[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.