Shedletsky

Current
Classic
Roblox Toy

Former administrator

Name

John James Shedletsky, III

Former position

Creative Director

Activity

Active

Month joined

June 2006

Membership

Premium

VisitsA player's visits indicates the amount of joins on their public experiences (shown on their profile), and does not include visits obtained from closed or deleted experiences.

Around 59,170,000

Page last updated on October 8, 2024

John James Shedletsky, III,^[1] known on Roblox as Shedletsky and formerly as Telamon, is a famous Roblox user who was the former Creative Director at Roblox from 2006 until 2014.^[2] He was the fourth engineer hired at Roblox.^[3] He resigned from his full-time position in May 2014 in order to pursue establishing a new business venture, although he continues to work on an as-needed basis with the corporation.^[4]

While employed at Roblox, he created games such as Nuke The Whales and Sword Fight on the Heights IV, and he created the LOL group. He has also patented some systems which have since been unique to Roblox. Shedletsky has a YouTube channel which is known for uploading many trailers of Roblox during its early years. Nowadays, Shedletsky is mainly active on Twitter and returns to the site from time to time. He is also known to have two alternate accounts that have a vast trove of limited items stored on them; EarlGrey and SonOfSevenless, both accounts' values combined make Shedletsky the richest user on Roblox (richer than the Roblox account).

ID Swap with Telamon[]

Prior to the username change feature being released, John changed his name by switching the user IDs between Shedletsky and Telamon. By doing this, he was able to keep all of Telamon's earned assets and also took his user ID. When asked about the name change, he tweeted that he did so because he outgrew his previous name.^[5]

Experiences[]

Sword Fights on the Heights IV[]

Sword Fights on the Heights IV, also known as SFOTH IV (as it is abbreviated) is the most notable sword fighting game that was made by Shedletsky. The game has more than twenty million place visits as of now.

Sword Fights on the Heights Original[]

This is the first installment of the Sword Fight of the Heights series.

A Bridge Too Far[]

A Bridge Too Far is a game that was created on September 21, 2007. The objective of the game is to blow up the bridge. This game has over 100,000 place visits.

Mission to the Moon[]

Mission to the Moon is a game that was created in 2007. Users are encouraged to wear the Astronaut Helmet on their Avatar before playing the game. If the player doesn't wear the astronaut helmet in the "Mission to the Moon" place, the player's head would briefly expand and eventually explode and the player would die from the explosion of the head, due to the supposed lack of oxygen. The game used to be the original "Telamon's place" game because it was created on the same day John created his account, but later it was changed to Mission to the Moon.

My First ROBLOX Level[]

My First ROBLOX Level is one of the first games that was created by John. It was created in June 2006. As of November 16, 2023, the game has been visited 76,598 times and has been favorited 3,646 times. The game's description says: "June 2006" It is one of the earliest versions of Crossroads.

Ride a Cart Into My Face[]

Ride a Cart Into My Face is a game that was created in 2012 by John. This game has accumulated almost 100,000 place visits. In this game, you ride a cart into a model of Shedletsky's real-life face. The face was created out of a section of a photo of him standing by a lake, a canvas was made to make the face look 3D, and the photo was projected onto the canvas to make a 3-dimensional model of his face.

Domino Rally[]

Domino Rally is an uncopylocked game that was created in 2007. This game has accumulated almost 400,000 place visits. In this game, you have to push dominos to make them fall over and make a big domino rally. The game has been favorited 10,836 times. The game's description says: "If you can't think of a million cool levels to make with this idea, then you have no imagination at all."

Nuke The Whales[]

Nuke The Whales is a game that was created on March 5, 2008. It has accumulated over 860,000 place visits and has been favorited 37,190 times.

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Former appearances[]

Shedletsky (on his Telamon account) was known for his shirt saying "I ♥ fried chicken". The gear he was holding was the Turkey Leg (Which looked similar to a chicken leg) to go with his shirt.

Social media use[]

April Fools' jokes[]

On April Fools' Day of 2007, John made an announcement on the blog announcing that Google purchased Roblox and had renamed the game to Gooblox.^[6] Later in the day, David Baszucki (also known as Builderman ) released another blog post that explained the April Fools joke and that the Gooblox domain was purchased by Google.^[7] Users who enter the URL http://gooblox.com will be redirected to the Roblox website.

In 2010, his Administrator badge was removed for a short period of time as a part of a second April Fools joke.^[8]^[9] After this, many people speculated that this was a mistake. However, this was not the case and he later regained the Administrator badge.

Non-fungible tokens[]

On September 23, 2021, Shedletsky announced that he had minted a series of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) consisting of screenshots he took in Roblox Studio and various Roblox experiences, which he sold on OpenSea for the cryptocurrency Ethereum.^[10]^[11]

Criticism of artists[]

In September 2023, Shedletsky defended Roblox's (later scrapped) plan to require all future items sold on the UGC catalog to be limiteds, calling the UGC catalog a "monopoly" that could only be busted by opening the catalog up to the community, which would make the UGC catalog unprofitable for its creators.^[12] After Builder_Boy, a UGC creator, responded by pointing out his tweet was never criticizing Roblox's plans to make the UGC catalog public and was instead criticizing Roblox's plans to further cut revenue shares for creators who did not upload limited UGC items as "corporate greed",^[13]^[14] Shedletsky scoffed at Builder_Boy's use of the term and suggested that Roblox was being generous by having a user-generated catalog in the first place, arguing that it would be cheaper for Roblox to continue contracting its catalog items and selling them from the Roblox account.^[15] Shedletsky also defended Roblox's steep 70 percent tax on UGC item sales, arguing that Roblox was "providing more than 70 percent of the value" through their marketplace and ecosystem, and that all artists provided to it were the meshes of the items sold on it.^[16]

In September 2024, Shedletsky received criticism for defending the use of artificial intelligence art tools, saying that it didn't need validation from artists to justify its existence and suggesting that it was unethical to rely on artists "if you don't really need to". When presented with the environmental and social impact of using AI art tools by an artist, Shedletsky suggested that the artist was unable to create anything better than an artificial intelligence, prompting further criticism.^[17]

Controversial remarks[]

In March 2020, Shedletsky updated his Twitter bio to include a transphobic joke about which pronouns he used^[18], which was met with backlash from various Roblox users who claimed that the joke was transphobic. Shedletsky largely ignored users calling on him to remove the joke from his bio, only responding to the backlash in a Tweet he made in response to a user pointing out the joke during another controversy.^[19] He removed the pronoun joke from his bio on August 14, 2021, likely due to his Twitter bio hitting the 160 character limit.^[20]

In September 2024, Shedletsky reposted a video of a rancher tending to a horse's hooves with the caption, "human should just leave horses alone",^[21] to which another user replied comparing what the rancher was doing to trimming a dog's nails.^[22] Shedletsky then suggested that the horses would be "more comfortable running wild than being someone's property",^[23] and after another user pointed out that tamed horses cannot survive in the wild, Shedletsky then compared tamed horses to slaves, prompting criticism from users who saw Shedletsky's tweet as racist.^[24]

Personal life[]

Shedletsky graduated from Brewster High School in Brewster, New York,^[25] afterwards attending Stanford University, where he earned a bachelor's and master's degree in computer science with additional focuses on biology and classical literature.^[26] His interests include computer graphics, machine vision, game theory, game design, graphic design, oil painting, bio simulations, and classical literature.

Outside of Roblox, John is married to the former administrator known as BrightEyes.

Trivia[]

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In 2007, Shedletsky and Builderman went to the Stanford startup job fair to recruit a few software developers for the Roblox team.^[27]
In-game, an Epic Face icon named the 'Telamonster'^[28] appears next to Shedletsky's username on the player list.^[29]^[30]^[31]
Blame John is a popular saying related to Shedletsky. This phrase originated during the 2010 Egg Hunt when the first egg drop failed to meet players' expectations. The phrase later appeared in an advertisement for the Gear of the Week: Fortune Telling Eight Ball gear, and the Protest Sign: Blame John gear is based on the phrase.
He helped design a game in 2006 named Euclidean Crisis.^[32]
He once owned a forum website known as IronNoob. It was shut down in 2014.
Shedletsky created the original 1x1x1x1 account in 2007. The account currently named 1x1x1x1 was made in 2010 by another user.
Since the start of 2015, trade requests from him have become more common, as he often trades with random players.
On November 15, 2019, Maximum_ADHD (formerly known as CloneTrooper1019) confirmed in a live stream with Fleskhjerta that Shedletsky is a father, which had not previously been known nor announced until then.^[33]
Combining all the value of his limiteds spanning over different accounts, he is the richest Roblox player, even exceeding the value of Roblox . As of 09/07/2024, he has a total of 438 Million value (438,744,960)