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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.
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
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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.
Maybe it just normalized to be only "normies", and normal people just happen to really like dongs, even if unspoken?
I made a similar site as part of a hackathon at Twitch: https://twitchraids.com The idea is to raid random channels together with everyone on the site. Channels are randomly selected and rotate every 5 minutes, and the channel selection function gives preference to smaller streamers. Users vote on which channel to raid next.
This is interesting because you can incentivise people to go to other streams by offering them multipliers for every raid they join (or something). You'd have a network of people who are watching ads for the chance of having their ad watched!
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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.
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.
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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.
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It's pretty common, I do it (shameless plug https://www.twitch.tv/nickbusey ) My stream setup is open source on GitLab https://gitlab.com/NickBusey/CodingStream Here's an article I used in my early days to help get going https://medium.com/@suzhinton/my-twitch-live-coding-setup-b2...
I realize it wasn’t yours, but that’s a really good write up! Thanks for sharing. I’ve considered doing counting like this before but didn’t really know where to get started.
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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.
Maybe it just normalized to be only "normies", and normal people just happen to really like dongs, even if unspoken?
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Which TwitchCon did you go to? I had the exact same idea but my team ended up going with something else. It's cool that you ended up actually hosting it after the hackathon ended. Do you know how many people are still using it?
I actually made the site during an internal Twitch hackathon about 2 years ago. The site shows the current number of viewers on the site.
This was a cool site, I remember it but didn't realize it was you who wrote it.
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I remember quite a while back, Chat Roulette song improv was a big thing. It was the guy in the hoodie - PianoChatImprov on Youtube. I just looked it up and, wow, that was 10 years ago. This was also before Chat Roulette became nothing but dongs.
the question is, would it be possible to implement something like that in a way where dong shows don't take over? What is it exactly that turned chat roulette into that?
Nowadays it would probably be easier than ever to detect certain shapes? I don’t know, we have artificial intelligence that can detect all sorts of things, male genitalia probably that hard to detect.
Great concept for the winner take all world we live in now. It's very difficult to get your name out there in anything these days without having to invest a lot in marketing yourself.
You act like this wasn't always true or that celebrity never existed.