(CNN) -- It all comes down to the flasher problem.
The website Chatroulette -- which unites people all over the world for live, random video chats -- has been plagued by awkward, and possibly illegal, nudity since it became wildly popular in February of this year.
People who log onto the site with a webcam are thrown into a video conversation with a stranger, who, according to one analyst's report, is likely to be a stranger without pants more than 10 percent of the time.
Meanwhile, the site's founder, a Russian teenager named Andrey Ternovskiy, continues to say that he's out to create a "perfect video world" where people can talk across national borders and beyond social cliques and demographics.
The major hitch in that utopian vision: the nakedness, which led some to turn away from the site.
Salon.com posted an article on June 29 titled "R.I.P. Chatroulette," citing lewd material on the site as the reason it will die a fad.
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