They have also built spaces to hang out and role-play different characters and scenarios—rushing a sorority, policing Washington, DC. Ferguson was attracted to the more organized, militaristic role-plays. Now 23, he asked that I refer to him only by his online name.
Growing up, he says, he was an annoying kid. He was checked out of school, had no hobbies or goals or friends. In that early group he was in with Malcolm—a role-play based on the sci-fi military game Halo —Ferguson proved his loyalty, drill after drill, lap after lap.
You strive to do the best. You have to constantly check up to their standards. They funneled new followers into their own role-plays—one based on Star Wars , where they were the Sith; another based on Vietnam, where they were the Americans; and one based on World War II, where they were the Nazis.
He built a German village where they could host reenactments—capture the flag, but with guns and SS uniforms. Then it became cruelty. He had finally found his community and established some authority within it. At the same time, he believed that Malcolm was attracted to contrarianism, not out-and-out fascism.
Inspired, he told Ferguson they would be swapping their uniforms for togas. Roblox is no longer the lightly policed sandbox it once was. Tens of millions of people play the game daily, thanks in part to a recent pandemic surge.
Three former members of the Senate and People of Rome say the game still has a problem with far-right extremists. They have since been taken down. And there are still Nazi role-plays. One, called Innsbruck Border Simulator, received more than a million visits between mid and late May or early June of this year, when—not long after I asked a question about it— Roblox removed it. But how do these communities shape who young players become? Call of Duty was going to make them feral warhounds.
All of these things do seem to make a cocktail that would be prime for people to recruit to extreme causes. But whether it does or not is a totally different question. Because nobody knows. Ferguson, who today claims he is penitent for his role in the Senate and People of Rome, says he wants people to know about it, to make sense of it, to learn something, and hopefully, eventually, make it stop. They just have to get it first. Earlier this year, Ferguson took me to Rome.
Or rather, he took me to a dusty, far-flung Roman outpost called Parthia, which, for complex reasons involving a catfish and some stolen source code, is the most Malcolm ever got around to building. Ferguson was pacing toward me in a cowboy hat with antlers, and I hopped over a line of wooden looms to meet him.
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