Back in the day, my friends and I would often band together for drinking games. Our safe favourites were always ‘Never Have I Ever’ and ‘Kings Cup’. After playing these games on rotation for five years, shit got boring, sex-orientated and predictable. However, things took a positive turn when we discovered the joys of Chat Roulette.

 

For those who are not aware of what Chat Roulette is, Wikipedia describes it as  “a free online chat website that pairs random people around the world together for webcam-based conversations. Visitors of the website begin an online chat (text, audio, and video) with another visitor. At any point, either user may leave the current chat by initiating another random connection.”

 

Wikipedia’s definition (to me) seems like a watered-down, G-rated version of one of the internet’s dirty and dark corners. Chat Roulette was basically a platform for sickos who wanted to rock out with their cocks out and exhibit their ‘creations’ from god.

 

Often about 15-20 of us at a party would gather around the computer. The girls were in the foreground of the camera, while the guys remained hidden in the back for jokes later in the conversations. From there, the guys would communicate to us what to say. I’m not going to lie, after a few drinks shit really did get cray! 

 

Occasionally we’d put make up on the guys and do a clothes swap for shits and giggles, which would often end in hysterical laughter amongst the group. One of my favourites was when the guys would call out motivation to the sickos having a wank on screen, yelling at them to “tug harder”, “you can do it” and “I’ve seen better!” What compels these guys to display their god’s creation on screen, I don’t know. But it did make for a lot of laughter.

 

A few years later, I wanted to share this fun with a new group of friends. I jumped on the website while explaining to the group what it was and how hilarious it is! After five minutes of loading the page (yes, that long), an error dialogue appeared to say the website no longer existed. I shed a tear, questioned how life could go on and apologised to my new friends that the party was over and it was time to go home.

 

I still think about Chat Roulette today: the what-ifs, the why’s, how life would be different if it still existed today. I think about other means to fill that missing void. It wasn’t until continuously swiping left on Tinder that I was looking through some random guy’s photos when a dick pic presented itself. BINGO! It was then that Tinder presented itself to me as my new Chat Roulette. Why a guy would put a dick pic on the dating app, I don’t know.

 

From that moment I knew Tinder had the potential to fill the void left by Chat Roulette. And while Tinder may be a bit more tame than Chat Roulette I’ve found a way to make it just as fun!