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Me, Myself, Some Guy and Wang: Exploring Chat Roulette’s Missouri Section


Posted by The Editor on 19 Jul 2010 /


We’ve related Chat Roulette, the (in)famous site where you video chat with someone randomly, to our local area before when someone figured a way to grab screenshots of people and post them according to their geographic location. That was fun, but we wanted Chat Roulette to do the real thing: Make “local” channels to find random chat buddies.

Recently they did just that. (Here’s the TechCrunch article about the new local channels)

…and we had to try it out. The video before is the screencast of our experience on the Missouri Chat Roulette channel. There weren’t many people in there, but even still I had no problem finding some oddballs. The video, embedded below, is slightly NSFW, but not really since we skillfully edited out anything that wouldn’t be good for your virgin little girl eyes.

In summary, its just like the regular Chat Roulette, but with less people. Same amount of dicks though.

You can make your own “adventure” on the new Missouri Chat Roulette channel (us-mo.chatroulette.com).


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St. Louis Area Chatroulette Users Are Just a Bunch of Dudes


Posted by The Editor on 15 Mar 2010 /


Everyone is all in a tizzy for this month’s internet Macarena: Chat Roulette [1], where you are automatically connected via video chat to a random stranger also using the site.  Which sounds fun, until you realize that this guy is out there.

We hear at Punching Kitty Headquarters have been racking our brains for a way to take the large ChatRoulette user base and strip away anyone not from St. Louis.  You know, to see what St. Louisans where using the site which could be interesting…but thus far we got nothing.  The best thing about the internet though is that eventually someone else will do your homework and post it online. Chatroulette Map gives you a nice little map laid out with users from Chat Roulette and pinpointed by their IP address!  Nerd stuff!

Here’s the upshot: We now have a little peak in to the St. Louis Chat Roulette user!  …sadly, but not surprisingly, its mostly dudes.

A little statistics:

  • We have 9 users that the Chatroulette Map site revealed.
  • 1 out of 9 or 11% was a girl.
  • Another 11% involved a crotch shot.
  • White shirts are popular, as 66% of the users had them on.
  • 77% were not looking at the camera.
  • 88% were riding solo.
  • Only 11% of them were from Illinois. Sadly the crotch shot guy was not from Illinois.


1 If you are really in the dark to what Chat Roulette is, this video is the best way to get up to speed quickly.