• Gawker, Friday, October 22, 2010 1:32 PM

With its traffic in the doldrums and its buzz bubble busted, Gawker is writing Chatroulette's obituary. "It's hard to believe that barely eight months ago the anonymous video chat site had everyone captivated," writes Gawker. "Venture capitalists clamored to invest, journalists tripped over one another to profile--and now Chatroulette is dying, unused and unloved." According to "rough traffic statistics" from Quantcast and Compete, the "voyeuristic social network" does seem to have lost the world wide web's attention.

Note Gawker -- as only Gawker can note: "It doesn't help that the site became infamous as a haven for bared c*cks and unsolicited masturbation, or that even after the site closed down for a week in August the penis problem still hadn't been solved, despite some talk of d*ck detection software." Exploring all options, TechCrunch recently reported that Chatroulette's young Russian founder Andrey Ternovskiy was brainstorming with Napster cofounder Shawn Fanning. Right, we know.

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