Rob

There was a guy I knew on Roblox. His name was just a bunch of jumbled numbers, so I don't remember his name. He told me to call him Rob, so I did.

I asked him why his name was like that, he just responded "I'm not creative at names.", so I didn't really care. His appearance was average for the time - it was 2011. He had no hats, just pale arms and a head, with a blue shirt and blue pants, but I noticed something in his inventory, a hat. The hat was blank, it was called "test hat", and it was made by... him.

I was curious, so I clicked on it and it took me to a 404 page. I thought it was just a glitch, so I wasn't bothered by it. But after that, something strange happened. Rob started acting aggressive, as if he didn't want me to talk to him, until he eventually unfriended me, I was both angry and uncaring of the situation. The website started to bug out, I looked in the catalog and all the hats were test hats, just untextured grey baseball caps, so I thought the site was broken. I posted a forum post about what happened, but it was removed and I was banned for 3 days, for "harassment".

When I logged back on, I saw someone in my friends list, which was empty at the time, as my account was new. I messaged him, and he responded with a blank message. I decided enough was enough, so I quit ROBLOX, and I made a new account a month later. Somehow, he was already in my friend's list. I tried hard to remove him, but no matter what I did, he was still in my friend list, eventually he disappeared, and I had no idea what happened, but I never saw him again.

But even today, People I know have been reporting the same thing, they say that he introduced himself under new names, jumbled letters, random names, it was odd... but it just kept happening. I reported him to ROBLOX, and I got a response, but it wasn't what I expected. It was my address. He quit messing with people, and I never heard from him again. But then it hit me, Rob was the name of my neighbor's son that passed not long before this "Rob" fellow appeared on the site.