‘Omegle is no longer sustainable, financially nor psychologically,’ its founder says.
Omegle, which randomly paired up people for video-based chats, is pulling the plug.
“Operating Omegle is no longer sustainable, financially nor psychologically,” founder Leif K-Brooks writes in a lengthy goodbye post.
The site dates back to 2009 when K-Brooks looked to introduce “a form of social spontaneity that I felt didn’t exist elsewhere,” he says. “Omegle was meant to be a way of strolling down a street in that village, striking up conversations with the people you ran into along the way.”
Unfortunately, some of those people on the virtual road had bad intentions.
