Chatroulette

Chatroulette is a website similar to Omegle. The only difference is webcams are required unlike Omegle where they are optional. It rose to fame on CE when it was posted in the early days.

History
In the beginning webcams were not required, just recommended. However as the site grew, they became required. When it was first posted on CE, it had just been launched and it was not known outside of CE. Around this time there were only up to 50-100 users at any given time, and most were CEtizens. It soon spread to 4chan.org among other websites such as EncyclopediaDramatica and it became notorious for the absurd amount of human genitals, trolls and men who disconnected right when they saw you were a man as well. It grew in popularity to 2000 people at a time, to 10,000 people at a time to around 40,000 people at any time, far surpassing Omegle's usual 3000 people at a time. Soon Omegle however decided to add video chat to get that many users, but it only rose their usual amount of users to about 7000 at any given time failing to gain Chatroulette's notoriety along with other spin-off websites.

A Chatroulette room exclusively for CE users was made around this time at http://currentevents.chatroulette.com/ but it is only active when a topic calls for people to go there.

It soon became harder to understand, nearly impossible to find any CEtizens, and requiring about 50 shuffles before getting an actual conversation. Around this time Manycam became a popular software to disguise yourself as a woman, though anybody with an IQ over 25 can tell when they are real or not. The easiest way is to tell them to "wave to the camera if you are real".

The future of Chatroulette
Recently, Chatroulette has worked on adding penis detecting software that will filter out any unwanted genitals. Some of CE claim this will ruin Chatroulette as the inappropriate content is what makes Chatroulette what it is. Others others say it will help out and fix it. Others say it won't do anything as there are other ways to troll and people will find a way to bypass it.

Reception


Chatroulette has gotten so infamous for the large amount of inappropriate content that it was featured in an episode of South Park, much to the delight of some CEtizens.

If you are flagged 3 times in 5 minutes you are blocked from using the website for 40 minutes, leading you to have to use a proxy server to get on. Some CEtizens have complained about people abusing the report button leading them to be blocked for no reason.

Many claim Chatroulette has grown too large and simply isn't enjoyable anymore because of the massive size.