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That's really sad and disappointing. I was never really into Omegle; I knew it was around for a long time, but it was too sketchy for me to want to browse it myself. However, during the COVID lockdown I discovered a new genre of YouTube videos that I gained a fascination with: VRChat Omegle. The YouTuber(s) (sometimes multiple) would get together in vrchat and setup a virtual camera that would interface with Omegle like a normal webcam. The result was entertaining, especially when it came to furry YouTubers.
In some ways it'd get kinda stale because 90% of the reactions would be, "whoa, how are you doing that bro???" but it was still entertaining nevertheless. Even people the people who hate furries had to stop and ask questions like, "bro, is that an instagram filter bro?" or "wait... Is that... REAL???" It was particularly interesting when they'd occasionally get someone who knew how to execute man-in-the-middle attacks to fuck with the people on both ends (it seemed to be innocent trolling most of the time, though I'm sure there were bad actors doing it as well).
It's sad that it's gone now.