TikTok, which drives a huge amount of traffic to the site, has since banned sharing links to Omegle – but videos tagged with ‘Omegle’ have been viewed billions of times.
Child predators can easily access the video chat website Omegle.īut during a single one hour period while the BBC investigated the platform, researchers were paired with 12 masturbating men, eight naked males and seven porn adverts.Īny user browsing Omegle could have connected with these explicit images, including young children.Īfter a spate of viral videos from influencers like KSI, Charli D’Amelio, James Charles and Emma Chamberlain, whose audiences tend to be under-18, traffic spiked to the site – in December, 3.7 million visits were made to the site, mainly from younger demographics.