Omegle
www.omegle.com
  • loobkoob@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    Well I’m just glad Harry Mack managed to release his 100th episode of “Omegle Bars” this week. He decided to take a break from doing Omegle-based content at the right time, it seems.

    For anyone who doesn’t know, Harry Mack’s a freestyle rapper. He has (had) a series where he’d ask strangers on Omegle to give him a handful of words and then create a full song out of them on the fly. And not just saying those words then immediately moving on like most freestyle rappers do; he actually creates entire verses on the topics he’s given and really raps around them. Plus he’d be calling out things the people were doing as they react to him, responding to things they say, mentioning things he can see in the room, etc, as he raps.

    Here’s one of his freestyles that’s really stuck with me ever since I first saw it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehcA4zCeaPI

    He takes what are some fairly negative, “cry for help” words from the girls and turns them into a really beautiful, positive rap overall. He’s a very positive guy in general, and I’ve watched him consistently since I discovered him. Binging his videos got me through a breakup, in fact.

    My own experiences with Omegle have either been penises or just bland, and it’s not something I’ve used for many years as a result. But videos like Harry Mack’s show what wonderful things could come from it and I do think it’s a huge shame it’s gone. It feels like another part of the old internet’s gone, and that we’re moving even closer to the sanitised, heavily-monetised internet run by megacorporations. I hate that.

  • Feyter@programming.dev
    1·
    1 year ago

    Can someone explain in short what problem people had about Omegle?

    Was it that you can say things (and show things) there to a random person without any good possibility to trace it back to you because it’s anonymous and more “temporary” then something like Lemmy for example?

    Or was it just a witch hunt without any real reasonable structure?

        • SaakoPaahtaa@lemmy.world
          0·
          1 year ago

          It’s crazy to sometimes stop to think about how many nice things we could have if it wasn’t for pedophiles. Not a joke either, actually give it some thought.

          • body_by_make@lemmy.dbzer0.com
            1·
            1 year ago

            A lot of people also use pedophiles as a basis for their nefarious plans. “Protect the children” is a rallying cry of the alt right, despite how many child rapists exist in the cult.

  • leanleft@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    7 months ago

    similar to craigslist personals.
    and look how much better the world is now. /sarcasm

    • UraniumBlazer@lemm.eeEnglish
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      1 year ago

      U r aware that until e2ee and online anonymity exists, pedos WILL be active online? Forget e2ee. Every social network (including Lemmy, Matrix, Mastodon) has an active pedo userbase.

      There is absolutely no way to completely censor pedos. Hence, the only thing that we can do is educate children about consensual sex, rape, etc… Basically something like a vaccination against sexual assault. It wouldn’t work every time, but it would at least statistically reduce the probability of child sexual abuse. Unfortunately, this is all that we can do.

    • PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml
      04·
      1 year ago

      Alright I’ll bite. How does an anonymous video chat website become a pedophile streaming website? Was there a specific event or what?

        • PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml
          04·
          1 year ago

          So because minors can use the service, it’s a pedophile service? Is the internet a pedophile service too? There isn’t any age requirement or verification to use it. Should it be shut down as well?

          I don’t see why a website should be required to make sure their users follow the law.

            • canni@lemmy.one
              0·
              1 year ago

              Minors have used Omegle for only one purpose

              Are you sure it isn’t you using it for just one purpose??

            • Muehe@lemmy.ml
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              1 year ago

              Minors can use most of the internet safely.

              I beg to differ. Minors can’t safely use the internet at all, it’s the internet. Every depth of the human psyche is mirrored onto it, and frankly any guardian letting a child onto it without at the minimum strong primers on its dangers is derilict of their duty. Which might have been excusable 20-30 years ago when everybody was confused about what the internet even is, but not so much in 2023.

              If you make another deranged argument like that, you will get the banhammer.

              Just for clarity, I’m not the person you said this to, but I think if you are out here threatening people with bans over a rhetorical question, you might want to take a break. Nevermind the disconnect between you saying you haven’t used it at all but purpoting to know exactly what kind of “content” was on it these last years, when it didn’t even really have content in the usual sense of the word.