fidget spinners were popular at the time and you know how roblox is with fads (shoutout to anyone who remembers the doge head/zombie doge and the doge pet that got worn on every loving obc friend i had seen. let's also not forget the outcry that de-selling shaggy got and then roblox made the rainbow shaggy and a bunch of other gay shaggys to cash out on it.) but roblox has basically always been allowing you to pay for roblox
you used to get like 500 for 1 dollar i think