Safety at OMG Chat

Meeting strangers should be exciting, not scary. Here's what OMG Chat does to keep calls safe, what happens when you use the safety tools, and the habits that protect you on any video chat.

The rules, in one paragraph

OMG Chat is for adults aged 18 and over. Keep your clothes on and your face in view. No sexual content, harassment, hate, threats, scams, spam or recording people without consent, and absolutely nothing involving minors. The full rules are in our Community Guidelines.

Your safety tools

Next: leave instantly

Next ends a call on the first tap, with no countdown or confirmation. You never need a reason to skip, and you can never be trapped in a call.

Block

Blocked people can never be matched with you again and can't call, message or friend-request you. They aren't told. Undo blocks any time in Settings → Blocked users.

Report

Tap the shield, choose Report and a reason. You're moved on immediately, and the other person isn't told who reported them.

Voice-only mode

Talk with your camera off. Voice-only users are matched with each other first.

What happens when you report someone

You pick a reason: nudity or sexual content, harassment or hate, appears under 18, spam or scam, or other.
The call ends for you straight away and you're matched with someone new.
The report is reviewed. Depending on how serious it is and the account's history, we may warn the person, suspend them temporarily or ban them permanently. Banned accounts can't be matched with anyone.
Illegal content, especially anything involving the sexual exploitation of children, is reported to the authorities.

You can contest a decision about your own account by emailing memegrinders@gmail.com.

Privacy by design

No recordings. Calls go directly between devices, or through an encrypted relay when a direct connection isn't possible. We don't record, store or watch your video or audio.
Guest mode. You don't need an account or a real name to chat.
Honest about IP addresses. Because calls are peer-to-peer, the other person's device can technically see your IP address, which usually reveals your rough region. Use a VPN if you'd like to hide it. How random video chat works explains why.
Ads stay out of the way. No ads are shown while you're connecting or in a call.

Five habits that keep you safe anywhere

Keep personal details private: no address, school, workplace, phone number, social handles, passwords or codes.
Check your background for anything that identifies you.
Never send money or gift cards to someone you met online, and never open links from strangers.
Stay in the app. People who push you to another app in the first minute usually want to get away from the report button.
Assume anything on camera can be recorded by the other person.

Read the full checklist in how to stay safe video chatting with strangers, and learn the warning signs in sextortion and scams on video chat.

Getting help

In danger right now? Call the emergency services: 112 in the EU, 999 in the UK, 911 in the US.
Threatened with an intimate image? Don't pay. Save evidence, block and report. Adults can use StopNCII.org to help stop an image being shared on participating platforms; for under-18s, NCMEC's Take It Down.
Struggling or thinking about self-harm? Please contact a local helpline. In the Netherlands, 113 Zelfmoordpreventie: call 113 or 0800-0113. Elsewhere, findahelpline.com lists free services in many countries.
Anything else: email memegrinders@gmail.com. See Contact for what to include.