roblox is taking over the world you may be thinking roblox that's just a video game for kids right but in a couple of years we might actually be spending more time in roblox than we do in real life going to school inside roblox having business meetings going to the doctor and straight up doing most of our day-to-day activities in roblox or at least that's what the roblox developers are hoping now a lot of you may already know what roblox actually is but i'm sure many of you are yet unfamiliar with it so in this video i'm going to try and balance a couple of different things one do a brief history of how roblox came to garner over NUMBER_TOKEN million monthly active users kind of on the back of child labor but we'll get to that in a second and two discuss the larger phenomenon of the so-called metaverse and why companies like facebook decentraland and roblox themselves are rushing to become the global standard for this upcoming technological paradigm shift i'm sorry am i disturbing you wilfer let me see what have you got there mobile premier league huh well it looks like you're having fun oh shoot and you're earning money for the games you're winning that's right mobile premier league is sponsoring this video and here's why you should probably go check them out mpl is a gaming app where you can play games like pool solitaire fruit chop to name a few based on your skill level you get matched up with similar players and you can even compete in multiplayer tournaments or head-to-head battles the games themselves are fun on their own but on top of that you can actually earn cash for every game that you win it's easy to withdraw your winnings either by bank transfer or paypal it's super convenient and if you download the mpl app right now you get a five dollar signup bonus if you use my custom link below you essentially get five dollars for free mpl is free to download and it's available for ios on the app store and on the mpl website for android so head on over to download the app using my custom link on screen right now and in the description and let me know in the comments what's your favorite game to play on the app thanks to mobile premier league for sponsoring us now let's get back into the video the concept for roblox actually originated in NUMBER_TOKEN. long before the actual launch david bazuki and eric cassell had been working for several years on this project which was initially titled dyna blocks the idea behind it was to have a sort of virtual playground that you could entirely customize yourself both visually as well as functionally in NUMBER_TOKEN however they decided to change the name from dynablocks to roblox to have it be more memorable and in NUMBER_TOKEN they launched the platform to the public for the first time what was unique about roblox was that it wasn't a video game per se it was a toolkit that allowed anyone with time on their hands to create their own game nowadays referred to as a so-called experience limited only by their imagination and it was a massive success whether people joined to build a game or to play one of the infinite amounts of games already available roblox continues to grow in popularity at a mind-numbing rate just in NUMBER_TOKEN alone almost NUMBER_TOKEN million accounts were created many of them may well be alternate accounts but
START_SPONSOR_TOKEN shift i'm sorry am i disturbing you wilfer let me see what have you got there mobile premier league huh well it looks like you're having fun oh shoot and you're earning money for the games you're winning that's right mobile premier league is sponsoring this video and here's why you should probably go check them out mpl is a gaming app where you can play games like pool solitaire fruit chop to name a few based on your skill level you get matched up with similar players and you can even compete in multiplayer tournaments or head-to-head battles the games themselves are fun on their own but on top of that you can actually earn cash for every game that you win it's easy to withdraw your winnings either by bank transfer or paypal it's super convenient and if you download the mpl app right now you get a five dollar signup bonus if you use my custom link below you essentially get five dollars for free mpl is free to download and it's available for ios on the app store and on the mpl website for android so head on over to download the app using my custom link on screen right now and in the description and let me know in the comments what's your favorite game to play on the app thanks to mobile premier league for sponsoring us now let's get back into the video END_SPONSOR_TOKEN