Roblox's Protest Sign series is a family of picket-sign gear items, and only four of them are Limiteds: Protest Sign: Noobs, Protest Sign: Blame John, and the two signs from September 2009 that argue with each other about user GUIs. A Limited is an item with a fixed number of copies that owners can resell to each other, and those four hold 3,673 copies between them. As of September 22, 2026, the priciest by RAP is Protest Sign: Noobs at 18,882 R$, and the scarcest is Protest Sign: We'd Rather Have User GUIs Later... with 351 copies. Every other sign in the family is ordinary gear with no copy cap.
Quick answer: Four Protest Signs are Limiteds, all released between September 2009 and April 2010, with 3,673 copies in total. Listed copies run from roughly 5,700 R$ to 34,000 R$ today, and the rarest of them asks about double its RAP because almost nobody lists one.
| Item | Released | Type | Copies | RAP | Lowest ask |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Protest Sign: Noobs |
Feb 26, 2010 | Limited U | 917 | 18,882 R$ | 14,899 R$ |
 Protest Sign: We'd Rather Have User GUIs Later... |
Sep 18, 2009 | Limited | 351 | 17,365 R$ | 34,000 R$ |
 Protest Sign: Blame John |
Apr 20, 2010 | Limited U | 953 | 15,952 R$ | 12,500 R$ |
 Protest Sign: We Want User GUIs Now! |
Sep 18, 2009 | Limited | 1,452 | 6,403 R$ | 5,740 R$ |
RAP means recent average price, the smoothed average Roblox keeps for every Limited based on its sale history. The lowest ask is the cheapest copy a reseller currently has listed. Both figures come from RBX Invest catalog data pulled on September 21 and 22, 2026, and both move, so treat them as a snapshot. You can see the whole classic gear category ranked live on the classic gear collection.
What is the Protest Sign series on Roblox? Picket-sign gear from 2009 and 2010
Protest Signs are gear, the category of items you equip and hold in your character's hand inside an experience. Each one is the same sign model with a different message painted on it, which is why they all look like the same prop from a distance. The Roblox Wiki's series page traces the family from September 2009 through January 2017 across more than a dozen members, with the jokes tracking whatever the community was arguing about that month.
Roblox published most of them as regular catalog gear anyone could buy. Four were either sold as Limiteds or flipped to Limited status while on sale, and those four are the only ones with a resale market. The rest live on in inventories with no ceiling on how many exist.
Two of the four are Limited U items, which means each copy carries a serial number showing where it sits in the print run. The other two are plain Limiteds without serials. If that distinction is new to you, the Limited vs Limited U guide breaks it down, and serial numbers get their own explainer.
Why does Protest Sign: Blame John exist? A 2010 Egg Hunt joke
Blame John is the one people still quote. Its Roblox catalog description reads: "A typical conversation at ROBLOX HQ Brighteyes: 'Where's my double hat feature?' Silence... 'I blame John.'" The John in question is John Shedletsky, one of Roblox's best known early staff members, and Brighteyes is another early staff name with a Limited line of their own.
The Roblox Wiki attributes the phrase to the 2010 Egg Hunt, where the first egg drop ran badly and "blame John" became the running gag. Roblox turned the joke into a 400 R$ sign on April 20, 2010 with a thousand copies. That origin story comes from collector records, so treat it as community lore and the dates and prices as the checkable part.
It worked out well for the people who bought one. 400 R$ turned into a 15,952 R$ RAP, roughly 40 times the sticker price over sixteen years. Our catalog tracks 953 copies surviving today and 8,518 favorites on the item, which is a lot of affection for a picket sign.
Which Protest Sign is rarest? We'd Rather Have User GUIs Later, at 351 copies
In September 2009 Roblox published two signs on the same day, taking opposite sides of a debate about user-made GUIs, the custom on-screen menus and buttons that scripters wanted. One sign campaigns for them: "User GUIs will revolutionize ROBLOX and we don't want to wait another single day before we can play with them." The other sign campaigns against, with a straight face: "We don't know what GUIs are, and we don't want to know. If you ask us, there's enough goo in ROBLOX without making things any more gooey."
Six days later the feature shipped. The Roblox Wiki dates scriptable GUIs to September 24, 2009, citing a Roblox blog post written by Shedletsky that has since been removed from the site, so the exact day is community-documented.
The pro-GUI sign sold 1,452 copies. The anti-GUI sign sold 351. Players bought the side they agreed with, the unpopular opinion ended up scarce, and seventeen years later the joke sign almost nobody wanted carries nearly three times the RAP of the one everybody did. That ratio is the single most useful thing in this article: supply set by a popularity contest in 2009 still sets prices in 2026.
Why does the rarest sign ask double its RAP? A thin float
Float means the number of copies actually available to buy at any moment. All four signs have small floats, and the 351-copy sign has the smallest of all, which produces the widest gap in the family:
- We'd Rather Have User GUIs Later: lowest ask 34,000 R$ against a 17,365 R$ RAP, about 96% above it.
- Noobs: lowest ask 14,899 R$ against an 18,882 R$ RAP, about 21% below it.
- Blame John: lowest ask 12,500 R$ against a 15,952 R$ RAP, about 22% below it.
- We Want User GUIs Now: lowest ask 5,740 R$ against a 6,403 R$ RAP, about 10% below it.
When a few hundred copies exist and two or three are listed, the cheapest seller sets the headline number and can ask whatever they like. RAP updates only when a sale actually happens, so on an item that trades a handful of times a year the RAP can sit months behind the asks. The what RAP is guide covers the formula, and the items leaderboard lets you sort the whole market by RAP, copies and current price to spot the same pattern elsewhere.
The three signs asking below RAP tell a different story. Sellers there are willing to take less than the smoothed average, which usually means recent sales have been softer than the RAP suggests. Below-RAP listings across the market show up in the Deals feed, which needs a signed-in Roblox account.
Which Protest Signs are not Limiteds? Most of the family
The rest of the series stayed as ordinary gear, and several are worth knowing about because collectors confuse them with the Limiteds:
- Protest Sign: Save the Zombies is still on sale in Roblox's catalog for 150 R$ as of this writing, with no copy cap and no resale market. You can hold the same joke as a Limited owner for pocket change, minus the collectible part. Its page is at asset 21440120.
- Protest Sign: Save the Whales and Protest: More Gear Nao came out in September and October 2009 at 150 R$ and went off sale around January 2010, per Roblox Wiki records.
- Protest Sign: Pro Fake Mustache arrived in January 2010 and makes booing noises when you use it.
- Protest Sign: Egg Hunt Nao and Protest Sign: Eggs are for eating. launched in March 2010 and returned during the 2014 egg hunt.
- Protest Sign: Save the Fireworks and Protest Sign: Explode the Fireworks were a July 2014 pair, on sale for two weeks.
- Protest: ROBLOXians Against SOPA was available for a single day, January 18, 2012, tied to the SOPA blackout.
- Save the Noobs Protest Sign arrived in 2017 through a code packed with a Roblox toy.
None of those have RAP, copies or resale prices, because none of them are Limiteds. They are still real items sitting in owners' inventories, and for most of the family that is the whole story.
Are Protest Sign Limiteds worth buying in 2026? What a collector should weigh
These are small, quiet items. All four combined carry 58,602 R$ of RAP, under half the RAP of a single Dominus Formidulosus at 134,690 R$. They sell rarely and no hype cycle is pulling new buyers in. What they do have is genuine 2009 and 2010 provenance, a story that takes ten seconds to explain, and copy counts that can never grow. Three of the four sit under 1,000 copies, which puts them in the same scarcity band as the items on the Limiteds under 1,000 copies collection.
Run the resale math before you buy. Roblox charges a 30% marketplace fee when you resell a classic Limited, meaning one Roblox made itself, so you keep 70% of the sale price. Buy the pro-GUI sign at its 5,740 R$ ask and you need to sell near 8,200 R$ just to get your Robux back. On an item that trades a few times a year, that is a long wait, and patience is the entry requirement here.
Two more mechanics matter. Trading a classic Limited requires an active Roblox Plus subscription on both accounts, and Roblox's marketplace documentation states that only Roblox-created Limiteds are tradeable at all, so the community-made UGC Limiteds you see on the market can only be resold. After you buy a copy on the resale market there is a 7-day holding period before you can resell it, and after receiving one in a trade the hold is 2 days.
My read: the anti-GUI sign is the interesting one, because 351 copies of a genuine 2009 item is real scarcity and the ask gap shows how few owners want to part with theirs. Blame John is the better story at a lower price. The pro-GUI sign is the cheapest way into the family at under 6,000 R$, with four times the supply to compete with when you sell. None of this is financial advice, and a 2009 gear item with three active sellers can move against you fast.
Copy counts, RAP and lowest asks in this article come from RBX Invest catalog data as of September 22, 2026; item descriptions, release dates, sale prices and Limited status were checked against Roblox's own catalog and economy data, series membership and the origin stories against the community-maintained Roblox Wiki, and the tradeability rule against Roblox's marketplace documentation.
FAQ
How many Protest Sign Limiteds are there on Roblox?
Four. Protest Sign: Noobs, Protest Sign: Blame John, Protest Sign: We Want User GUIs Now!, and Protest Sign: We'd Rather Have User GUIs Later... hold 3,673 copies between them. Every other member of the Protest Sign series is ordinary gear with no copy limit and no resale market.
What is the rarest Protest Sign?
Protest Sign: We'd Rather Have User GUIs Later..., with 351 copies. It was the unpopular half of a two-sign pair published on September 18, 2009, where the pro-GUI version sold 1,452 copies. Its RAP sits at 17,365 R$ as of September 22, 2026, with the cheapest listed copy at 34,000 R$.
How much is Protest Sign: Blame John worth?
Its RAP is 15,952 R$ and the lowest listed copy is 12,500 R$ as of September 22, 2026, across 953 tracked copies. It originally sold for 400 R$ in April 2010, so early buyers are up roughly 40 times, though the price moves with each sale.
Who is the John in Protest Sign: Blame John?
John Shedletsky, an early Roblox staff member. The Roblox Wiki traces the phrase to the 2010 Egg Hunt, where the first egg drop went poorly and "I blame John" became a running joke among staff and players. Roblox turned it into a 400 R$ Limited U sign with an original stock of 1,000 copies.
Can you still buy a Protest Sign from Roblox?
Yes, one of them. Protest Sign: Save the Zombies is still listed in Roblox's catalog for 150 R$ with no copy cap, so it has no RAP and no resale value. The four Limiteds can only be bought from other players through the resale market or a trade.
Are Protest Signs hats or gear?
Gear. You equip a Protest Sign and hold it in your character's hand inside an experience, and using one plays a protesting crowd sound. Every member of the family shares the same sign model with a different message texture applied.
Why is the lowest ask higher than the RAP on the rarest sign?
Because almost nobody lists one. RAP updates only when a sale goes through, so on an item with 351 copies and a handful of active sellers it can lag months behind what sellers currently want. The cheapest listed copy at 34,000 R$ is what one seller is asking today, and the 17,365 R$ RAP reflects sales that already happened.
Do I need Roblox Plus to trade a Protest Sign Limited?
Yes. Trading classic Limiteds requires an active Roblox Plus subscription on both accounts involved, and reselling one requires it on the seller's account. A buyer purchasing a resale listing does not need a subscription.