"Frankly, I don't want to experience a heart attack in my 30s."
At the age of 32, K-Brooks candidly admitted, "There can be no genuine discussion about Omegle without recognizing that some individuals misused it, even for incredibly heinous activities."
The New York Post has reached out for comments from K-Brooks and Omegle.
The free platform, which once allowed youngsters as young as 13 to participate with parental consent, had amassed a staggering 66 million monthly users worldwide before K-Brooks decided to shut it down.
Omegle raked in an estimated $200 million in annual revenue by employing cost-per-click advertisements and trading user data.
In a heartfelt statement, Brooks disclosed that he himself had endured childhood trauma, having been a victim of s*xual assault. This traumatic experience served as a driving force behind the creation of the site, which he launched from his parents' residence in Vermont, aiming to provide a secure haven for others.
"As a survivor of childhood s*xual abuse, I was acutely aware that every time I interacted with someone in the physical world, I was putting my physical well-being at risk. The internet offered me a sanctuary from that fear," he expressed.
"I had no delusion that only virtuous individuals utilized the internet, but I knew that if I declined someone online, they couldn't physically breach the screen and threaten me with a weapon or worse."
Nonetheless, this sanctuary was consistently under siege by individuals with nefarious intentions, notably pedophiles.
As recently as August, a Virginia man was sentenced to 16 years in federal prison after confessing to engaging with "at least" 1,000 underage girls on Omegle and covertly recording hundreds of explicit videos, as reported by The Washington Post.
Anthony Benton, aged 21, pleaded guilty to the production and receipt of child p*rnography.