An online safety advocate demonstrated how quickly predators can find children on a popular online game during Monday’s episode of “The Shawn Ryan Show.”
Activists targeting pedophiles have risen in popularity in recent years, gaining both huge followings online and also becoming the stars of reality shows like Investigation Discovery’s “Undercover Underage.” Schlep, an online activist whose Twitter bio says he’s contributed to six arrests and two convictions for online exploitation in the game “Roblox,” at one point demonstrated to host Shawn Ryan during the interview how quickly a predator could find a potential victim.
Roblox is an online gaming site with at least 144 million users who either play games or create them, according to its official website. The company is facing lawsuits from Texas and Louisiana alleging it is failing to protect children from being exploited.
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Someone Tried to Get Freaky With Our Decoy in Roblox. 🤯
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— Shawn Ryan Show (@ShawnRyanShow) March 2, 2026
In one clip posted on “The Shawn Ryan Show” X account, a user known as “aviationlover403” asked the online decoy, “U frky [You freaky]?” via a direct message almost immediately after connecting.
“Oh, you freaky, do you see that?” Schlep asked Ryan as they went through a Roblox game that they compared to the dating app “Tinder,” who responded, “Are you fucking serious, dude? Are you fucking serious?”
“Just say yes and see what he wants to do,” Schlep instructed the decoy.
The clip then showed another interaction, this time with a user called “Aimbot_errer3,” who asked the same question almost instantly.
“Holy shit!” Ryan exclaimed as the chat showed the user asking the decoy if he had TikTok, “Are you fucking kidding me, dude?”
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“This is literally like Tinder, and when you match someone you get a private chat with them. That was like five seconds and someone was already trying to message and move the conversation off-platform. They’re probably going to try to get us on Snapchat or Discord. This is what… pic.twitter.com/TpSHNARjGI
Do you believe online games like Roblox are safe for children?— Shawn Ryan (@ShawnRyan762) March 2, 2026
Another clip posted by Ryan showed other interactions where the decoy was asked if they were “freaky” within seconds of connecting.
At the start of the interview, Schlep described how he had been exploited online while playing Roblox at the age of 12, leading to a suicide attempt at the age of 15. Schlep told Ryan how the abuser not only discussed his relationship with a 15-year-old girl, but also made Schlep watch a video of the mass shooting in Christchurch, New Zealand, insisting that Schlep activate the screenshare to prove he was watching the gory content.
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“This is Sandy Hook Elementary, and you can see the names of the victims above their heads in the game. This game is you shoot through the window like the shooter did and move through the classrooms where innocent children were… They have the actual room recreated and the… pic.twitter.com/OliBGSICMg
— Shawn Ryan (@ShawnRyan762) March 2, 2026
During another clip that previewed the interview, Schlep walked Ryan through a re-enactment of the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting.
“Holy shit, this is Sandy Hook Elementary School,” Ryan said as the decoy user played the game, then asking Schlep, “You said nine-year-olds [can play this game]? But I thought we just signed something saying we’re 13.”
“This experience was uploaded on February 5 and removed on February 6 within five minutes of the initial report of inappropriate content,” Roblox said through a statement via their newsroom account on X. “Our data shows that the few users who accessed the experience did not find it through organic discovery. We reported all parties involved in the creation and coordination of this experience to law enforcement.”
Roblox CEO and founder David Baszucki also took to X in response to clips from the interview that were posted.
“We have a strict zero-tolerance policy for re-enacting any real-world tragic event on Roblox. This includes acts of terror and school shootings,” Baszucki claimed. “Such experiences directly violate our community standards and we strive to block them before they are even published. That said, a handful of bad actors do try to create these experiences to share with their friends and on social media. Although we are not perfect, we work hard to moderate and remove them as quickly as possible.”
A spokesperson for Roblox directed the Daily Caller News Foundation to Baszucki’s comments when reached for comment and also said that the Tinder game mentioned in the podcast had been removed.
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