I went on omegle not too long ago actually and the thing I remember was that the text version of the website was inundated with bots.
You had to skip through maybe 10-15 bots before you would find that one real person, and even then it was hit or miss whether they would actually want to stay and have a conversation.
Another thing: the constant “asl” as the top of every conversation; it’s like people were trying to use it as a hook-up / dating / sexting app rather than it’s actual purpose of connecting with people from around the world. I think that mission got lost somewhere.
The mission never got lost. It’s just become popular and thus attracted the average person, and most people do not care about “connecting with people” in the way that you maybe do. Has nothing to do with the site itself really.
Wow, AOL is still a thing? … Maybe I never left. Maybe I’ve just been lost in AOL’s little… channel things, or whatever they were, for the past couple of decades. Please, somecritter come find me and get me out of here 🙀
Or maybe we’re all stuck in there. Maybe the real AOL is the average bellend doing the same vapid shite every day and every night. Maybe it never ends because people never change, as a mass, as the same mess they’ve always been.
Wooooah, trippy. Anyway I think I just kinda showerthoughtsed myself into rediscovering Eternal September, or at least kinda pondering the concept aloud.
I went on omegle not too long ago actually and the thing I remember was that the text version of the website was inundated with bots.
You had to skip through maybe 10-15 bots before you would find that one real person, and even then it was hit or miss whether they would actually want to stay and have a conversation.
Another thing: the constant “asl” as the top of every conversation; it’s like people were trying to use it as a hook-up / dating / sexting app rather than it’s actual purpose of connecting with people from around the world. I think that mission got lost somewhere.
The mission never got lost. It’s just become popular and thus attracted the average person, and most people do not care about “connecting with people” in the way that you maybe do. Has nothing to do with the site itself really.
Wow, AOL is still a thing? … Maybe I never left. Maybe I’ve just been lost in AOL’s little… channel things, or whatever they were, for the past couple of decades. Please, somecritter come find me and get me out of here 🙀
Or maybe we’re all stuck in there. Maybe the real AOL is the average bellend doing the same vapid shite every day and every night. Maybe it never ends because people never change, as a mass, as the same mess they’ve always been.
Wooooah, trippy. Anyway I think I just kinda showerthoughtsed myself into rediscovering Eternal September, or at least kinda pondering the concept aloud.
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asl goes way back to the nineties irc chatrooms. It was never a problem back then.
So many bots they spam their shit and leave for yet another bot to do the same they could have had a capcha or something to slow them down
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