Comment by MilnerRoute
6 years ago
Singer Ben Folds once did this during a huge concert. So random people looking for a video chat would suddenly see a man on a stage in front of a huge audience...singing a song about them. ("Hello Mr. Shirtless Man. How are you doin' today? Is it hot in there...?")
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.
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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
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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.
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* 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.
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Yea, discord can detect dicks. I'm guessing that the hotdog/no hotdog algorithm is advanced enough by now.
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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.
The concert(s) in question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhJyX08GecU
In this vein, Steve Kardynal did a chat roulette performance of Miley Cyrus’s “Wrecking Ball.”
The editing is very good: https://youtu.be/W6DmHGYy_xk
I feel that this is a violation of trust. A lot of users are there to talk to another person, they're not necessarily ready or willing to be shirtless in front of tens of thousands of people. If I was on a jury and there was a lawsuit, I would award damages.
Isn't showing up shirtless to a video chat with a stranger a huge violation of trust in itself? I'd be much more inclined to consider "shirtlessness" (to give this phenomenon a short name) to be a sign of aggression, rather than of innocence and of trust in others.
They're clearly OK with exposing themselves to strangers because that's the reason they're doing it. How does the number of strangers matter? If they were shy, they could have put their shirt on before going out in public.
So if you flash me on the subway and I take a photo of it to share... I am violating your trust?!
The other stranger did not consent to being situation where the rando was shirtless, though.
Them being shirtless without telling the other person in advance, is harm that theyd be causing in the first place.
Consent was given implicitly by browsing chatroulette. Or so is the mainstream rhetoric used for third party cookies "consent".
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What would the lawsuit be for?
This is why we can't have nice things :(