Spawnism: When a Roblox Respawn Symbol Becomes a Real-World Cult

Roblox was supposed to be a digital playground: kids building castles, running pizza shops, or designing the next viral obby course. Instead, it’s also managed to spawn something darker, literally. Enter Spawnism: a so-called religion where children are being lured into believing the game’s respawn symbol is a god. Yes, in 2025, kids are carving video game icons into their skin to secure eternal life, because nothing says “future of the metaverse” like ritualistic self-harm over a PNG.

How It Started (and How It Went Horribly Wrong)

Spawnism began as harmless lore inside Forsaken, a Roblox horror game. Players encountered a cult that worshipped “The Spawn”, a digital promise of a second life. The idea was meant to add creepy flavour to the game’s storyline. What wasn’t intended was for real children to take it literally, turning fiction into a cult. Reports show kids carving the spawn symbol into their skin, encouraged by online predators hiding behind avatars and Discord servers.

Grooming, Exploitation, and the Com Network

Predators have latched onto this “religion” through a shadowy group known as the Com Network. They coerce children into dangerous rituals, recording or sharing images as blackmail to push them further. It’s an industrialised version of grooming, gamified, masked by Roblox’s cheery Lego-like veneer, and aided by lax moderation. Some victims have even been driven to suicide.

The Dystopian Irony

Parents thought Roblox was safe because it looks like Minecraft with shinier graphics. In reality, it’s closer to Lord of the Flies with a chat box. Kids log in to roleplay as cashiers at Pizza Place, only to find themselves targeted by adults with more free Robux than dignity. And while Zuckerberg’s metaverse flops around with dodgy avatars, Roblox has already built one, complete with cults, predators, and unregulated chaos.

Why It Matters

This isn’t just a freak corner of the internet, it’s a glimpse of our digital future. Children raised on platforms where fiction becomes belief, predators weaponise play, and corporations quietly count the profits. If Spawnism is the metaverse’s training ground, then we’re heading for a future where utopia collapses into dystopia faster than you can say “respawn.”

Closing Thought

The Spawn symbol was meant to represent second chances. Instead, it’s showing us what happens when the metaverse hands our kids over to predators before we’ve even figured out how to regulate TikTok. The only people truly respawning here are the abusers, cycling through platforms, servers, and loopholes, while the rest of us are left asking how a children’s game became the digital front line of exploitation.