BEATS AND BEATS: NURSES Supplies Chat Roulette Masturbation Soundtrack [Plus: new video for the song"Winter", Tour Dates, & More]
April 14, 2010 in Music, Technology, The Web, With Video
Chatroulette.com is one of the latest in an endless series of internet phenomena that seemingly come from no where and blow up overnight, like a seagull with Alka-seltzer. A 17 yr old, high-school kid from Moscow named, Andrey Ternovskiy only created the site in November and it’s already HUUUGE! It was at least a couple of months ago when I first heard about the website, but have still never actually used it. My immediate understanding was that it was a live chat site with video that randomly generates connections to strangers of which to communicate. That is basically correct… basically. The concept behind the site never compelled me to use that service and so I never have. Since my first knowledge of Chatroulette, I gradually became aware of 2 things relating to the site. The first was that is was more than a little start-up concept, it was already a household name. More and more, I noticed that everybody I knew had heard of and/or used it. Through the many comments from those of them who had tried the service, I discovered my second piece truth of the burgeoning movement: a large percentage of the patronage is made up of men cold-stroking their shafts on web cam. A recent episode of South Park reinforced all of these ideas behind Chatroulette: it’s become a huge worldwide trend, it’s full of grimy-as fools jacking off on display and, consequently, I still have no real desire to use their “service”. I only recently got my first glimpse of what really goes down on the site in a non-animated format, when the Portland, Oregon-based band, NURSES decided to broadcast a live performance over on the site via webcam. Unfortunately or otherwise, their footage does nothing to suppress the idea that’s it’s a forum for public masturbation. Read the rest of this entry →
