It's a Christmas miracle: Following a far-too-long hiatus, the incredible Steve Kardynal has graced the users of Chatroulette with a surprise performance for the second time in less than a month.

It's true: People still use Chatroulette. Which is excellent news, because it means Chatroulette Troll Extraordinaire Steve Kardynal still has a place to play.

"Shape-shifting" filmmaker Stef, his alter-ego Stefani, and a bunch of Stef and Stefani's Psy-head friends produced a Chatroulette-friendly remake of the K-pop sensation's ultra-viral music video, and unleashed the result on the video chat site's penis-anticipating users.

I don't know what's weirder: That Steve Kardynal enjoys freaking out Chatroulette users by wearing a bikini while lip-syncing to Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe", or that there are still people who use Chatroulette.

Chatroulette thinks it finally knows how to banish flashers. The video chat site has tried community moderation. It's tried dick detection software. Now it hopes 32 professional cockblockers can get a handle on this hard, longstanding problem.

Chatroulette is known for its pervs but there are the occasional dorks with guitars trying to serenade some pretty girl. This is probably fake but Chatroulette could use this to convince everyone else that it isn't just filled with creeps.

Hard to believe that tech's most powerful players were once squabbling for a piece of videochat site Chatroulette. Its teenaged Russian founder spurned them all, and Chatroulette is close to dead. Now he's having second thoughts.

Russian video-talk site Chatroulette has launched a new feature called "Skinsroulette." Contrary to what you might expect on the noted penis exhibition hub, Skinsroulette does not involve actual skin. Sadly, it also doesn't involve improvements to the Chatroulette core.

Andrey Ternovskiy tells the New Yorker our obituary for his social webcam hub Chatroulette is premature: "How can you be dead when your revenue has doubled? ... Gawker is like an annoying fly." Touché! Ternovskiy knows all about irritating people.

Remember Chatroulette? It's hard to believe that barely eight months ago the anonymous video chat site had everyone captivated. Venture capitalists clamored to invest, journalists tripped over one another to profile—and now Chatroulette is dying, unused and unloved.

Instant video chat site and purveyor of penises Chatroulette is still down, after promising a relaunch yesterday. The site now says it'll relaunch "shortly" instead of "today." What gives?

Chatroulette, the addictive instant video chat site, has disappeared. Instead of teenage genitalia, its homepage has a message: "The experiment #1 is over now. Thanks for participating." Experiment?

These poor guys are so excited about finally finding a chick willing to strip on ChatRoulette! Don't they know there are no actual girls on the anonymous video chat site—only dongs and viral marketing for The Last Exorcism?

The Last Exorcism comes out later this month, but the movie already has tons of online buzz, thanks to a genius marketing campaign involving a hot girl, unsuspecting teenage boys on Chatroulette, and the scariest bait-and-switch trick ever. Video inside.

Just as we all expected, people are finally getting over the internet's newest faddish party game, Chatroulette. The site had its first down month in May with unique users dipping 15 percent. Next!

Remember Chatroulette? The crazy random videochat thing? Its founder wants to turn it into a more legitimate business, which means cutting down on the number of disgusting things one witnesses there. Can he do it? (Probably not.)

You'd think that any rationale human being would understand that Chatroulette on live television would be a bad idea... but you'd be wrong. Watch as this German TV show's Chatroulette segment quickly becomes a disaster.

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Ben Folds sat down with Mashable.com last weekend to discuss Chatroulette and Merton's (the piano playing improv sensation) instant fame. Will Merton and Folds get together for a Chatroulete duet? Only time will tell.

Merton made a splash on the viral stage two weeks ago with his Chatroulette piano improv, which spread around the web like [STD] on [actress]. Well, he's back, and his second video is just almost as entertaining. Watch inside.

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