agree
It's a bunch of bloody wannabes, be serious!
I always was thinking “what if someone could hide the gamepass purchasing GUI?” And yet, here we are.
Without a doubt the worst incident to ever happen on Roblox. Worse than the Chipotle Incident, worse than April Fools 2012, and thank GOD I wasn't a victim. In fact, it's a MIRACLE I wasn't. There was this poorly made RPG game I enjoyed playing in my spare time, and guess what...
IT HAD KOHL'S ADMIN
Thankfully the game was immediately set to private when the incident broke loose.
this documentry feels like a real one and it's very professional, keep up the good work!
Wow thank you
I honestly hope it doesn't happen, but if a couple more hacking incidents slew in, use this in a second top ten scariest hacking incidents video.
i hope it does happen cus The company called ''Roblox'' Does kidnap childs.
we are revenging now
@@Eggdogified Roblox does what?
Just with no scary music or as usual, I can’t watch it without my doggo being nearby so she gives me a shield 😓
@@Eggdogified godzilla had a stroke and died while reading this
2:40 aint no way in hell that infamous 2b2t griefer popbob is behind this
I've watched FitMC before but is it the troll face guy with a suit?
hes just a skid wannabe of popbob. allegedly the exploit has been known since 2016. (using skid very loosely)
@@AAlgeriasyntax aint trying to be popbob, thats a insider of him. In my eyes synttax is a cruel person. Synttax is a player since 2018 and hes very known for scamming and stuff like this
I dont like how they did the crosswoods tactic to expose the horrible moderation of roblox but I am glad they focus on exposing roblox rather than screwing it up. Looking forward to this next plan
They said they did it for fun
very mid reason
@@craftxeni What does mid mean? Does it mean bad?
@@AwesomeYena sort of
@@AwesomeYena mediocre, middling, trash
@@AwesomeYena it means 5/10 they didnt even use it right
3:34
Popbob is also the name of an Infamous Player on a Minecraft Server called 2B2T, she was a pretty good Programmer but she went Offline years ago so I don't think its the same person despite the similarities
Here to promote this comment (although I just saw one hearted by the creator, but still important)
its ironic lol, popbob was the “1337 haker!!!” and theyre just mocking popbob, like saying “dream moment”!! whilst cheating
Bro this should be a Roblox Netflix documentary the intro had me hyped up nice work
Thanks :)
myth games in tiktok: "IF U JOIN THIS GAME, UR ACCOUNT WILL BE DELETED!!!!"
meanwhile Crosswoods: A brand new MMORPG
This is SO well made!
Kudos to you, Crazy!
Thank you :D
"This is not the end of DWC, but for now they are working in the dark, they will be back one day." Shiver me timbers, Im terrified. 😐
This incident, without a doubt, will go down as one of the biggest internet stunts in ROBLOX history.
_And I should keep an eye out of my children from situations like this._
I have a theory about this: the account behind the Crosswoods hacking was actually a person who just wanted to make their own version of crossroads called Crosswoods. Crosswoods would have had a very similar gameplay style, where people would fight each other forever until they get bored. While the player was making the game, a hacker decided to target a small up and coming roblox game creator and make their game ban players, and they targeted the creator of crosswoods. The game got turned into a blank roblox game. Btw I just got to the part about pop bob, and pop bob was actually the name of a famous Minecraft anarchy server hacker. He would troll players on the server before he quit after years of the server. With this information I think that popbob has moved away from Minecraft and started targeting the young main audience of roblox. He wanted to get easy money from them so he stole the game from the original creator, used the gamepads to get robux from players, dev ex it into money, then get the players banned so that they can't report the taken over account. We should all fear the Crosswoods hacker pop bob, as we don't know what he's going to strike us with next. I'd suggest that you research the history of the Minecraft anarchy server 2b2t about this man as he could bring the fate of roblox as we know it.
Very interesting theory. It makes a lot of sense
The oldest anarchy server on Roblox is a game that isn't even playable.
this doesnt make any sense at all and has no evidence to support it lol, the “popbob moment” was just an inside joke for exploiters lol
this clearly shows the dark secrets of the future of roblox, waiting to be unfold, one day.
Yep pretty scary right
yep pretty scary
thank you so much for making this and how much time and effort you have put into this.
You are so welcome :)
OKAY first I want to say WHAT AMAZING EDITING SKILLS YOU HAVE LIKE WHAAAT! And second, it honestly was horrible and I’m so glad I felt sick on the day everyone was getting banned and I didn’t stream. I honestly would have probably joined it because I didn’t know it existed
Thank you!
You are lucky that you felt sick when the incident happened. If you weren't feeling sick you may have gotten yourself falsely banned
@@Crazytrain2015 yeah
Roblox during this incident:😴
Roblox when some says hi:Account deleted
this is so interesting to me. it was so.. weird experiencing this a couple of years ago
I love how u told the story and this whole situation could of been prevented if roblox wasnt lazy
i love the editing in this video
but i didnt realise while i was celebrating my birthday this game banned a streamer and lots of other people im glad they have their accounts back
Thank you!
Wow it was your birthday on that day? Happy birthday man
What ClientERROR did was the absolute WORST thing anyone did on Roblox, even worse than Ellernate causing the April Fools Incident in 2012. He (ClientERROR) honestly deserved his ban because of the massive damage he did, even higher than Ellernate's. I hope everyone will be safe and that the same situation won't happen.
I respect Eller now, he mostly just trolled but did get a FEW people banned, while DWC terminated at least 10,000 accounts.
@@bobthebuilder6574 456 accounts*
ha, he deserves much more than a ban.
@@medium0sizedALT wdym like legal action? They can’t take legal action against that
@@mateovaldes3762 people are literally talking about Roblox suing DWC, ofc they can take legal action
I would like appreciate how you took your time to find about them and what they have done, the editing is great too. Great video :D
Damn the production level on this is insane, highly underrated, keep it up.
Hey, nice video you've made. I've been watching your channel for a long time and you've improved so much. Glad to come back to see you getting more fame!
Thank you :)
2016: haha shut up nerd
2022: bruh fr real they ignored our warning?
I didn’t even know this was going on, I was probably playing a game while this was happening. I had heard of crosswoods and how terrible it was but I thought it was because it allowed you to say bad words and people started getting their accounts banned because of it or something but no. Kinda crazy. Did roblox IP ban the dude behind this?
Yes according to RTC (I think it was them) the people responsible for the incident have been IP banned
@@Crazytrain2015 wonderful news
@@Crazytrain2015 should've gotten poison ban, since they could use vpns to make other accounts
an issue i have with this is LITERALLY EVERY COMMENT TALKS ABOUT POPBOB BEING IN 2B2T AND THAT THEY GONNA GO PLAY CROSSWOODS LIKE POST SOMETHING ORIGINAL
I usually hate documentary's because I don't learn anything or it's boring but this was fun to watch also they are actually back now they have released more games and are using that same twitch method to promote the link. A twitch streamer recently fell for this so they are back at again and roblox Is doing a much better job on banning them!
Very well made, thank you for the summary.
You are welcome :)
The people who joined crosswoods and got banned actually got unbanned
Honestly I love watching these types of documentary/summary incident vids you make :D. And yea this is a scary incident rn. Great vid!!
Popbob from the oldest anarchy server in Minecraft
Me: Ok 🗿
The FBI Agent: 👍
My Chinese Hacker: 👁👄👁
Would an account that had chat disabled and age under 13, would they still have been affected by the script? I'm curious as to see what's going on in the background of all of this since there are small slivers of different colors and shapes on the side so at least some assets were dumped in there and are being covered by this eerie red screen.
Sadly yes all players, even those under 13 could get affected by the incident
@@Crazytrain2015 I cant believe roblox isn’t going to do something abt it
@@jojodrawss no roblox only cares about rthro and money
@@mateovaldes3762 facts
@ sadly yes.
I'm just so glad I don't usually press the discover button because all the games out there are just plain boring to me and it helped me prevent stumbling upon Crosswoods.
It's crazy that u immediately get banned after leaving the game
Ikr
huge respect for you my man, this is some netflix docuseries type of editing, keep it up, I LOVE THE MUSIC CHOICE, really gets u curious, keep it up man.
Normal bans: Your account has been terminated.
Offensive item: hi
Reason: Harassment
Crosswoods bans: Your account has been terminated.
Offensive item: i love children
Reason: Child Endangerment
Wait, what? Why do they terminate your account because the hack caused you to say inappropriate things but normally (or commonly) they terminate you for saying hi? HOW???!!
10:40 it was not really a hack but just a roblox feature that has been abused
Given these facts you have gave out, you are amazing. This games show that how flawed this game really are and what the business can do. Seems like Roblox is a huge platform and game are counted so many.
Thank you
This- this right here, this incident, is just evidence to show how terrible Roblox security truly is.
This exploit has been around since 2016, and they did not think to patch it then. The only way to make Roblox fix something that is actually broken is to make it huge, make it way more of an issue. And that goes for almost every major change. We had to backlash.
Truly crazy to me how a billion dollar corporation can be endangered so quickly by a group of minor exploiters.
putting it here bc idk if the heart will get removed if I edit, but thanks for the heart Crazytrain! :D Keep doin whachya do!
@@skibedobappowbob6704 it actually will remove it.
@@skibedobappowbob6704 "truly crazy" no it's not, vtech got hacked by a minor, then nintendo by the same minor, then microsoft by the same minor, and to top it all off
NORTH KOREA GOT FUCKING HACKED BY THE SAME MINOR
@@JoeWithTheHoesBiden Same minor. I understand your point, (and that kid is persistent oh my g o d) but for something like that to hit Roblox is still crazy to me. Also, it was the same minor for all of those instances, making me think they were very educated in that field. This is a group of exploiting amateurs we are talking about.
@@skibedobappowbob6704 they're definitely not amateurs lmao
Crazytrain: Popbob-
FitMC: have i been summoned
I love how clarkt1000 was just chillin after he got banned
this is a really interesting documentary! i loved watching it, my heart goes out to everyone who was banned and i hope they got unbanned :)
Banned? No i think their account was permanently deleted though
@@lepury7110 Clark (one of the victims of the incident) got his account back a day after the incident came to an end. I think Roblox can ReActivate terminated accounts. But I could be wrong
Way to unban deleted
Step 1 joining crosswood or breaking the rule in roblox
Step 2 see your account deleted
Step 3 go to support select moderation and appeal account for content
Step 4 that it they will bring you account back from account deleted (has small chance 30 day) or maybe it work?
“With a big platform, comes bad moderation.”
Yes. This is true.
Very true
“Syn calls himself popbob.”
For those who don’t know popbob is a semi-inactive 2b2t player that is trans and was a notorious player on the server back a long time ago now he mostly plays on alts (we only know this because some randoms made fun of him for being trans and he blew up their base and wrote a sign with his current name) but is also involved in Nerds Inc. which is a group that literally tries to mess up the server on the daily and it’s social media most notably the subreddit was hacked by members of Nerds Inc and there was a massive server exploit that recently happened due to him.
I knew a guy named Syn on 2b2t when I used to play on the server and he was a semi-known pvper. Though most likely it isn’t the same person but it’s a possibility as I seen him stream Roblox in the past in some 2b2t discord servers.
This video actually made me feel scared. Great job on editing this video!
"Popbob" is in reference to a notorious griefer who used to play on the "oldest minecraft anarchy server", 2b2t.
There's a few videos by FitMC that tells the tale pretty well, just with a little hyperbole.
6:36
“leave the game”
“I’m fine”
And now... they're back..
imagine literally just caused a big mayhem and chaos within the community causing most people to lose their account
and then proceed to blame it all on the moderation system like "It's all their fault and totally not my ability to exploit the system"
I gonna need my medication after this
I don't know if anyone else made this connection but seeing that Synttax also goes by "PopBob" INSTANTLY made me think of the hacker popbob from 2b2t minecraft
I really love the music and editing tbh with you, and it’s crazy that it’s just like the chipotle incident but worse tbh with you. 😱
I'm glad that I have never even joined any of these games during my spare time, I protect my account how i want it to be and not let it be banned out of any Bannable Models, Names, and even Game Experiences that involves the same thing as the Crosswoods. Thank god I am safe.
You are a lucky person
9:35 THEY TELEPORTED TO SQUID GAMES‼‼
2:45 Wasn't Popbob that user from 2b2t?
popbobs gonna go down in history as the biggest troll on roblox
Thank you so much I was really confused abt this whole situation I only knew not to livestream any games or play crosswoods so thank you for clearing that up! also that editing is on point!
Just to further expand on if you didn’t really know what was happening, the chat service is sorta flawed. Resulting in it to allow the “exploiters” (more like a loophole tbh) to manipulate your client to chatting things unfiltered triggering that termination or ban. Most likely a loop as you joined to spam chat.
The real scary begins when someone makes a script that teleports you to the game.
Ill never play on public servers ever again
You should do a series like this with other hacking incidents, would be pretty cool
As someone who joined roblox in 2023, this is terrifying. I'm so glad this appeared on my youtube recommended as I now know not to trust suspicious games.
Great documentary, clean and perfect and also very informative. You should have seen in the discord people typing a big fat L to Syn
Yo! It's me in the video! Hahahaha.
2:30
okl
11:07
Hahahahahahhahaahhahahahahahahhahaha
Mr Waiter, let's mqke coca cola
@@sweetricecakeman8582 OK JESSER
It's really stupid that they have to do it like this. They could make people get banned for 3 days and it would already be a major issue.
Besides, I am doubting their motives were even to prove roblox has to bad moderation, but rather just trolling (because of the vid literally saying they did trolling)
To be honest, I agree that roblox' bad moderation should be proven to them and have them do something, but they just took it way too far.
Honestly, the entire incident just reminds you how terrible moderation is on Roblox
crazy thing is that this vulnerability has been around since 2015, and it was then people started using the backdoor maliciously.
It's cuz of experiential mode
I hope the crosswoods makers are happy i had a nightmare about my account getting banned forever from playing this game and i actually thought i got banned but luckily it was just a dream good job explaining btw
Me too lmao i had a nightmare that i was playing idk like the normal elevator then suddenly i saw the red crosswoods screen then i got the fake "possible raid warning" error, which kicked me out of the game and i got perma banned and the ban note said "you are not welcome to roblox" and the roblox app deleted itself from my computer. luckily that was just a dream but that was scary af
How to be safe, MUST DO.
1- Do not play any suspicious game, any game who has 1 player or 4 means it’s crosswood in a time. (Not all)
2- DISABLE CHAT. So that if you join crosswoods by accident you cannot say those weird things. *(HIGHLY RECOMMENDED, MUST DO!)*
3- DO NOT PLAY ANY ROBLOX LINK YOUR FRIENDS GIVE YOU.
4- Play only popular games.
Thank you. Have a nice day!
Do you mean “Disable Chat” for number 2?
Does disabling chat actually work?
Idk just be cautious when you see kohls admin, dont join crosswoods, and hope that your stream doesnt get nuked if you stream
Also i think using the new chat helps defend against it, but just because the protection is better, doesnt mean itll be permanently safe.
_There will eventually be someone who breaches the new chat system. Even if it takes 5 years to happen._
You do not need to do this right now, only if it happens again since now it is “patched.” Not really a patch just an IP ban
@@getjinxed101 yes.
Unfortunately some users have taken advantage of this situation to actually say really inappropriate things to minors and pass it off as one of the exploits.
Dang that is really messed up
00:08 "Please do NOT attack the people who are responsible for the incident"
If you mean the people covering the issue, fair. But if you mean the people who actually set up the ban games... Why?
Wow, 10 Years or a literal decade since the last biggest Hacking incident, yet, it upgraded so much.
6:26 Even more sad is that, when he got terminated, he actually cried