At the dawn of 2017, the social media platform vine met its demise when it's owner, Twitter, decided to pull the plug. But it might just be time for to you Viners out there to dust of your white vans and hoverboards, because the social media platform may be coming back.
For the unaware, Vine was a social media platform launched in 2013 where users could post a six-second video. The platform spread like wildfire and is responsible for starting the career of individuals like Jake and Logan Paul, Liza Koshy, King Bach and many others who started their career in comedy on the app.
Along with allowing some individuals to claim their fame, the app launched a culture of it's own, where many users formed inside jokes with videos that became viral. Unfortunately, the app shut down in 2016 after it was bought out by Twitter.
While the app is no longer available for mobile devices, users can view any vines located in the archives on vine.co, keeping the culture alive primarily on YouTube and Twitter, where users compiled some of their favorite vines for the entertainment of others.
Dom Hofmann, one of the three co-founders of Vine, tweeted last week: “I’m going to work on a follow-up to Vine. I’ve been feeling it myself for some time and have seen a lot of tweets, DMs, etc.” but he didn't provide many other details, with the exception of a follow up a tweet that says Vine 2.0 is going to be self-funded as an 'outside project' to keep it from interfering with his company Interspace.
However, we shouldn't get our hopes up. it's still not clear how possible Vine 2.0 is, but it seems like Hofmann is trying to right a wrong and bring joy back to the internet. Regardless, Twitter has gone wild at the thought of Vine 2.0. Could "rip vine" videos on YouTube be replaced with new content on a revival of the app?
Let's all just hope Twitter doesn't mess it up.