so the Roblox Innovation Awards situation right now is crazy we've got so much drama we've got developers and creators being attacked we've got games bribing the votes and trying to rig the votes in their favor and we've got people mad at me for something I didn't even do let's just get on into it cuz there's a lot to talk about so of course by now you probably know all about the Roblox Innovation Awards 2024 the voting Hub here how it works how you can vote real quick though if you don't know what the Roblox innovation awards are if you've been living under a rock here's a trailer for the previous year's Innovation Awards essentially it's a yearly award show think of it like the Oscars or the Emy where you guys in Roblox gets to pick the best games best creators best developers of the year and then they get awarded they get an award a bloxy and of course with big Community Roblox events featuring all the big games all the big creators and developers you're bound to get a little bit of drama there always is a little bit but this year there's a lot now let me hop into the Innovation Awards here and explain what in the world's going on I'm going to break it down for you now hopefully by now you've had a chance to visit the awards Hub this is what it looks like right here this is where you do all the voting and this is actually where the drama begins because there's two types of voting there's the RDC voting which is where you vote for People's Choice best new experience best ugc Creator best video star best branded experience Etc but then there's also this other category called predictions voting and it says down here predict who will win each category and earn points after voting has ended basically every day you get to choose between four different games for each category and you get to predict which one is going to win so like for example right now we have the best racing category and you get to pick one of these four games car crushers 2 car dealership Tycoon Drive world driving Empire and this is where the drama kind of really begins because this entire voting thing is so weird so like if you don't know how it works if you've never voted in the predictions voting before basically you choose one of the games I'm just going to choose I don't know car crushers two and it says confirm vote you'll earn 10 points for voting no matter who wins but if you vote for the winner if you vote for the correct one the one who eventually ends up winning then you get more points right so I'm just going to go and vote I'm going to click yes and it looks like the one I voted for is actually winning with 66,000 votes the runner up is driving Empire with 52,000 right which means I just got 10 points for voting but if I get it right if the one I voted for ends up winning then I'll get even more points they might be asking well what do the points do why do the points even matter who cares well you actually get a bunch of free stuff for the points like these items right here you can claim free ugc items based on the amount of points that you have so like I have 47 points right now I can I can I can I can get that right there so I just I just got the first one I can't get anything else cuz I don't I don't have enough points and this is this is where things get weird because Roblox is actively discouraging you for voting for who you want to win and they're encouraging you to vote for the most popular choice because if you vote wrong well you ain't getting those free items you have to vote right to get the free items like what what kind of voting system is that not to mention why does it literally show the total vote count for each game you can just see which one's winning and then just vote for the one that's winning like why does it show the total vote count like that's crazy you shouldn't do that that that's obviously going to influence how people vote people are just going to end up voting for the one with the most votes like like Roblox what do you thinking but that's nothing compared to this so each day Roblox tweets out and they're like here's the categories you can vote on today so like yesterday for example we had best strategy game anime Defenders Dusty trip Tower Defense simulator strongest Battleground two of these games aren't even strategy games just just right off the bat of Dusty trip and strongest Battlegrounds are not strategy games sure there's strategy involved in the games but by modern video game definitions Dusty trip and strongest Battlegrounds are not strategy games strategy games are like Starcraft like League of Legends could be considered a strategy game civilization is a strategy game shoot Balloon Tower Defense could be considered a strategy game strongest Battlegrounds is a fighting game by all definitions of modern video game genres strongest Battlegrounds is a fighting game why is it in the best strategy category a Dusty trip that's not a strategy game why is it in the best strategy category but anyway what's been happening is every day four new games will get nominated and you guys get to vote each and every day and unfortunately some developers have been trying to rig the vote a little bit and by some I mean almost every developer I've seen so like for example the strongest Battlegrounds in their Discord server the Developers sent out a message saying hey if we win we're going to update the game faster therefore please vote for us blog fruits even did the exact same thing look at this message right here they said if you vote for us not only are you going to receive a new title in the game but we're going to post a new leak for the new update if we win but only if we win souls RNG did the exact same thing if we win you guys will get special rewards here's what you're going to get if we win I mean the list goes on dress him press did it piggy did it doors did it every everyone's been doing it so like I can't really call out one specific game for trying to bribe votes because literally every game's been doing it and personally I don't really think that that should be allowed simply because if you tell your audience or your player base hey we're going to give you a brand new update the thing you've been waiting for we're going to give it to you but only if we win well then what's going to happen well the game with the most players is automatically going to win and that's essentially what's been happening the game games with the most players ends up winning automatically simply because they're encouraged to vote encouraged to vote to get that new update or to get that new skin or get that new title or whatever it may be it's kind of like if I tell everyone hey if you vote for me for video star of the year I'm going to give everyone 1 million Robux if you if you vote for me I will give you 1 million Robux go vote for me I'll give you a million Robo go do it of course everyone would vote for me then right of course why wouldn't they I I feel like this kind of stuff shouldn't be allowed just across the board I feel like no one should be able to do this like bribing votes that's kind of bad right and so now what's been happening is you have all these big games with massive player bases saying hey if we win you're going to get that new update and well what happens well this game or that game they don't win and now those players aren't getting that update and now those players are really really mad so like for example catalog Avatar Creator here they won best fashion they beat dress pressed they beat fashion famous they beat Royal High which means all those dressed in pressed players aren't getting that update the developers promised right maybe they'll still do it I don't know but basically the developers promised some cool things if they won they didn't win so now they're not getting it and so now munib who's the developer of catalog avatar creator has been getting a bunch of hate a bunch of death threats this guy tweeted and said I'm truly disappointed right now this year's Innovation Awards is getting out of hand people have started to send hate and death threats to maniv for winning catalog Avatar Creator after having the deal with Dr and press's rigging attempt dress and press like I said did promise free stuff in the game here's a screenshot it said if you vote for dress in press if we win we're going to release a new code or maybe two and so now those dressed in press players aren't getting that code now the dressed in press team did of course make an announcement most of these games have saying hey don't send hate or anything to any games that won it's all fair game right it's all fair and square but unfortunately that's not really what's been happening this tweet here went viral it's got um 23,000 likes 1.3 million views I had to censor a lot of this as you can see you can imagine what words are behind this it says hashtag all of you all of you ugly hashtag hashtags who don't want a girl game to win each and every one of you who voted for this hash game will begin to cough in 10 minutes # catalog Avatar Creator # you man and # crecraft 2 now I saw this and I was like what did I do why you coming at me it's not my fault catalog Avatar Creator beat Dr press I literally voted for Dr press I'm not joking I voted for dress to impress I tweeted out and I said I voted for dress to impress lamu and it's true out of all these games right here I think dress impr press has been the most impressive fashion game in the past year why you coming at me I'm on your side girly I say girly but they they're they're probably like a 50-year-old man or something let's just be real anyway it's so funny cuz they tweeted and uh in their bio it says spreading positivity one day at a time that's a that's a whole lot of positivity you got there viie and then they tweeted this image here it's pretty it's funny I'm not going to lie it's actually really funny now dress in press and catalog Avatar Creator they're not the only games with beef right now we also got doors and we got piggy you see piggy said hey if we win the best horror category we're going to give you a brand new update and un fortunately they didn't win they had 230,000 votes doors over here had uh almost actually I think over doubled at 500,000 votes and so a bunch of piggy players are mad at dors saying dors hasn't updated in Forever Piggy's been doing a bunch of cool stuff piggy should win n dor should win piggy fell off piggy hasn't been relevant for years just back and forth back and forth back and forth and like I said at the beginning of the video there's always going to be drama right every player has their favorite game every player has their favorite Creator developer that they want to win and if they don't win it's it's like your favorite team losing the Super Bowl you're going to be upset about it but because a lot of these games are bribing I use that term loosely or attempting to bribe their player base right with free stuff like hey if we win we're going to give you all this free stuff and then they don't win well sorry you're not getting all that free stuff now now the players are mad because they wanted the free stuff and now they ain't getting it right and so now you've just got a bunch of angry eight-year-olds really mad because their favorite game didn't win and well today it comes down to the best racing game car dealership Tycoon driving Empire Drive world car crushers 2 I have no idea what's going on this is probably one of the most chaotic things in the Roblox Community ever everything's on fire it's fantastic let me know your thoughts down below the Roblox Innovation awards has been quite the mess this year I'll see you guys next time