[geddy]

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.

[Nursie]

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.

[toyg]

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.

[stronglikedan]

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

[tjr225]

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

[rexpop]

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

[trianglem]

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

[TeMPOraL]

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

[recursive]

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.

[sullyj3]

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

[throwaway13337]

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.

[enjo]

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.

[artursapek]

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

[glasenator]

Not Hotdog

[kripy]

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

[beshrkayali]

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?

[OJFord]

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

Being on the internet?

[geddy]

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.

[tripzilch]

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

[dec0dedab0de]

* 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.

[strombofulous]

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

[thatcat]

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

[chipperyman573]

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

[thatcat]

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.

[seph-reed]

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.

[optimiz3]

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