One of the most criticized social groups to spawn from the game is its unauthorized online dating community, where players attempt to court real-life romantic relationships and imitate sexual scenarios on what is intended to be a family-friendly online game. Due to oversights, corporate corruption, and neglected enforcement of the game's age verification system, many predatory meetings and interactions between adults and underaged children or teenagers have occurred through Roblox both in and outside this community (including an incident involving a popular sub-game developer who was wanted by the FBI in the United States). These incidents have received increased news coverage since the 2010s, and have resulted in state and federal lawsuits in the US targeting the game's ineffective enforcement of its child safety policies. While dating as a whole is currently forbidden in the game's Community Standards, Roblox CEO David Baszucki expressed public interest in having officially-supported dating games and chatrooms for verified adult users later down the line (something he also admitted to being reprimanded by the game's safety team for) as part of a general initiative to retain its original aging playerbase. Chief product officer Manuel Bronstein described it as a need to "age up, [and] grow internationally". Roblox's official TikTok account also promoted this by posting fictionalized meet-up videos and posting comments supporting innocent adult-to-adult interactions. When pressed about child safety on the website in 2025, Baszucki responded: