R.I.P. Chatroulette ☀
Is it time to mourn the passing of Chatroulette, the once wildly popular random video chat site which took the internet by storm late last year?
It always seems the stars that burn the brightest are the ones to flame out the fastest. So it was as unsurprising as it was sad when the news broke early Tuesday that Chatroulette’s cultural relevance had expired overnight. Cause of death: penises.
I rarely ever ventured in to the video chat chasm known as Chatroulette for that exact reason. While I wield a penis each and every day, I have absolutely no desire to see others parry theirs in a video chat room. On the few occasions I did journey to the center of chat hell I was greeted by more penis wielding people than I had ever seen in a Japanese onsen. As a result I was never able to get the juices flowing enough to visit.
So it comes as no surprise to see Salon claim Chatroulette effectively dead. Prior to writing this article I ventured in to the antechamber and was not greeted by an enormous member, nor was there a grand amount of people online.
Maybe Salon is correct in their assessment and Chatroulette has already passed. Somehow I doubt the site will be missed. At all.
