Erik S. Cassel[1] (December 16th, 1967 – February 11th, 2013), [aged 45]), known on the platform as erik.cassel, was a co-founder, administrator and former VP of Engineering on Roblox. He was fairly active on the website but rarely visited any experiences. Erik passed away at the age of 45 on February 11th, 2013.
Death
On February 11th, 2013, the Roblox staff stated on the Roblox Twitter account that Erik Cassel had "lost his fight with cancer" earlier in the day at the age of 45.[2][3] Keith confirmed it in the late hours in a forum post.[4] A blog post was then created later in the day.[5]
Memorial
On February 12th, 2013, hundreds of users gathered in the Erik Cassel Memorial[6] to mourn the death of Erik Cassel. Many of these people dressed up as Erik Cassel's character to pay tribute to him. On February 15th, 2013, Roblox created a classic shirt named "Official Erik Shirt" in memory of Erik.cassel. The shirt went off sale 8 days later. Also in memory of Erik Cassel, Roblox changed the name of a hat formerly known as "Well Worn Hat" to "Erik Cassel's Hat" and put it on-sale for a short time. Roblox then changed the two items' descriptions to the following:
- "To honor our co-founder Erik Cassel, Roblox will make a substantial contribution to cancer research in Erik's name. Thank you to everyone for your respect and support."
Unknown activity
In May 2014, erik.cassel was online, shocking many users. Some said that he was hacked by an unknown user, and others said his younger brother or his sons were using his account. His kids using the account is generally the accepted explanation. On October 8th, 2023, the account was seen online again, due to a glitch that made more old accounts being seen as online.
Trivia
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- His children's Roblox usernames are stunshocker and redustian.
- He is one of the few well known users to have unexpectedly died while in the Roblox community.
- His account owns a game badge formerly named Prove it, which is now content deleted, which was created on February 3, 2016.
- This badge was given to many popular users due to a feature where you could plant badges into accounts if you had sufficient permission. Maximum_ADHD
eventually added 4 badges when lined up appeared to spell "John Doe is not a hacker you goofballs." Maximum_ADHD is a confirmed intern, and the Prove it badge is on the accounts of John/Jane Doe, Telamon, and many other users.
- This badge was given to many popular users due to a feature where you could plant badges into accounts if you had sufficient permission. Maximum_ADHD
- It is believed that to remember Erik, Roblox staff decided to keep the administrator badge on his account after his death.
- Erik.cassel has a Series 1 Roblox toy modeled after his avatar.
- Oddly, his avatar, along with several other former Roblox staff members, was at some point forcibly updated to R15 and the animated smile.
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References
- ↑ https://patents.google.com/?inventor=Erik+S.+Cassel
- ↑ https://twitter.com/Roblox/status/302597973156716544
- ↑ https://twitter.com/Roblox/status/301417442666745856
- ↑ https://archive.froast.io/forum/89090761#89090761
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20220626013528/https://blog.roblox.com/2013/02/in-memory-of-erik-cassel/
- ↑ https://www.roblox.com/games/106513515/Erik-Cassel-Memorial
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