Was probably a lot of maintenance effort for something that didn't catch on widely and duplicated Twitter's own video upload feature, except with more limitations (no videos longer than six seconds, in app recording only). Also, curiously enough it was labelled racist because of exactly the same aspects now being portrayed as positive: http://www.digitalamerica.org/vine-redefining-racial-stereot...
My problem with Vine is that it was really hard to find good content. There were so many people just making clips of themselves doing stupid crap. Honestly, the only good stuff I found on Vine while it was up was Thomas Sanders' content.
Twitter, you can at least follow people that you already know are interesting. Network effects and retweeting expose you to interesting content that they stumble across, and previously unknown accounts that produce interesting content.
Yes. But Vine is in the video space, where it's competing with YouTube, which has a massive back catalogue, and an abundance of originality, good content and talent (yes, really. You may not be looking in the right places, but it's there), which is readily discoverable, and already well known, (CGPGrey, ViHart, Veritasium, VSauce, Vlogbrothers, Schmoyoho, PewDiePie, Markiplier, CrashCourse, Extra Credits, The Jimquisition, Zero Punctuation, TotalBiscuit, PBSDigital, Errant Signal, XboxAhoy, charlieissocoollike, lonelygirl15, The Show With Ze Frank, TomSka, Eddsworld, CollegeHumor, The Game Theorists, Songs to Wear Pants to, MinutePhysics, Hannah Hart, and countless more). Even if you don't like all of it, there's usually something there for you.
Don't get the downvote. Seems like it would be constructive to discuss why they didn't succeed on youtube, are there workarounds to whatever to platform difference are, etc.
No looping means 6 second content will not have any impact on the viewer. Maybe producing a 5 minute video and a 6 second video needs different skills.
NPR, and all the old media are now competing with BuzzFeed etc for clicks. These sites do not hire trained journalist or even writers. What you get even from NPR etc is republish of blog posts someone wrote while eating breakfast with little or no editorial oversight. Its mostly clickbait trash.
And for those who downvoted this there is a very simple test you can do to reveal racism that you may have grown desensitized to. Simply replace the race with another/white and read it back.
"A Moment of Silence for the White and Yellow Talent That Grew on Vine."
>According to a Pew Research Center survey last year, almost a quarter of teens used Vine; and of those surveyed, 31 percent identified as black (non-Hispanic) and 24 percent as Hispanic.
It doesn't directly state that equivalence, and it seems weird that "black and brown" would exclude groups like middle easterners that are also darker-skinned minorities.
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[ 2.5 ms ] story [ 74.3 ms ] threadAnd for those who downvoted this there is a very simple test you can do to reveal racism that you may have grown desensitized to. Simply replace the race with another/white and read it back.
"A Moment of Silence for the White and Yellow Talent That Grew on Vine."
nothing racist there at all...
It's about the fact that the platform was disproportionately populated and loved by young creative Black and Latinx people.
Why do I post.
>According to a Pew Research Center survey last year, almost a quarter of teens used Vine; and of those surveyed, 31 percent identified as black (non-Hispanic) and 24 percent as Hispanic.