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“Pursue yourself!” Roblox developer Quazar shares a story of self-expression and identity through digital media on the #intothedigtialfuture podcast. Hear how Quazar’s Vision Park, a quirky 1980s-themed, neon theme park became a safe digital place for players to escape to and find community.

On April 5, 2009, 11-year-old Carl Walker-Hoover hanged himself after enduring constant bullying at school, despite his mother’s weekly pleas to the school to address the problem. It was the fourth suicide of a middle-school aged child linked to bullying that year. That same spring, Cartoon Network’s audience research with young people 6-14 found that of all the concerns kids had—concerns including parents who were out of work and worries about wars Americans were fighting overseas—bullying was one that stood…