Is ChatRoulette the future of the Internet or its distant past?

February 6, 2010 3:14 PM

"The first time I entered ChatRoulette — a new website that brings you face-to-face, via webcam, with an endless stream of random strangers all over the world — I was primed for a full-on Walt Whitman experience: an ecstatic surrender to the miraculous variety and abundance of humankind. [...] The first eighteen people who saw me disconnected immediately."

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posted by Afroblanco (124 comments total)

We talked for half an hour with a 28-year-old tech writer from San Francisco.

That was me.
posted by roll truck roll at 3:26 PM on February 6, 2010 [15 favorites]

Web 1.0 wankery. Why not just call phone numbers at random?

When this thing is "curated" by the use of filters, or separate groups form up based on common interests (eg debate politics with a stranger!), it will be far more useful.
posted by Artful Codger at 3:28 PM on February 6, 2010 [2 favorites]

MetaFilter: I might choose to be thrown randomly into a pool of English-speaking thirtysomething non-masturbators who like to read poetry.
posted by jason's_planet at 3:29 PM on February 6, 2010 [2 favorites]

Ecstatic surrender, indeed. Flipping through for a few minutes, mostly I saw men who wanted to show themselves masturbating.
posted by Houstonian at 3:32 PM on February 6, 2010 [2 favorites]

Next!
posted by dr_dank at 3:32 PM on February 6, 2010

"Excuse me, but do you have Prince Albert in a can?" snigger snigger snigger
posted by briank at 3:34 PM on February 6, 2010

myfreecams.com ?? wtf is chatroulette geez , next
posted by Clementines4ever at 3:37 PM on February 6, 2010

Web 1.0 wankery. Why not just call phone numbers at random?

It's not that we couldn't do it before. It's that there was never a venue before that existed entirely to video chat random people. Kind of like how ICQ or Omegle gave people a reason to talk to random people, this lets you do the same in person.

The Internet gives you a safety net because you can always close the screen. You're not stuck at a diner with a random person who might bore you or unnerve you, you're talking to somebody that you can get rid of with a click.

The Web 1.0/Web 2.0 argument is pretty stupid. A better set of questions: Is this interesting? Is this enjoyable? Will I reminisce fondly about this?
posted by Rory Marinich at 3:38 PM on February 6, 2010 [2 favorites]

"One man popped up on people's screens in the act of fornicating with a head of lettuce."

See, that's exactly the sort of thing that prevents me from ever bothering with something like ChatRoulette.

The Internet in a nutshell.
posted by bwg at 3:41 PM on February 6, 2010 [7 favorites]

Oh boy, we need a MetaVideo now! One of us should work on that. Imagine one of those 200+ comment FPP threads as a videoconference! OK, bad example.
posted by Xezlec at 3:43 PM on February 6, 2010

Ten minutes of clicking and I only saw one ding-dong.

Slow night, I guess.
posted by jason's_planet at 3:45 PM on February 6, 2010

There's at least one good reason for using this service.
posted by ChurchHatesTucker at 3:45 PM on February 6, 2010 [35 favorites]

"There's at least one good reason for using this service."

And at least one reason not to: It's /b/'s latest thing.
posted by mr_crash_davis mark II: Jazz Odyssey at 3:47 PM on February 6, 2010 [4 favorites]

Oh boy, we need a MetaVideo now!

Or ... MeatVideo.
posted by bwg at 3:52 PM on February 6, 2010

found out about chat roulette a few weeks ago
is mostly cocks
posted by nathancaswell at 3:59 PM on February 6, 2010

This sounds like an neat CBT desensitization tool for treating social anxiety.
posted by Salvor Hardin at 4:05 PM on February 6, 2010 [2 favorites]

Doesn't this mostly lead to a wall of cocks?

(on preview - My 15 year old greifer self would have found this an endless source of amusements for all the wrong reasons . )
posted by The Whelk at 4:05 PM on February 6, 2010 [1 favorite]

a pool of English-speaking thirtysomething non-masturbators

Sounds a bit dodgy to me. Not into that shit.
posted by Elmore at 4:06 PM on February 6, 2010 [3 favorites]

Rory,

No. No, and no you won't.
posted by brando_calrissian at 4:06 PM on February 6, 2010

Hahahaha someone had a "tits/dick" scorecard going. Oh man I am 15 now.
posted by The Whelk at 4:07 PM on February 6, 2010

/b/ has been trolling it for weeks, now.
posted by parhamr at 4:10 PM on February 6, 2010

MetaFilter: the act of fornicating with a head of lettuce
posted by hippybear at 4:13 PM on February 6, 2010 [2 favorites]

The Internet in a nutshell.

The Internet in a head of lettuce anyway.
posted by BrotherCaine at 4:13 PM on February 6, 2010 [5 favorites]

The writer -- in that typical New York Mag way -- had to have been being snarky or facetious when he said that he was expecting a "full-on Walt Whitman experience," because this experience would have made Walt Whitman instantly burn all of his writings in a bonfire, slash his largest convenient veins, and jump screaming off the nearest tall building.
posted by blucevalo at 4:13 PM on February 6, 2010 [2 favorites]

would have made Walt Whitman instantly burn all of his writings in a bonfire, slash his largest convenient veins, and jump screaming off the nearest tall building.

The man was nothing if not thorough, can't deny that.
posted by Salvor Hardin at 4:14 PM on February 6, 2010 [16 favorites]

I spent too many hours on this site last night. It was pretty fascinating; most of the time the stream is of a bunch of men alone at their computer scanning the site. I started waving to see who would wave back at me, and then I had some pretty awesome conversations with people from all over: China, Macedonia, Romania, Netherlands, Canada, Mexico, lots of kids who were pregaming in college dormitories some where. There were people who were ripping bongs on screen, an ungodly amount of masturbation, cameras pointed at stuffed animals, cameras of someone holding a message. I had a great time.
posted by ofthestrait at 4:15 PM on February 6, 2010 [1 favorite]

That was a lettuce? I thought it was a small watermelon. If it's the same guy he's been at it an awfully long time.
posted by queensissy at 4:18 PM on February 6, 2010 [1 favorite]

MetaFilter: Doesn't this mostly lead to a...

Ah, nuts.
posted by vibrotronica at 4:25 PM on February 6, 2010

I spent one night on chatroulette sewing with my Singer Featherweight in between me and the camera. I had quite a bit of interest - people would look closer to try to figure out what I was doing, and when they asked I would show them the baby blanket I was making.

I also have a somewhat unique winter hat that I seem to wear all the time, that catches peoples interest as well.

My takeaway is that to "succeed" on Chatroulette (i.e., get people to stop and actually talk to you), you need a hook or a gimmick.

(of course, there were also a good numbers of young boys who would exclaim "fag" and disconnect immediately)
posted by davey_darling at 4:28 PM on February 6, 2010

Yea I go on here from time to time. Still dont know why
posted by wheelieman at 4:30 PM on February 6, 2010

Spent a little time on it, had a similar reaction to the article writer -- hurtful when people take one look at you and jump away.

But, my girlfriend put on a werewolf mask and took her top off while I typed -- that got us some amusing reactions.
posted by Saxon Kane at 4:35 PM on February 6, 2010 [1 favorite]

would have made Walt Whitman instantly burn all of his writings in a bonfire, slash his largest convenient veins, and jump screaming off the nearest tall building.

I dunno, there are, as mentioned, a lot of cocks.
posted by The Whelk at 4:37 PM on February 6, 2010 [25 favorites]

This sounds like a torture device for introverts.
posted by Scattercat at 4:39 PM on February 6, 2010 [13 favorites]

Only a matter of time before someone commits a crime on this site. You heard it here first.
posted by crazylegs at 4:45 PM on February 6, 2010

This sounds like an neat CBT desensitization tool for treating social anxiety.

If it's as much of an endless stream of guys verbing the noun as is claimed, it might be a neat CBT tool for inducing social anxiety.

I think "The first eighteen people who saw me disconnected immediately when they realized I wasn't a drunk naked chick." would have been the correct way to describe events.
posted by Kid Charlemagne at 4:54 PM on February 6, 2010 [1 favorite]

crazylegs, Dick Wolf is all over that for the next season of Law & Order: Internet Crimes Unit
posted by emjaybee at 4:55 PM on February 6, 2010 [4 favorites]

This is an excellent argument against getting a webcam. I know myself well enough to say with total authority I would waste entire months on this.
posted by kittens for breakfast at 4:55 PM on February 6, 2010

Only a matter of time before someone commits a crime on this site. You heard it here first.

I saw a guy holding a gun to his head. There was someone behind him, so I assume it was not real, but it certainly made me pause and wonder.

Also saw a guy with his dog. And I mean with his dog.
posted by Houstonian at 4:57 PM on February 6, 2010

bwg: "One man popped up on people's screens in the act of fornicating with a head of lettuce."

See, that's exactly the sort of thing that prevents me from ever bothering with something like ChatRoulette.

The Internet in a nutshell.

BrotherCaine: The Internet in a head of lettuce anyway.

Nuts in an Internet shell.
posted by Anything at 5:00 PM on February 6, 2010 [4 favorites]

What sort of crime are you expecting? I mean it's obviously a big hit among guys who don't have the get up and go to expose themselves the little old ladies in the park, which is illegal at lest that's what the judge told me.

I can't see livecasting yourself tampering with a senator's phone after sneaking into a federal office building using false pretenses going any better with a live web connection than it did with video camera.
posted by Kid Charlemagne at 5:01 PM on February 6, 2010

This sounds like an neat CBT desensitization tool for treating social anxiety.

Isn't the point of CBT that the area is sensitive to begin with? And what would you have to hook up in order to enable CBT, anyway? Would it be USB powered?

Oh, wait. Sorry.

Nevermind.
posted by hippybear at 5:30 PM on February 6, 2010 [10 favorites]

What sort of crime are you expecting?

A sad and sordid one.
posted by DU at 5:31 PM on February 6, 2010

Um, is this normal?
posted by swift at 5:35 PM on February 6, 2010

Tempted to set this up just to see what /b/ is getting up to. But, no.
posted by dhartung at 5:40 PM on February 6, 2010

Um, is this normal?

jesus....
posted by odinsdream at 5:44 PM on February 6, 2010

I am having trouble getting people to dance to Lady GaGa with me. But so far no cocks, so in the end I like it!
posted by LoopyG at 5:55 PM on February 6, 2010

Um, is this normal?

I really, really hope this is not real.
posted by deacon_blues at 5:57 PM on February 6, 2010

So do I. That's terrifying. Swift, did you hit the report link above it?
posted by ocherdraco at 6:01 PM on February 6, 2010

5 cams:

3 young guys and 1 girl who clicked off immediately, 1 hot chick dancing in her bra and underwear for a little while. Not a bad result , I'm going in again
posted by MikeMc at 6:03 PM on February 6, 2010

Ok, 2nd try a bunch of guys, one who flipped me off, one cute chick for a minute and then the, ahem, "turgid" penis made it's appearance. Oh, and me looking at me.
posted by MikeMc at 6:07 PM on February 6, 2010 [1 favorite]

I eventually got a penis too. But not until after a fun chat with some french folks who were ecstatic about my location.
posted by LoopyG at 6:08 PM on February 6, 2010

Oh ya, and still no one wanting to dance to Lady GaGa! WTH is wrong with the webchat world?
posted by LoopyG at 6:09 PM on February 6, 2010

Similar to swift's screen capture, and similar to the one I saw of a guy holding a gun to his head. I can see this getting out of hand quickly.
posted by Houstonian at 6:18 PM on February 6, 2010

Obligatory Infinite Jest reference. I'm both tempted and not.
posted by cortex at 6:21 PM on February 6, 2010

Swift, did you hit the report link above it?

Yep. And I'm pretty sure it's fake.

Kinda sure.
posted by swift at 6:23 PM on February 6, 2010

Similar to swift's screen capture, and similar to the one I saw of a guy holding a gun to his head.

Well, as davey_darling was saying... you have to have a gimmick...
posted by hippybear at 6:23 PM on February 6, 2010

Is there an easy way to feed it a non webcam video source?
posted by geoff. at 6:24 PM on February 6, 2010 [2 favorites]

Yep. And I'm pretty sure it's fake.

Kinda sure.

It's fake. It's mentioned in the article:


"One popular shock image, a picture of a man who’s hanged himself, is terrifying even after you realize it’s fake: It makes you think about the possibility of someone actually hurting themselves, or someone else, in the unmappable ether of social-media space"


I am sad to say I had the displeasure of meeting lettuce guy. It must be a looping video, thoug - no-one could do that 24 hours a day without some serious chafing problems.
posted by embrangled at 6:39 PM on February 6, 2010 [3 favorites]

I kind of like it when the crazy btard internet is a seedy, upsetting themepark I can drop into rather than the entire web. Thanks again, Metafilter.
posted by The Whelk at 6:45 PM on February 6, 2010 [3 favorites]

But, my girlfriend put on a werewolf mask and took her top off while I typed....

One of you is doing it wrong.
posted by cjorgensen at 6:45 PM on February 6, 2010 [2 favorites]

Oh christ just what I need, yet another venue in which I can feel inferior.
posted by Justinian at 6:47 PM on February 6, 2010 [1 favorite]

It's fake.

Whoever's responsible is going to feel real dumb when they actually want to commit suicide on camera.
posted by swift at 6:47 PM on February 6, 2010 [1 favorite]

I can not even imagine how lame a social life you would have to have for this to be an even remotely interesting activity. The mind boggles...
posted by jcworth at 6:49 PM on February 6, 2010

It's fake.

Thank you, very very much. I was avoiding going to sleep until I was sure.

And it's nearly 3am here now.
posted by ZsigE at 6:54 PM on February 6, 2010

I can not even imagine how lame a social life you would have to have for this to be an even remotely interesting activity. The mind boggles...

Big talk from a guy on MetaFilter on a saturday night. Granted, it's still early
posted by Think_Long at 6:57 PM on February 6, 2010 [6 favorites]

I don't get it. It's like no one wants to see my cock or something.
posted by shmegegge at 7:05 PM on February 6, 2010 [13 favorites]

It's an interesting breach of some internet societal wall. It's also sort of a vehicle for visual assault. I can imagine the psyche of a kid being extremely fucked up after seeing fake hanging guy, fake gun-to-head guy, and endless shagging of lettuce guy.
posted by angrycat at 7:27 PM on February 6, 2010

Fyi, when your dick has its own Metafilter account, it's called a cockpuppet. Just throwing this out there.
posted by qvantamon at 7:31 PM on February 6, 2010 [13 favorites]

Gerald the puppet vs. Chatroulette. (one small part possibly NSFW)
posted by Evilspork at 7:41 PM on February 6, 2010 [24 favorites]

i just saw some kid laying in a pool of blood...face and wrists slashed up. i hope that was a joke. he had very dead eyes...odd.
posted by shockingbluamp at 7:43 PM on February 6, 2010

Wow, the fake suicide meme... sounds like these kids been watchin too much Harold and Maude.
posted by Afroblanco at 7:46 PM on February 6, 2010

Wow. I gave it a try, and all anyone said to me was "faggot," followed by disconnecting.

This is what passes for trolling in 2010? I used to troll IRC in the late 90s-early 00s, and damn it, we took time and properly insulted people. We built up layer, upon layer of abuse, and damn it, it was PERSONALIZED. Just calling someone a faggot? No effort.

I want to go back on and see if I can get him again, and tell him to insult me properly. Honestly, though, I have productive things to do instead.
posted by SansPoint at 7:49 PM on February 6, 2010 [3 favorites]

Evilspork - that's awesome. Obviously an early innovator in this new art medium.
posted by Salvor Hardin at 7:58 PM on February 6, 2010

I've been freaking people out with a caterpillar toy.
posted by swift at 8:05 PM on February 6, 2010 [1 favorite]

Is there an easy way to feed it a non webcam video source?

Yes, google ManyCams, both Mac and Windows. (though on windows it seems not to be sending sound, but I've only been playing with it for a few min. working fine on mac)
posted by John Kenneth Fisher at 8:08 PM on February 6, 2010 [1 favorite]

Is there an easy way to feed it a non webcam video source?

Most of the shocking suicide-type things and such are animated gifs.
posted by Stylus Happenstance at 8:21 PM on February 6, 2010

This doesn't seem to work for me (in Australia on a MacBook).
posted by mr dodo at 8:25 PM on February 6, 2010

nathancaswell, that is so close to haiku, just not quite. How about

Found out about chat
roulette a few weeks ago
it is mostly cocks
posted by zinfandel at 8:43 PM on February 6, 2010 [7 favorites]

Is there a version for people in their later 20's/early 30's? And with some kind of cock filter?
posted by TheyCallItPeace at 9:24 PM on February 6, 2010

Gerald the puppet vs. Chatroulette.

Ok, fuck New York Mag. Evilspork's link gives you everything you need to instantly grok ChatRoulette.
posted by mediareport at 9:29 PM on February 6, 2010

Is there a version for people in their later 20's/early 30's? And with some kind of cock filter?

I believe it is called "Going out to a nice bar/club."

.com
posted by Saxon Kane at 9:42 PM on February 6, 2010 [1 favorite]

Only a matter of time before someone commits a crime on this site.

So is John Hock still in the jug for his antics on Stickam?
posted by PeterMcDermott at 10:15 PM on February 6, 2010

I miss CUSeeMe.
posted by infinitewindow at 11:07 PM on February 6, 2010 [6 favorites]

One of the funniest things I've ever read on the internet was the FYAD thread where people goatse.cxd strangers at random using chatroullete and exposed the unwashed masses to the goatman.
posted by codacorolla at 11:21 PM on February 6, 2010

I mean this: it was like watching someone have an epiphany, but not quite. A moment where they realized some new dimension of bodily horror that they hadn't thought before possible. It was their soul being exposed to the raw animality of humanity, and all of its sweating, lusting, digust. That instance, captured crystalline in a single frame of digital information. And, even more than that, it was the feeling that I had thinking, "I can't believe someone is still surprised by this!" Because even more than their feeling of shock was the moment where I realized the true nature of my apathy. The reach of the corruption (the wisdom) that the internet has given to my soul.

It was all thing past and future delivered at once. Everything, everything, in what that man was doing to his anus.
posted by codacorolla at 11:30 PM on February 6, 2010 [6 favorites]

Mine just says "Connecting..." and never starts. Anyone else having this problem?
posted by rbf1138 at 11:31 PM on February 6, 2010

Yes, I was having that problem earlier, too. I believe we overloaded it.
posted by Houstonian at 12:08 AM on February 7, 2010

The first three that were shown were guys spanking the monkey. No thanks.
posted by swimming naked when the tide goes out at 12:37 AM on February 7, 2010

"The first three that were shown were guys spanking the monkey."

You know, the funny thing is that one day, these guys are going to be out looking for JOBS.

The Internet never forgets....
posted by Afroblanco at 12:52 AM on February 7, 2010

After reading all these comments, it's obvious it ought to be renamed Cock Roulette.
posted by bwg at 1:24 AM on February 7, 2010

A friend of mine, while wearing a v for vendetta mask and a viking hat, managed to get a girl to stick a gummy bear up her nose.

He is awesome.
posted by litleozy at 5:30 AM on February 7, 2010

Those poor monkeys....
posted by wheelieman at 6:04 AM on February 7, 2010

You know, the funny thing is that one day, these guys are going to be out looking for JOBS.

The Internet never forgets....

SCENE ONE ACT ONE - THE FUTURE

"Well Mr. Johnson, may I call you Rod, while your resume is unimpressive and your experience limited, I did come across a tagged video of you mercilessly beating it on camera."

"Oh?"

"And I say if that wasn't the best damned cockswainship I've seen in years. A man with gumption, with moxie, who can hold his own. Rod, I think you'll fit in well here."

"Does that mean I've got the job?"

"Of course! Now let us furiously masturbate in honor of the occasion."
posted by The Whelk at 7:17 AM on February 7, 2010 [13 favorites]

With all the wonderfully anarchic torrent sites out there, would this bit of masking tape (slap!) not be out of place? Ahhh, yes. Back to Web 0.0.
posted by gorgor_balabala at 8:22 AM on February 7, 2010

Am I the only one who saw the French word "chat" smashed up against another, "roulette," only to be disappointed by cock when expecting people dangling their cats in front of their cameras?

i guess so
posted by whatzit at 8:35 AM on February 7, 2010 [2 favorites]

kingsissy was wearing his bathrobe while checking it out the other morning, and got a "naked old guy - awesome!"
....
posted by queensissy at 9:57 AM on February 7, 2010

I turned my camera off and clicked through to see what I got, but I always felt bad about disappointing people by clicking "Next". Maybe if I point the camera at a cat.
posted by subbes at 9:57 AM on February 7, 2010

I once thought that the Internet would be like the Uni-Mind: this vast collective consciousness that would represent the totality of the human mind. And it is that. It's just not what I expected.
posted by SPrintF at 11:31 AM on February 7, 2010 [3 favorites]

Metafilter: what that man was doing to his anus.
posted by hippybear at 11:37 AM on February 7, 2010

O wonder!

How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world! That has such people in't!

That want to call me a fag and show me their genitalia
posted by Sparx at 3:25 PM on February 7, 2010 [1 favorite]

On second though, I probably should not have been eating a popcicle when I clicked "start".
posted by rubah at 3:34 PM on February 7, 2010

I braved it again, and did have a nice chat with a comp-sci student in Scotland, but the signal-to-noise-ratio is completely whack. It shouldn't be hard to institute a filter/rating system for the genuinely chatty vs the people that want to insult you , your orientation and your undersized willy.

Possible MeFi project? I could do with the work!
posted by Sparx at 3:49 PM on February 7, 2010

We filter them into two sites:

Chatfilter and Cockfilter

They can overlap in the discussion boards about rashes.
posted by The Whelk at 4:20 PM on February 7, 2010

That calls it, I'm going out and buying that awesome magnifying glass and old timey pipe and I'm gonna go all sherlock holmes on that site.
posted by Del Far at 4:36 PM on February 7, 2010

I liked the person responding earnestly to questions while wearing a huge Cylon mask. The whole thing is very internet.
posted by The Whelk at 4:48 PM on February 7, 2010

I keep trying to think of things that would be worth doing. Maybe set myself up with a vocoder and have completely normal exchanges with (non-suicide-fakin', non-cock-flauntin') people other than the polyphonic Laurie Anderson patina over my side of the conversation.
posted by cortex at 5:08 PM on February 7, 2010

I fully endorse this product and or service cortex.
posted by The Whelk at 5:11 PM on February 7, 2010

I just had someone hold up Nietzche, Nabokov, and Kafka covers, followed by a request to "show tits" ... I <3 the internet.
posted by Devika at 5:23 PM on February 7, 2010 [1 favorite]

I keep trying to think of things that would be worth doing.

You can get a lot of mileage out of youtube videos.
posted by b1tr0t at 5:27 PM on February 7, 2010

ChatRoulette: Being John Malkovitch does CeilingCat.
posted by b1tr0t at 5:57 PM on February 7, 2010 [2 favorites]

I've got happy paws cat in camtwist and am making a lot of people smile.
posted by mendel at 6:32 PM on February 7, 2010

And here's what people think of happy paws cat.
posted by mendel at 9:57 PM on February 7, 2010

Metafilter: I can not even imagine how lame a social life you would have to have for this to be an even remotely interesting activity.
posted by mikepop at 7:02 AM on February 8, 2010

ChatRoulette = random irc channel hopping crossed with AOL chat and video thrown in.. and about a quarter of the IQ. :p
posted by keptwench at 7:12 AM on February 8, 2010

so,

last night I couldn't sleep. the reason I couldn't sleep is that - out of nowhere - I had come up with all of these horrible horrible things to do to people on chatroulette using camtwist.

a few things I came up with:

-edit a video to stream on chatroulette through camtwist. the video would start with a downloaded clip from an actual porno cam girl's cam show. it would start at about one minute before she starts taking her clothes off. type appropriately flirty/sexy things into the chat box while it's playing so people think she's there typing to them. then, just as the first article of clothing is right about to come off enough to reveal something... the video cuts to one of the parts from 2 girls one cup where they're puking and pooping on one another.

-play a "best of" compilation of scenes from Cannibal Holocaust over and over again. (alternate choice, the pivotal scene in Irreversible, all 9 minutes of it, on loop.)

-a variation of the 1st idea where, instead of cutting to 2 girls 1 cup, it cuts to the scene in Bruno where his dick is being thrust at the camera repeatedly, but on loop so it never stops.

I don't know why I came up with these things. I don't think I would actually want to do them, because they're basically just cruel and awful things to do. I think it might be because of all the stories I was hearing about obnoxious people disconnecting automatically or saying "show tits" to every girl they saw. somewhere, unbeknownst to me, my brain had latched onto the idea of these people being horrified just as they thought they were getting their ideal objectified dream woman on cam.

i think some part of my brain is really fucked up.
posted by shmegegge at 9:26 AM on February 11, 2010

I just popped in for a minute or so to take a firsthand look at the thing. The agenda for that minute:

- blank red screen
- cock, masturbatin'
- cock, masturbatin'
- blank black screen
- guy in a t-shirt and black jeans

Hi, t-shirt-and-black-jeans guy!
posted by cortex at 9:36 AM on February 11, 2010

HI!
posted by shmegegge at 9:43 AM on February 11, 2010

wait, was t-shirt-and-black-jeans guy masturbating? if not, then never mind.
posted by shmegegge at 9:43 AM on February 11, 2010

Those of us who are about to wank salute you.
posted by The Whelk at 9:48 AM on February 11, 2010

I don't know why I came up with these things. I don't think I would actually want to do them, because they're basically just cruel and awful things to do.

It is easy to be cruel, but not much fun. People disconnect fast enough without offensive videos. It is a lot more fun to find stuff that people enjoy, and watch their positive reactions.

Many people like amateur singing and dancing. They probably think the person in the video is actually live.

Almost everyone likes fat people dancing. The more obese and happy, the more people enjoy it. Works for men and women, young and old.

Few people respect TECHNOVIKING, but those who know him, love him.

No one likes Chocolate Rain.

There is far less rickrolling than I expected. Someone should get right on that one.
posted by b1tr0t at 7:34 PM on February 11, 2010

My friend, in the midst of the masturbators and wierdos, got the Jonas Brothers. Swear to God.
posted by mkultra at 7:44 AM on March 3, 2010

Metafilter: In the midst of the masturbators and wierdos
posted by The Whelk at 7:50 AM on March 3, 2010

My friend, in the midst of the masturbators and wierdos, got the Jonas Brothers

That's weird, I wouldn't expect the J Bros to hang out with that kind of crowd, but nothing surprises me these days.
posted by Think_Long at 8:22 AM on March 3, 2010

a movie about chat roulette by casey neistat.
posted by mrgrimm at 9:49 AM on March 3, 2010 [1 favorite]