➤erik.cassel 🕹

Erik Cassel (December 16, 1967 - February 11, 2013), formerly known on Roblox as erik.cassel, was a co-founder, administrator and former vice president of engineering at Roblox. He was quite active on the website, but he rarely played any games. He died of cancer on February 11, 2013.

Summary

1 Death
2 Memorial
3 Unknown activity
4 Trivia
5 Related Links
6 Gallery

Death

On February 11, 2013, Roblox staff said on Roblox's Twitter that Erik Cassel had apparently "lost his fight against cancer" earlier that day at the age of 45. Keith confirmed it at the last minute in a forum post.

Memorial

On February 12, 2013, hundreds of people gathered at the Erik Cassel Memorial to mourn the death of Erik Cassel. Many of these people dressed up as Erik Cassel to pay tribute to him. On February 15, 2013, ROBLOX created a t-shirt called "Official Erik Shirt in memory of Erik.cassel. The shirt went on sale 8 days later. Also in memory of Erik Cassel, ROBLOX changed the name of a hat formerly known as the "Well Worn Hat" by "Erik Cassel's Hat" in memory of Erik, and put it up for sale for a short hour. ROBLOX made this description in both of these two articles.

Unknown activity

In May 2014, erik.cassel was online, surprising many players. Some said he was hacked by an unknown user, others said his younger brother or children were using his account, the latter generally being the accepted explanation.

Trivia

His two children's Roblox usernames are: stunshocker and redustian.
He and NerfModder are the only known famous gamers who died suddenly while active on Roblox.
Strangely, erik.cassel owns a game badge called Prove It, which was made on February 3, 2016. This badge is also present in another admin account. This badge was given to the most popular robloxians including erik.cassel, due to a feature where you can put badges on accounts if you have enough permission, Clonetrooper1019 added 4 badges when why it seemed to confirm that John Doe is not a hacker , and that Clonetrooper1019 is a confirmed intern, the Prove It badge is on the accounts of John / Jane Doe Telamon and many others.
erik.cassel has a ROBLOX Series 1 toy modeled after him.

A toy from Erik.cassel.
His personal emails are erik_cassel@pacbell.net and erik@cassel.name