NY Magazine reports that Chatroulette has managed to monetize their most “devoted” users:
The onslaught of disgusting naked men that seemingly destroyed interest in Chatroulette is now earning the site $100,000 a month. After being flagged by other users a certain number of times, the masturbators — there are about 50,000 on the site every day — are automatically redirected to adult pay sites with which Chatroulette has made agreements.
I’m not sure I want to think about where a similar financial agreement might redirect the Balloon Juice trolls.
On a totally different topic, if anyone has any good YouTube links for the upcoming lunar new year (Year of the Rabbit, starting Feb. 3), my email is near the top of the right-hand column. Everything I’ve found so far (mostly through the generosity of the Malaysian television stations) is only going to burnish my reputation for total lamerdom…
Deuce MacInaugh
And I thought finding random masturbating people was the entire point of Chatroulette.
JenJen
I’m likely not the first person to notice this, but DougJ’s email addy is the whip.
In keeping with the Chatroulette theme, this is still the best argument for its existence.
JenJen
Ruh roh, just remembered from the last time we talked about Chit Roolette, tons of comments triggered moderation. Yay! My first FYWP comment of the New Design Era (which rawks, by the way)!
Allen
“I’m not sure I want to think about where a similar financial agreement might redirect the Balloon Juice trolls.”
Red State
Joey Maloney
The Year Of The Rabbit (YouTube, not graphic but subject matter NSFW.)
Amir_Khalid
Lame shit from TV1 and TV2 is only to be expected. Both stations are part of Radio Television Malaysia, and thus are run by civil servants with no imagination whatsoever. TV3, the free-to-air private station, is about the same, and people watch Astro (satellite channels) mostly for the foreign content. That’s why I’d rather spend time teach myself a foreign language, or even come here, than watch Malaysian TV.
JGabriel
Probably something like a Felines vs. Republicans site where violent attacking cats are photoshopped onto pictures of Republicans.
(Pauses. Stares at what I’ve just written.)
Oh, shit. I’m gonna be a millionaire. That is SOOOO gonna make money.
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Ija
@JGabriel:
What about civility? Now they can say “both sides do it”. Oh wait, they are already saying that. Never mind.
PurpleGirl
@JGabriel: Thanks for a morning laugh.
Warren Terra
YouTube clips for the Year Of The Rabbit, eh? YouTube must be chockablock with Bugs Bunny clips. Then there’s Watership Down. Or, of course, this clip.
Remfin
You do realize, Anne Laurie, that Balloon Juice’s most prolific (and I recall at the time, insanely annoying) troll was rewarded with front-page posting rights?
Ija
@Remfin:
Who?
JGabriel
Ija: I think Remfin means DougJ, who probably would have been considered a troll back when John Cole and the majority of his readers were still Republicans.
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Ija
@JGabriel:
In that case, I suppose if John ever swings back, Lorna might be invited as a front pager.
Odie Hugh Manatee
I’m glad that someone is able to profit from the penchant for men to whack their puds for all to see.
Capitalism Baby!!
I was finally able to catch my wife practicing her violin while she was sitting at the pc. She was playing Nothing Else Matters/Metallica and I captured her from behind. It was my second attempt (got busted on the first) and at the end of it she turned and saw me with the camera. I told her I had to do it again and she called me an asshole…lol!
I’ll have to post it on YouTube later today. It’s in 16 bit/mono but still sounds good. Camera work is initially shaky but I was able to stabilize it shortly after starting the camera. She’s an excellent player but very self-conscious and picky about her playing.
AuldBlackJack
Do the teabaggers celebrate the lunar new year?
kdaug
@JGabriel:
Oh, no no no. DougJ was the master of trolls. Unparalleled in his assholishness. A flamethrower with a sniper scope.
It was awesome.
Now he’s just some front pager.
morzer
@Odie Hugh Manatee:
This sounds alarmingly like the ‘cello scene from the Witches of Eastwick. From now on, I shall have to imagine you as Jack Nicholson playing Darryl Van Horne.
THE
One place you could send the poseurs.
mr. whipple
I’m so out of it, I had to google. Wiki says,
“On average in sessions showing a single person, 89% of these were male and 11% were female. 8% of spins showed multiple people behind the camera. 1 in 3 females appeared as such a group. That number is 1 in 12 for males. A user was more likely to encounter a webcam featuring no person at all than one featuring a sole female. 1 in 8 spins yielded possibly objectionable content. A user was twice as likely to encounter a sign requesting female nudity than to encounter actual female nudity.”
Na.gonna.go.there.
Phyllis
I’ll be in Monroe, NC at the end of March for training. Any recommendations on restaurants and local cool places to check out from BJ’ers in the area? Besides The Jesse Helms Center, that is?
Uloborus
I’m pretty sure you’d forward the local trolls to chatroulette.
Uloborus
An ENTIRE THREAD about a topic that’s WP moderation flagged, Anne. That’s sadistic.
JGabriel
@Uloborus: Reminds me of the first time Kain tried to talk about sociaIism.
Edited to Add: Hmm, I guess the old “substitute the lower case L with an upper case i” no longer works with the new font. That kinda sucks.
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Ija
You know, I’m really against s**t shaming. I think it’s a way of controlling female sexuality. But sometimes, part of me thinks that maybe some s**t shaming for guys wouldn’t be such a bad thing. One, they finally get to experience what women experience on a daily basis. But more importantly, it might cut down on the number of men who think people are just dying to see their naked bodies. I’m a hypocrite, I know.
Ija
You know, I’m really against s**t shaming. I think it’s a way of controlling female sexuality. But sometimes, part of me thinks that maybe some s**t shaming for guys wouldn’t be such a bad thing. One, they finally get to experience what women experience on a daily basis. But more importantly, it might cut down on the number of men who think people are just dying to see their naked bodies. I’m a hypocrite, I know.
Edit: Let’s see if not spelling that word keeps it out of moderation. Nope. Is it the word “naked”? “Sexuality”? I’m lost.
Riggsveda
Anne, I sent you an e-mail with a link, but just wanted to put this out there: Massive Attack’s video “Atlas Air”, with incredible animation by Edouard Sailer, is the best rabbit movie ever, with the added benefit of being an attack on the rendition program and those who collude with it. (Short advert first).
Maude
Id the year of the Rabbit going to be like Watership Down and I don’t remember how to spell that and it ruins my little joke and takes away my early morning laughing at my own litttle jokes.
Uloborus
@Maude:
Watership Down takes away all laughter. I don’t want to live through The Year Of Watership Down.
Benjamin Cisco
@Phyllis: Nearby, there’s a Museum of the Waxhaws and Andrew Jackson Memorial, which detail the history of the area and the nation’s 7th President, who was a native.
gogol's wife
Yay! The site looks good in Firefox! I’m no longer a blue bull-monster!
Phyllis
@Benjamin Cisco: Cool. Will definitely check that out. Even though it’s historically incorrect in that Jackson was born in South Carolina. But hey, it’s all good.
Jay C
O RLY? Funny, I thought Balloon Juice was where the masturbating trolls were redirected TO…..!
4jkb4ia
Anne Laurie, the whole righthand column is displaying at the bottom of the page. And the headlines look too huge. Maybe it was meant that way. I am using Safari for Snow Leopard.
4jkb4ia
After posting the comment, it looks nice now. Apology for referring to “Annie Laurie” earlier. Came here via Ordinary Gentlemen link, which might be relevant.
Davis X. Machina
@JGabriel:
Redemption centers, for beer and soda bottles and cans. I expect that’s more our demographic.
donr
It will be the Year of the Cat if you’re Vietnamese….
asiangrrlMN
@Ija: It’s rou lette, I believe. And sluts now get through the filter. With shoes.
@Odie Hugh Manatee: Oh, man. You mentioned that eleven-billionty years ago when I posted on Apocalyptica video. I’m so excited to see it!