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JenniCam Closing After 7+ Years

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the no-longer-refreshing dept.

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."

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  1. The end of an era... by musingmelpomene · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

    1. Re:The end of an era... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

      I've been online since the late 1980s. Am I the only person who hasn't heard of Jenni?

    2. Re:The end of an era... by SystematicPsycho · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I'll be glad to give it a moment of silence when shows like Big Brother and Survivor are finally gone. That's the kind of voyeurism is spawned.
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  2. Am I the only one? by sageo · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Who didn't know about this site OR care when they heard about it?

    1. Re:Am I the only one? by AKnightCowboy · · Score: 5, Insightful
      I guess she's faded into insignificance, because all the teenagers who watched her with the hope of seeing her naked have grown up.

      No, they've just watched the Internet evolve into the greatest pornography distribution system the world has ever known. In 1994 it was hard to find any good free porn sites.. 1995 brought the businesses who locked down their porn and blurred it out for guests. Eventually the race to compete for customers brought us to the point where you can now just type in random URLs and get to a hardcore pornography site. Who needs to sit around on Jennicam.com hoping some 30+ year old chick takes her shirt off? God bless the Interweb and smut peddlers.

  3. Closing Jennicam? by xeno_gearz · · Score: 5, Insightful
    On one hand, I could lament the "loss" of an internet mainstay of whom many of us were aware of. On the other hand, webcams have become so overdone. Every teenage girl and her best friend have one. Consequently, this is played out. So who cares? I'm sure "Jenny" has realized she has better things to do than pose on a webcam.

    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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  4. Maybe not to you... by Channard · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Watching someone else's life just doesn't appeal to me I guess...

    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.

  5. The creepiest thing ever... by Channard · · Score: 3, Insightful
    I heard some sad news on PBS this morning. Jennicam was found dead at her website today.

    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..

  6. Zombie site by marmoset · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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.

  7. Re:Much more interesting camgirl by liquidsin · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No self respecting web designer would have that stupid-ass mouse trailer on their own website.

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  8. age comments ... hee, hee by cascadingstylesheet · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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 ;)