Agreed. Very well written. Clearly Leif is a person that should be a leader in the communication space. Its such a shame that we’re losing him to this fight. :(
That’s really sad and disappointing. I was never really into Omegle; I knew it was around for a long time, but it was too sketchy for me to want to browse it myself. However, during the COVID lockdown I discovered a new genre of YouTube videos that I gained a fascination with: VRChat Omegle. The YouTuber(s) (sometimes multiple) would get together in vrchat and setup a virtual camera that would interface with Omegle like a normal webcam. The result was entertaining, especially when it came to furry YouTubers.
In some ways it’d get kinda stale because 90% of the reactions would be, “whoa, how are you doing that bro???” but it was still entertaining nevertheless. Even people the people who hate furries had to stop and ask questions like, “bro, is that an instagram filter bro?” or “wait… Is that… REAL???” It was particularly interesting when they’d occasionally get someone who knew how to execute man-in-the-middle attacks to fuck with the people on both ends (it seemed to be innocent trolling most of the time, though I’m sure there were bad actors doing it as well).
Wow. I wonder what Frank Tedesco will say. Many of his popular videos on YouTube were of surprising random Omegle people with his relative pitch ability to play anything on the piano.
I know he works on multiple platforms (YouTube, twitch, TikTok), so he’s at least covered with those, but his use of Omegle was fun and interesting.
That’s sad. I’m sorry for the girl and others who got molested over the internet but I don’t really see that as the sites fault. How about poor parental supervision? Just let an 11 year old use the internet with free reign and don’t notice when she’s sending a pedo photos for 3 years?
Video to video chat with strangers, no age verification of any sort other than checkbox, half the videos are literally just sweaty men beating off, and that’s just the “safe” side. The “adult” side, which was directly affiliated with some sketch-ass cam site(s?), was 99% sweaty men beating off.
There was no shortage of entertaining strangers with guitars etc, but you have to wade through the Sea of Cocks with your bare hands, to get to it.
Of course, there’s tons of super young kids on there also.
A bunch of people started using it more after covid, and they all got desensitized to the cocks, and forgot how to human so well, and they are apparently swarming all over the place here. They want thier entertainment and they don’t care what the kids are being exposed to.
There’s several law firms that specialize in claims for victims of abuse on Omegle. It’s a fucking awesome thing that it got shut down. Full stop.
Thanks, I remember when these anonymous video chat sites popped up (I forget the names of the others) and that’s pretty much what they all turned into (dudes beating off).
Chatroulette used to be the safer alternative and showed that you CAN do a better job of moderating, however, they didn’t have the additional affiliate income omegle had, and I’m not sure if they survived. That one never had the popularity that Omegle had, that I heard of at least.
I’m glad all these wankers are making themselves known at least. My blocked list is getting pretty bloated.
I was thinking about Harry Mack, too. He just posted his 100th Omegle Bars video 5 days ago and said he was going to take a break from the series for a while.
I was a weird 16 year old, staying up too late on summer vacation of 2011. I had decided that asking people their favorite dinosaur was the ultimate conversation starter, and had a working theory that the more unusual their answer was, the more interesting the conversation would be. People who said “T-Rex” were lame, but “Iguanadon” would be cool, something like that.
Well, she said “Pachycephalosaurus”, which was the first one of the night I had to look up. Naturally, I was enthralled.
We talked into the wee hours of the morning, where she (being a fellow dumb teenager) sent me her Facebook profile. Before clicking, I had decided that I would look but ultimately not accept her friend request, because stranger danger and all. But when I checked out her page, it turned out we had a mutual friend! A guy we both knew had started high school with her, and moved up the coast halfway through and was currently going to my high school.
That was good enough for me, and I accepted her friend request. July 7th, 2011, around 3am.
From there, we quickly turned flirty and started talking all the time. We weren’t anything official, but I told her I loved her within a couple weeks. One problem though: she was over 400 miles away, and I was still in school with no license.
To make a long story short, we were flirty on and off for the next three years until 2014, where we both decided “fuck it” and jumped into the special hell that is long distance dating together. I got to see her in person December 14th of that year after working at a grocery store while finishing up my associate’s degree to make enough money for a train ticket, and she was my first kiss.
Anyway, college sucked and long distance dating sucks even when it’s the right person. Fast-forward to 2020 when I finally have a car & some degree of financial stability, I moved 400 miles away to live with her & haven’t looked back. Put a ring on her finger March of 2021, and married her on the beach last weekend after knowing her for twelve years. She is currently snoring gracefully in bed next to me. 🥰
I’ve used it a few times when I was bored and had some random conversations about different topics. I didn’t really like the format to be completely honest. I’d rather use reddit and other platform’s like these.
While this is not for me it sucks that people that abuse these services are a big part of why they are shutting down. It sounds to me like they where actively in contact with law enforcement to battle crimes that where commited there and kudos for that!
Noooo! I was just on Omegle talking to strangers from around the world last week! I used it occasionally for a decade and had a lot of fun talking to people. This hurts.
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