ChatRoulette: Do you dare take it for a spin?
Monday, February 22nd, 2010 - 10:47pm
Now I'm too old to keep up with Internet trends these days so tell me, how is it that there's no Chatroulette thread yet?
New York Magazine: Is ChatRoulette the future of the Internet or its distant past?
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The site activates your webcam automatically; when you click “start” you’re suddenly staring at another human on your screen and they’re staring back at you, at which point you can either choose to chat (via text or voice) or just click “next,” instantly calling up someone else. The result is surreal on many levels. Early ChatRoulette users traded anecdotes on comment boards with the eerie intensity of shipwreck survivors, both excited and freaked out by what they’d seen. There was a man who wore a deer head and opened every conversation with “What up DOE!?” A guy from Sweden was reportedly speed-drawing strangers’ portraits. Someone with a guitar was improvising songs for anyone who’d give him a topic. One man popped up on people’s screens in the act of fornicating with a head of lettuce. Others dressed like ninjas, tried to persuade women to expose themselves, and played spontaneous transcontinental games of Connect Four. Occasionally, people even made nonvirtual connections: One punk-music blogger met a group of people from Michigan who ended up driving eleven hours to crash at his house for a concert in New York. And then, of course, fairly often, there was this kind of thing: “I saw some hot chicks then all of a sudden there was a man with a glass in his butthole.”
Admittedly, I honestly didn't have enough interest (guts?) to experience in person but I find the concept fascinating. Luckily, YouTube had me covered.
Discuss.
I love how you posted a screenshot of your search yielding no results. Like we were going to think you were lying.
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Just making sure I've taken my *cough* medicine. Like I said, I don't ever expect to be the first to post a thread on some Internet fad or trend.
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I'm interested in trying it out, but I have to steel my nerves first.
If I can get it going on my laptop, I'll try recording some video tomorrow and see if anything interesting happens.
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No. No I do not dare to take it for a spin.
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I give you the ChatRoulette drinking game. Some NSFW writing.
We played this this weekend and trust me, it makes for one insanely interesting evening!
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After yesterday's Penny Arcade? Hell no!
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Mystic Violet wrote:
Well, if you like to see young men masturbating furiously, that would probably be a dynamite service.
Of course, you might happen into ChattyJerk, who's pretty funny.
Elewis17 wrote:
Yeah... no. I've heard about it before but it's usually in the context of "It took a whole 6 seconds before I saw some guy's twig and berries pressed up next to the camera." No thanks. This is more of a nightmare for me. I remember the old chat rooms on local BBS's and AOL. The ones where people could be randomly obnoxious. Now I'm just imagining that with cameras. Sure, I may meet some cool people but I'll also see a hundred thousand things that would require eye bleach.
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I can't look at chatroulette. Friend of mine who was about a year ago raving about making his own startups/writing webapps etc. asked me then for ideas what he should start with and my answer was exactly what chatroulette is... And that stupid wanker said "why would somebody be interested in that?".
He would be famous by now and I would have my 10%! Gah!
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My wife had a hard enough time with me chatting with strangers when playing WoW - I don't think it would be good for the marriage if I was online video chatting with strangers.
That said - I am intrigued.
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wordsmythe wrote:
It sounds interesting, but not so much I can overcome the idea of it and try it.
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Jonman wrote:
I'd only heard about this site about 3 days before this post. This idea of putting together random participants in a chat has been done many times over, the only difference I see with this setup is that you actually see the other person on webcam.
I think you can accomplish much the same thing without a webcam, just log into a random IRC channel while looking at PeopleofWalMart.com in your browser. Same images, with 65% less man sausage.
This does make me wonder what the percentage of people out there with webcams is these days. Have webcams really gotten so common that the majority of computer users have one? I've never owned one myself, nobody wants to see my ugly mug peeking out of the screen at them.
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Seems like practically all laptops have one now.
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Much like Russian Roulette, I fear that every sixth click results in serious brain damage at best.
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From my understanding, it's more like Russian Roulette with 5 chambers loaded.
You don't need a webcam to check it out. I tried it for maybe 30 seconds yesterday. No man junk present. Just a lot of people staring into a screen which is kinda strange to watch.
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I think there's some social commentary about the greater internet douchebag theory to be made here, but I don't have enough brainpower to state it.
Oh, and I don't really have the will to try it out.
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http://catroulette.tumblr.com/
So much better.
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Gravey wrote:
ChatRoulette. "WEINER BOMB!". Thousands of GWJ members.
Just sayin'. Keep the meme alive.
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Yummy.
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Okay, I tried it.
For the most part, I just saw lots of bored people who didn't want to talk to me. I'm assuming this was because I was fully clothed and lacking in oogaba. There were some highlights - I played a rousing game of tic-tac-toe with some guy in military fatigues and a girl with dreadlocks taught me how to play "Everything Counts" on melodica.
Then my luck ran out, and I was treated to a screencast of a guy surfing porn, followed by what I can only guess was a live recreation of goatse.
In other words, it's 8/10ths people staring blankly at the screen, 1/10th amazing and surreal, and 1/10th unspeakably horrifying.
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Just like real life.
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I loaded it up to check it out. To my amazement my 2nd hit was a woman in a bikini in bed. Due to the fact that I don't have a cam I was quickly disconnected. I then found a variety of "deer in headlight" people and luckily in my 15 hits got only 1 cam I'd rather have not received.
I think it will be more fun once I have some beers in me
First try was a man wearing no pants.
6 instant disconnects.
Then there was a group of 3 people from Brooklyn. One man and two women. They were fun.
One of the women was from Germany and we chatted in German for a while. The man was from Texas and he was waving a plush Pedobear. They had a Connex Rollercoaster in the background. When I recognized pedo-bear they also showed me their Cyanide and Happiness plush. They seemed slightly sad that they couldn't mess with me, but in the end I think we enjoyed the chat.
And that's the last I will ever touch this thing. End on a good note.
Politely rude. Briskly vague. Firmly uninformative.
Jon Stewart dares.
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I'll take everyone else's word for it. I would like to give some kind of recognition for the people who aptly named it, though.
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Haven't watched in a few days. I laughed out loud.
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