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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.

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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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Not Hotdog

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

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