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JenniCam Closing After 7+ Years
An anonymous Jenni fan writes "Details are sketchy, but apparently within the past few days, JenniCam has announced that it is closing permanently on New Year's Eve. Jenni Ringley has run the site for over 7 and a half years and was even voted more popular than Linus in a ZDNet poll. Of course, such constant exposure has had its downsides; she has received death threats in the past. Last chance to check out that Slashbox while her life is still online."
I think this calls for a moment of silence, or something. No, I really mean it. This was one of our first chances to see the true potential of the internet - for good and for bad. It spawned camwhores of all varieties and gave rise to a new kind of voyeurism. Goodbye to a pioneer.
Who didn't know about this site OR care when they heard about it?
On the other hand, perhaps Jenny's subscriptions were dropping as creepy men were finding other girls' webcams to ogle. Maybe Jenny realized that her extended 15 minutes of fame are finally up. No disrespect though. She certainly seems to have garnered all the attention she could from a webcam.
Remember the coffee cam? Now that was cool. Wasn't it at MIT?
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Maybe not to you, but to Joe Public it does. In fact, the preponderance of webcams may have had something to do with the rise in popularity of reality TV. Here in the UK, we get Fame Academy, Big Brother, Celebrity Big Brother, and a slew of tedious TV shows that someone must be watching for them to stay on air. Maybe the majority of Slashdotters are just too cynical to be swayed by that sort of thing, but there are plenty of people who are convinced other peoples lives are somehow better than their own, and therefore worthy of viewing.
I watched the Jennicam for about twelve minutes and never went back. What's so interesting about a less-than-attractive (no offense) chick sitting around in front of her camera all day, sleeping half nude at night and occasionally bonking an ugly boyfriend? I can't believe there were actually suckers willing to pay for a subscription to that. Lame lame LAME.
I'm sure the ONLY reason she's closing it is that she's no longer raking in the dough. Otherwise you can be absolutely certain she would still milk it.
Jennicam the concept, maybe, not the person. Though there's got to be the plot for a horror story in there - someone decides to stop their popular webcam, only to find that the webcam keeps transmitting, showing someone her walking around her flat doing her usual things. Except that said person is there when Jenni herself isn't..
The site's been undead for years, stumbling around muttering "brains, brains" and bumping into shit. 99% of the time the camera's focused on an empty blue chair. It all went downhill when she stole her "friend's" fiancee and boinked him on camera.
No self respecting web designer would have that stupid-ass mouse trailer on their own website.
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Hee, hee ... I just love the wtf, she must be , like, 27 or even 30 now! Of course she has to quit! posts ...
Yes, egads, how could a 27-30 year old woman possibly be attractive? :o
Hmm, maybe I should just be glad that there is a whole segment of the population too stupid to give me any competition ;)
I wasn't a fan, but in the NS 1.1 days, remember all the buzz about... The Spot?
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It's the opportunistic spirit that drives many would-be-free-camwhores into a life of 'click here to see my naughty parts live'. Think about how many people used to throw old crap away, now they hock it on Ebay. The same concept applies to camwhores. They figure, hell, if I'm going to show my tits on the internet to some anonymous pervs and skript kiddies that cracked the password server, I might as well make a few bucks.
I tell ya, there just aren't enough quality whores anymore.