In May, the FBI put out an urgent warning about a satanic online network called “764.” One of their main hunting grounds? A video game that millions of American children log into daily: Roblox.
Roblox is the number one platform in the global gaming sector. Accessible on any phone, computer or gaming console, the platform boasts over 111.8 million daily users worldwide, and its monthly users include half of all American children under the age of 16.
The platform works like Minecraft, YouTube, and a chat app all rolled into one. Users build an avatar and can choose from thousands of user-generated games to play or virtual spaces to enter.
Roblox’s interface is designed for young children to navigate intuitively. Able to sign up in seconds with their birthday, a username, and a password, kids have instant access to a live chat, private messaging, and a marketplace that uses real money. The platform is essentially an online playground where children can wander around and interact with players from around the world.
It’s not hard to picture, then, how child predators began to take advantage of the platform. In 2019, 675 cases of child exploitation had been reported to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) in the United States. By 2024, that number had grown to 24,500 reports of child exploitation.
The troubling reality is that the online platforms most popular with children are also the least understood by parents and lawmakers. Our youngest generations have become test subjects for the newest technology.
We’ve placed powerful technology in the hands of children—technology that’s training them faster than parents can supervise or lawmakers can regulate.
But kids on Roblox are not just up against addictive emerging technology or basic stranger danger.
Earlier this month, the state of Louisiana sued Roblox over allegations that it facilitates the distribution of child sexual abuse material. The lawsuit states that the platform is fraught with explicit and crude games—like “Escape from Epstein Island” or “Diddy Party,” games that the lawsuit claims were filled with “simulated sexual activity such as child gang rape.”
Even more horrifying, multiple parents in California and Iowa allege that their children were groomed on Roblox, sent information in the private chat that included their personal addresses, eventually being kidnaped and sexually abused.
There is also a targeted spiritual threat. Roblox can become the breeding ground for interactions between our children and some of the most evil and satanic groups of predators.
Sound like a conspiracy? Think again.
In May, the FBI put out an urgent message to parents, warning them of a horrifying network they call “the number one digital threat against kids.” That network is “764.”
A type of extremists called “accelerationists,” 764 and similar groups operate as decentralized online communities that, according to the U.S. Department of Justice, promote social unrest, exploitation of vulnerable populations, violent extremism, and the downfall of the current world order.
Their primary hunting ground? Unsupervised children online.
Sure, getting kids to play pornographic games and divulge personal information like their addresses certainly helps groom and blackmail children, but advanced predators with goals like the “downfall of the current world order” aim to quickly get vulnerable children off Roblox and onto another messaging platform like Snapchat, Telegram, or Discord, where they can be used for disturbing schemes.
There, the predators’ coercive tactics are terrifying; in mere minutes they begin to lure children into self-induced satanic ritual abuse and exploitation.
On messaging platforms, networks like 764 expose children to additional violent or pornographic content, then demand videos or photos of children copying the behavior. Two American citizens were arrested in April and charged by the DOJ for allegedly directing children to produce video footage of “self-mutilation, online and in-person sexual acts, harm to animals, sexual exploitation of siblings and others, acts of violence, threats of violence, suicide, and murder.”
As of May, the FBI has opened 250 investigations into 764 and has at least one open investigation in every one of its 55 field offices across the country.
The FBI warns that 764 and similar groups use tactics such as threatening to swat (make false emergency calls to the police in attempt to bring a SWAT team to the child’s home) or dox (publish personal information such as a phone number or address on the internet) the children, coercing kids to produce Child Sexual Abuse Material or videos depicting self-harm and violence against animals.
Groups like 764 are lurking in the dark shadows of games on Roblox, and they thrive on the unawareness of millions of Americans who believe that satanic, exploitative groups are mere conspiracy theories.
But the facts don’t lie. The FBI’s warning from May can’t be overlooked.
As adults, we have a duty to stay informed with the latest information from law enforcement and take steps to protect the children in our spheres of influence.
Children across America—the youngest and most vulnerable in our society—are depending on grown-ups to pay attention, push back, and expose the works of darkness.
At Concerned Women for America, we want to ensure you have the most up-to-date information when it comes to protecting the children in your life from dangers online. Find us on social media or to get plugged in to a Prayer/Action Chapter near you, visit concernedwomen.org/field.
