{"id":1293,"date":"2023-11-09T22:07:11","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T19:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/viewabreast.com\/kracer\/?p=1293"},"modified":"2023-11-09T22:07:15","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T19:07:15","slug":"video-website-omegle-shut-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/viewabreast.com\/kracer\/social-media\/video-website-omegle-shut-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Omegle, Popular Video Chatting Website Shuts Down"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-x-large-font-size\"><strong>Omegle has Shut Down, what now?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:30px\">The most popular <strong>video chatting one-to-one website<\/strong>, <strong>Omegle<\/strong>, has shut down today leaving many people <strong>disappointed and sad<\/strong>, but the reality of the sudden shutdown is much <strong>darker <\/strong>than anyone can think. The <a href=\"https:\/\/omegle.com\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/omegle.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">official website<\/a> is now displaying a gravestone image representing the lifespan of <strong>Omegle <\/strong>from <strong>2009 to 2023<\/strong> and a huge message from the founder of <strong>Omegle.com LLC, Leif K-Brooks<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1018\" height=\"829\" src=\"https:\/\/viewabreast.com\/kracer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-09-195259.png\" alt=\"Omegle Shut Down 2023 Message Founder LLC Omegle TV .com\" class=\"wp-image-1298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/viewabreast.com\/kracer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-09-195259.png 1018w, https:\/\/viewabreast.com\/kracer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-09-195259-300x244.png 300w, https:\/\/viewabreast.com\/kracer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-09-195259-768x625.png 768w, https:\/\/viewabreast.com\/kracer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-09-195259-600x489.png 600w, https:\/\/viewabreast.com\/kracer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-09-195259-74x60.png 74w, https:\/\/viewabreast.com\/kracer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-09-195259-111x90.png 111w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1018px) 100vw, 1018px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A part of the message from the founder, Leif K-Brooks, Omegle.com LLC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-9038097186262685\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\"\r\n     data-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-9038097186262685\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"5805792229\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:30px\">In this huge message to the <strong>community<\/strong>, he expresses his life on the <strong>internet <\/strong>and how he started when he was <strong>very young<\/strong>. In the <strong>message<\/strong>, his passion for <strong>software development<\/strong> is mentioned while he was in college and how the idea of <strong>Omegle <\/strong>came to his mind, a <strong>one-to-one chatting<\/strong> website, a simple, yet interesting idea, all for <strong>free<\/strong>. Leif launched <strong>Omegle.com<\/strong> when he was only <strong>18 years old<\/strong> while still living with his parents because of his love for <strong>software development<\/strong> in general. His idea of how the internet worked was truly different than one of an <strong>&#8220;average user&#8221;<\/strong>. <strong>Omegle <\/strong>was released with no funding while living with his parents in <strong>Vermont<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"115\" src=\"https:\/\/viewabreast.com\/kracer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-09-200032.png\" alt=\"Omegle Shuts Down Leif K-Brooks Omegle TV LLC .com Message Shutdown\" class=\"wp-image-1300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/viewabreast.com\/kracer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-09-200032.png 1000w, https:\/\/viewabreast.com\/kracer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-09-200032-300x35.png 300w, https:\/\/viewabreast.com\/kracer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-09-200032-768x88.png 768w, https:\/\/viewabreast.com\/kracer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-09-200032-600x69.png 600w, https:\/\/viewabreast.com\/kracer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-09-200032-190x22.png 190w, https:\/\/viewabreast.com\/kracer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-09-200032-750x86.png 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A part from the message where Leif writes about his status on Omegle&#8217;s development and campaign budget.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:30px\">While building and updating <strong>Omegle <\/strong>over the years of its activity, <strong>Leif <\/strong>realized the malicious way his website could be used against other people by <strong>criminals <\/strong>and other <strong>individuals <\/strong>so a <strong>team of great moderators<\/strong> was hired to fight against this type of <strong>illegitimate activity<\/strong> as well as a very well trained <strong>AI <\/strong>that can detect different type of<strong> illegal video material<\/strong> that can be shown\/distributed on the website which are against the <strong>policy and TOS<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-9038097186262685\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\"\r\n     data-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-9038097186262685\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"5805792229\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-x-large-font-size\"><strong>The Read Problem and Reason with Omegle<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:30px\">This is indeed a big issue that has been going on <strong>Omegle <\/strong>for many years. In the past year, there have been over <strong>50 cases<\/strong> of <strong>illegal activities<\/strong> with underage people taking place directly on the <strong>website<\/strong>. This placed a huge amount of pressure on the <strong>website&#8217;s management<\/strong> including the <strong>founder and owner, Leif K-Brooks<\/strong>, mentioning in the message how he had to deal with imaginable counts of <strong>criminal activity<\/strong> that he never thought that he would ever see on his <strong>website <\/strong>this being the main reason why the <strong>website <\/strong>was <strong>shut down<\/strong>. <strong>Authorities <\/strong>in many <strong>countries and territories<\/strong> were &#8220;breathing down&#8221; on Leif&#8217;s neck and company, <strong>Omegle.com LLC<\/strong>, for the many counts implicating underage users on the <strong>website<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"958\" height=\"634\" src=\"https:\/\/viewabreast.com\/kracer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-09-201118.png\" alt=\"Omegle Shuts Down Due to Underage User Illegal Acts on The Website\" class=\"wp-image-1302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/viewabreast.com\/kracer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-09-201118.png 958w, https:\/\/viewabreast.com\/kracer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-09-201118-300x199.png 300w, https:\/\/viewabreast.com\/kracer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-09-201118-768x508.png 768w, https:\/\/viewabreast.com\/kracer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-09-201118-600x397.png 600w, https:\/\/viewabreast.com\/kracer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-09-201118-91x60.png 91w, https:\/\/viewabreast.com\/kracer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-09-201118-136x90.png 136w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 958px) 100vw, 958px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:30px\">Although this is not the only <strong>website <\/strong>of this kind, it is clearly the most popular and this activity should not be <strong>tolerated <\/strong>anywhere, no matter the place, it is <strong>incredibly inhumane and disgusting<\/strong>. We believe that <strong>authorities <\/strong>are not doing enough in order to protect <strong>children <\/strong>from these activities and the easy-to-fall <strong>traps <\/strong>that happen <strong>online <\/strong>every day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-9038097186262685\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\"\r\n     data-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-9038097186262685\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"5805792229\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"831\" height=\"597\" src=\"https:\/\/viewabreast.com\/kracer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-09-205209.png\" alt=\"Omegle Website Shut Down 2023 Message from Founder\" class=\"wp-image-1305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/viewabreast.com\/kracer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-09-205209.png 831w, https:\/\/viewabreast.com\/kracer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-09-205209-300x216.png 300w, https:\/\/viewabreast.com\/kracer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-09-205209-768x552.png 768w, https:\/\/viewabreast.com\/kracer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-09-205209-600x431.png 600w, https:\/\/viewabreast.com\/kracer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-09-205209-84x60.png 84w, https:\/\/viewabreast.com\/kracer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-09-205209-125x90.png 125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 831px) 100vw, 831px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:30px\">On the <strong>Omegle <\/strong>webpage, in <strong>Leif&#8217;s message<\/strong>, he mentioned that the internet is becoming some sort of passive <strong>TV entertainment<\/strong>, meaning that people\/users are not interacting with each other as much as they used to be, and instead, most <strong>entertainment<\/strong> providers focus on <strong>screening <\/strong>that doesn&#8217;t involve much activity from the public, instead, users just have to watch instead of <strong>interacting <\/strong>with the <strong>show<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-x-large-font-size\"><strong>The End for Omegle.com<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:30px\">It is clear enough that this is the end for <strong>Omegle<\/strong>, it will most likely never come back, but there are many other very similar <strong>alternatives <\/strong>that offer the same <strong>features<\/strong>. This <strong>website <\/strong>was a huge part of the <strong>internet <\/strong>having over <strong>70+ Million page views every month<\/strong> which is <strong>insanely high<\/strong> for a simple concept like this from such a little <strong>company <\/strong>with very little to offer. Make sure you stay <strong>safe<\/strong> out there no matter if you are trying to find a better alternative or just fully stopped and remember: <strong>Keep gaming!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:30px\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/viewabreast.com\/kracer\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/viewabreast.com\/kracer\">Make sure you check out our store! Click here!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:42px\"><strong>More about Social Media from Kracer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-posts kb-posts kb-posts-id-_170d93-7b content-wrap grid-cols kb-posts-style-boxed grid-sm-col-2 grid-lg-col-2 item-image-style-above\"><article class=\"entry content-bg loop-entry post-1293 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-social-media\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"post-thumbnail kadence-thumbnail-ratio-2-3\" href=\"https:\/\/viewabreast.com\/kracer\/social-media\/video-website-omegle-shut-down\/\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"post-thumbnail-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/viewabreast.com\/kracer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/gravestone-768x768.png\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Omegle Shuts Down 2023\" srcset=\"https:\/\/viewabreast.com\/kracer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/gravestone-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/viewabreast.com\/kracer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/gravestone-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/viewabreast.com\/kracer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/gravestone-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/viewabreast.com\/kracer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/gravestone-600x600.png 600w, https:\/\/viewabreast.com\/kracer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/gravestone-100x100.png 100w, https:\/\/viewabreast.com\/kracer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/gravestone-60x60.png 60w, https:\/\/viewabreast.com\/kracer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/gravestone-90x90.png 90w, https:\/\/viewabreast.com\/kracer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/gravestone.png 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a><!-- .post-thumbnail -->\n\t\t\t<div class=\"entry-content-wrap\">\n\t\t<header class=\"entry-header\">\n\t\t<div class=\"entry-taxonomies\">\n\t\t<span class=\"category-links term-links category-style-normal\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/viewabreast.com\/kracer\/category\/social-media\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Social Media<\/a>\t\t<\/span>\n\t<\/div><!-- .entry-taxonomies -->\n\t<h2 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/viewabreast.com\/kracer\/social-media\/video-website-omegle-shut-down\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Omegle, Popular Video Chatting Website Shuts Down<\/a><\/h2>\t<div class=\"entry-meta entry-meta-divider-dot\">\n\t<span class=\"posted-by\"><span class=\"meta-label\">By<\/span><span class=\"author vcard\"><span class=\"fn n\">Kracer<\/span><\/span><\/span>\t\t\t<span class=\"posted-on\">\n\t\t\t\t<time class=\"entry-date published\" datetime=\"2023-11-09T22:07:11+03:00\">November 9, 2023<\/time><time class=\"updated\" datetime=\"2023-11-09T22:07:15+03:00\">November 9, 2023<\/time>\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .entry-meta -->\n\t<\/header><!-- .entry-header -->\n\t<div class=\"entry-summary\">\n\t\t<p>Omegle has Shut Down, what now? The most popular video chatting one-to-one website, Omegle, has shut down today leaving many people disappointed and sad, but the reality of the sudden shutdown is much darker than anyone can think. 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The most popular video chatting one-to-one website, Omegle, has shut down today leaving many people disappointed and sad, but the reality of the sudden shutdown is much darker than anyone can think. 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