ChatRoulette Adventures

Last night I decided to check out ChatRoulette. I had heard about it as some new popular thing to do to waste time, but I had no idea what it actually was so I googled it and read the wikipedia entry. It sounded kind of scary, like speed dating, but for the whole world. I felt like I should get dressed up for it, but it was late, and nothing and no one was going to get me out of my bed and pjs. Maybe some other time.

But then I found this awesome video.

chat roulette from Casey Neistat on Vimeo.

I’m kind of excited. I used to throw potlucks for strangers to meet, and now you can talk to strangers face to face all over the world in your pajamas. How thrilling! I was convinced. I had to try it.

ChatRoulette is kind of like the multiverse, except that half of the multiverse is just perverts. You press Next and show up in a new world, with no idea what will happen, or what the rules are, or what kind of penis you’re going to see. One guy looked like a totally nice normal middle aged man wearing a Cosby sweater for two seconds, before he stood up to take off his pants. There were a couple “show me your tits. I’m having a contest” signs. Most people were like me, sitting in bed or at a desk, and just fishing the multiverse.

Then we met Chewbacca. He grunted, groaned, smoked a spliff, and overall seemed pretty mellow and nice.

We told the guy in Shanghai we talked to after about it, and he thought it was pretty funny…

 

We even happened on this Super ChatRoulette party, were some guy had 8 people on the screen, all hanging out.

After a while, my polar bear, William wanted to play, so we set him up to see what he could see.

He met a very nice kitty, but ended up getting splooged on.

Overall, I would say ChatRoulette is fascinating. A place where all social norms are slightly skewed, and people do strange things they would only do on the internet. I’m excited to get a costume and really freak some people out.