User:RollwithRaven/March 18th 2017 ROBLOX Rumor

The March 18th 2017 ROBLOX Rumor was a Rumor created by Numerous Youtuber's in order to gain attention. The rumor stated that on March 18th 2017, An inactive user by the name of John Doe would hack ROBLOX on the Respective date. The Hackings never happened and on March 21th 2017 ROBLOX wrote a blog addressing the Rumors and informing everyone about the Real Backstory of John Doe.

Summary
Sometime before March, A rumor spread that John Doe was going to hack ROBLOX. The Date 18th may have been possibly related to Admin's ID number which was 18.

Forums Exploded with people afraid of the False incident that was going to occur, Many people stopped playing ROBLOX after the Rumor happened. And Player numbers decreased significantly especially on March 18th.

Soon many Considerate people started providing evidence that the Rumor was false and was not going to happen. Such as it is impossible to hack a ROBLOX Account etc. But despite these the Rumor was still believed by many ROBLOXIANS Especially those that were very new to the Game.

When the Rumor happened some users thought that Hackers of the 2012 April Fools hack would come back on the Day. While others thought jaredvaldez2 would hack roblox despite him saying he quit ROBLOX forever.