Casey Neistat on Chatroulette: 'Boys, Girls and Perverts'

Chatroulette: 14% perverts on a Thursday afternoon

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Chatroulette: 14% Perverts

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Casey Neistat made an instructional video for those unfamiliar with chatroulette. Chatroulette is a site which connects you to a random stranger via webcam. In theory, chatroulette will introduce you to interesting people all around the world. In reality, it connects you with shut-ins, perverts, and goatse. Indeed, Casey Neistat broke down his Thursday-afternoon chatroulette session into:

• 71% Boys
• 15% Girls
• 14% Perverts

Chatroulette vernacular

The best part (for me, a non-user) was the vernacular. For example, Nexted: when a stranger disconnects immediately after seeing what you look like. If memory serves, that's the name of an MTV reality show, where a single person decides whether or not to date someone based on meeting them for a very short amount of time, sometimes less than a minute.

Neistat says, "The majority of my time on Chatroulette is spent having people choose not to talk to me."

But why?

Personally, I don't find Chatroulette very appealing. I deal with strangers on the Internet all day, every day. No offense, but I don't really want to carry on doing so in my free time: that's when I get to talk to people face to face.

chat roulette from Casey Neistat on Vimeo.