JenniCam Closing After 7+ Years 605
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."
The end of an era... (Score:5, Insightful)
Am I the only one? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:The end of an era... (Score:3, Insightful)
Closing Jennicam? (Score:5, Insightful)
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?
Maybe not to you... (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
Re:Jumped the Shark... (Score:2, Insightful)
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.
The creepiest thing ever... (Score:4, Insightful)
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..
Re:The end of an era... (Score:5, Insightful)
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Zombie site (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Much more interesting camgirl (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Am I the only one? (Score:1, Insightful)
Ah come on, you had a 9600 BAUD MODEM!!!! You know you had a Borland Turbo C compiler sitting on at least one or two of your computers. There was no internet, but there sure were BBS'.
I miss the BBS days. On BBS systems you pretty much knew all the posters on a personal level. There were only 100-200 people on a GOOD BBS. The Public Domain ones were annoying with too many people. The internet started out similarly with contained forums, IRC chat rooms where friends would hang out, etc.
Now due to the large spread of IM clients people don't need to hang out in chat rooms to talk to their friends and now forums have grown so large you can't really keep track of the people in the forum. You can barely keep track of the actual topics and a few posts let alone all the inside jokes that people try to put into their comments.
If it weren't for the fact that most people on this forum are unix geeks then most of the posts on this forum would be uninteresting because there is nothing of real interest that bonds ourselves from one comment to the next.
I dunno... internet sux. I've been saying that ever since it came "alive" with real audio. I was like, "Uh, huh huh
We put people on the moon several decades ago and we couldn't even get audible streaming audio for the longest time.
E-Mail, which drove most of the rest of the world to the internet is now full of SPAM and useless information. Reading e-mail is a chore for most people due to spam. It's not helpful to most of the world any longer. A HOTMAIL account gets about 50 spams a day. It's a chore.
The internet is such a downer. Thanks for nothing AL GORE!
age comments ... hee, hee (Score:5, 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 ;)
Re:Am I the only one? (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
Re:end of life, universe and the internet (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Am I the only one? (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Closing Jennicam? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:bound to happen (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:Era, pfft! (Score:3, Insightful)
I tell ya, there just aren't enough quality whores anymore.
Not eating is free (Score:1, Insightful)
You're kidding, right?
I don't know about where you live, but here it doesn't cost anything to step out of the front door and go for a walk or maybe even a run.