Hi Aidan,
We appreciate you flagging this to us and we apologize for the delay.
We identified the issue on the same day and promptly addressed it. The heart of the issue stemmed from our efforts to democratize discovery by mitigating our search system’s bias toward popular experiences. Typically, we deploy specific strategies to bring fresh experiences into the spotlight, but these are intended for very narrow search queries. In this case, our approach inadvertently extended to a broad term (“anime”), leading to the mix-up. We have conducted a thorough review to ensure we have sufficient guardrails in place to avoid similar issues for broad search terms.
Furthermore, We are working on overhauling Roblox search to make sure that results are entirely determined by algorithms, providing relevant and quality results. You can find our vision for discovery and search here.
Thank you.