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Goodbye Omegle: how the anonymous chatroom traumatized our teen years

The Guardian

By Emma Loffhagen

November 15, 2023

It was usually only a matter of minutes before we’d see the first penis. As we huddled giggling around someone’s family computer, hauled into a bedroom for secrecy, they became a routine part of our childhood sleepovers. One after another, the penises would flash up on screen, as we fell about screaming with laughter, half-covering our eyes with our school jumper sleeves.

“Ewwww! Next, next!” Someone would click “next”. The routine began again.

We were not looking for the penises on the now defunct anonymous chat room Omegle, but they would find us nonetheless.

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