I think the story they told themselves was basically: Look at this graph! http://i.imgur.com/97fL8.png http://i.imgur.com/97fL8.png ChatRoulette was a rocketshi

I think the story they told themselves was basically: Look at this graph! http://i.imgur.com/97fL8.png http://i.imgur.com/97fL8.png ChatRoulette was a rocketship to the stars, growing as fast as any social site could hope to... then it got filled with dicks, and people stopped using it. We just have to eliminate the dicks and it will be the best thing ever! But that's not really what happened. ChatRoulette was (and still is) popular as a legitimate social site, but it was such a rocketship mainly because it was so shocking. I was living in a college dorm during the time ChatRoulette was going viral, and I remember guys shouting in the hallway, "You have to see all these dicks!" The idea that ChatRoulette was suddenly besieged by dicks, causing it to lose popularity, is just fantasy.