On Tuesday, Roblox—the gaming platform popular with Gen Z and Gen Alpha —saw its stock take a dive. Roblox stock fell 9.4% in early trading, even as it’s already dropped by 15% this year.

Hindenburg agrues that Roblox may be big but is not as high-growth as it appears. Roblox’s stock is down about 3.5 percent today, so investors don’t seem terribly concerned thus far.

Roblox has misled investors by conflating the number of "people" using its platform with its daily active user counts, up to 30% or so of which could actually be bots, Hindenburg alleges, citing a ...

Thus, Roblox is claimed to have an actual player count it uses for internal business decisions, with "alt" and bot accounts removed (a correction process it refers to as its numbers being "de ...

Roblox already has dumb AI options with specific mini-games, and increased bot support could help create new innovative games. The games platform had over 43 million daily active users as of Q2 2021.