Every time you think there’s no lower depth for Roblox to reach, the company fetches its shovels. The people who described the “pedophile hellscape” of their product as “an opportunity,” and who recently hired a new “parent advocate” who proceeded to immediately blame all the game’s horrendous failings on parents, have now attempted to get a wrongful death case thrown out of court by arguing that a 13-year-old who died by suicide had signed away her rights to sue when she agreed to the app’s terms and conditions at eight years old.
Reported by the Courier Journal, via The Gamer, Roblox‘s lawyers are arguing that because Audree Heine clicked the “Agree” box on the application’s impenetrable terms and conditions when she was just eight years old, she had waived her right to ever sue the company, and so a wrongful death lawsuit brought by her mother should be dismissed without a trial. In fact, the multi-billion-dollar company argues, she waived those rights a total of 28 times. How? “By creating her Roblox account, by accepting updates to Roblox’s Terms (six times), by using and redeeming Roblox gift cards (twice), and by purchasing Roblox’s virtual currency on Roblox (19 times).” Which is to say the small child, like countless millions of others, used Roblox at all.
The lawsuit was filed by Audree’s mother, Jaimee Seitz, in October 2025, and claimed that Roblox had exposed her daughter to “harmful and violent influences” despite Seitz having established parental controls over the account. To maintain relationships with other Roblox players, Heine created accounts on Discord and TikTok (which are also being sued in the lawsuit and have also called for a dismissal), where she became embroiled in a peculiar online subculture focused on the teens who killed students in 1999’s Columbine High School attack. This was all detailed in her diary, where she also wrote about the bullying she was facing in school and her struggles with her mental health.
In their motion to compel arbitration, Roblox’s lawyers wrote, “Roblox made the Terms plain and Audree repeatedly manifested her assent, as courts have routinely held in examining similar agreements as the one at issue here.”
‘Insulting’
Whether Roblox, or indeed Discord and TikTok (which both point out that, unlike on Roblox, a person must be 13 to legally create an account on those platforms) are in any way responsible for the tragic situation is clearly not established. That’s the point of a trial. The merits of this particular case are not the issue. The issue here is the callous and outlandish nature of Roblox’s reasoning. To claim an 8-year-old is making a legally informed decision with regards to their arbitration rights when she clicks the “Agree” box on Roblox’s notoriously lackluster sign-up procedure (at the time of Heine’s account creation, children as young as her didn’t even need to have an email address or phone number to create an account, as there was no authentication process at all), is farcical. Especially considering that time after time, adult court cases depending upon the legalese buried in the vast screed of terms and conditions text fail to stand the test of trial.
“She was a child,” said her mother. “She didn’t understand arbitration. She didn’t understand contracts. She didn’t understand what the little box could mean years later. But now they want a court to treat that click as though an 8-year-old knowingly negotiated away her right to have these issues heard. It’s insulting.”
Roblox is currently facing 150 cases alleging that children have been harmed as a result of using the software, and the U.S. Senate is now conducting a bipartisan investigation into the company regarding its child safety practices. Over the last couple of years, Roblox has finally begun to implement the most rudimentary attempts to offer any protection at all for children, and tellingly, a recent move to direct fewer young children toward the most viral games on the platform wiped $9 billion from the company’s value in a single day.
