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I remember quite a while back, Chat Roulette song improv was a big thing. It was the guy in the hoodie - PianoChatImprov on Youtube. I just looked it up and, wow, that was 10 years ago.

This was also before Chat Roulette became nothing but dongs.




I'm kinda surprised there was a "before" in that situation. I presumed that was what was going tonhappen from the get-go.

Perhaps I am too cynical.


Sadly, no. At the beginning it was mostly random people. Unfortunately, you need very little to ruin things - most normal people will not play even with a 10% chance of getting a dong, and the more “normies” leave, the higher that chance gets, in a vicious circle.


Maybe it just normalized to be only "normies", and normal people just happen to really like dongs, even if unspoken?


Perhaps, but probably not. How many people use chat roulette today?


The wants of the recipients aren't represented in the marketplace of dickpics.


In these confusing times I sometimes tend to forget that being a normie is a good thing.


That's not the definition of 'normie' I'm familiar with. In fact, I'd expect normies to be the ones showing dongs.


Normie means unremarkable middle-of-the-road as far as I know.

Showing dongs in anonymous video chats is not what I'd expect from a normie.


The dynamics here reminds me of https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZQG9cwKbct2LtmL3p/evaporativ...


That's an interesting blog post.

As an aside, I've noticed exactly what the author mentions in it happening in hacker news recently - there is a shift in politics to less tolerance. I've reduced my own viewing because of it.

I suppose it will just re-enforce that lack of tolerance.


I was on Chat Roulette very early.. and maybe my memory is bad (I'm getting old) but I remember it being dongs pretty much from day one.


You'd think with the state of machine learning these days someone could have another go at it, and ban users who show their dongs


Not Hotdog


Or for those that want it, have a dong on / dong off preference.


the question is, would it be possible to implement something like that in a way where dong shows don't take over? What is it exactly that turned chat roulette into that?


> What is it exactly that turned chat roulette into that?

Being on the internet?


First and foremost, upon returning to this thread after a few hours, I’m stoked how many people I got to say the word “dong”. Anyway.

Nowadays it would probably be easier than ever to detect certain shapes? I don’t know, we have artificial intelligence that can detect all sorts of things, male genitalia probably that hard to detect.


They could have Snapchat-like filters that turn it into something innocent


* would it be possible to implement something like that in a way where dong shows don't take over? *

Having an option to mark yourself as NSFW, and to decide if you want to see NSFW cams would go a long way.


IIRC they had this and only guys used it (because only guys were naked on chatroulette to begin with) so nobody used it.


Yea, discord can detect dicks. I'm guessing that the hotdog/no hotdog algorithm is advanced enough by now.


Really? I've never been in a group where one is sent, does it block it or just mark it as NSFW?


There might be a setting for the room, I've seen it marked as explicit content prevented from uploading and it doesn't show the picture.


I still play piano on omegle occasionally. Dudes will cancel the chat immediately.

One time I got a girl who was just talking about her shitty relationship with the chat on mute. I had to skip her myself.


Perhaps some sort food detection software that returns "Hotdog" or "Not Hotdog" could be repurposed for this.




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