Did they really think that taking Chatroulette and making it a super invasive fb app to minimize the amount of penises was the next big idea?
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.
I just loaded the site and I can see 52,000 people online.
But I still don't think chatroulette or a chatroulette derivative is the next big idea.