RIP Vine

Students remember beloved app

RIP. Students have learned a hard lesson after the death of popular video-sharing app Vine in January. “I have had many regrets in my seventeen and a half years of life. One of them was never appreciating Vine for what it was until it was too late. It has determined so much of our culture today - indeed, you do it for the Vine, and the Vine only,” said Kiri Wang, 12. Appreciating the small things in life like a good chuckle from a Vine is vital to our well being, and students continue to remember the app in its glory days.

Anne Marsh

RIP. Students have learned a hard lesson after the death of popular video-sharing app Vine in January. “I have had many regrets in my seventeen and a half years of life. One of them was never appreciating Vine for what it was until it was too late. It has determined so much of our culture today – indeed, you do it for the Vine, and the Vine only,” said Kiri Wang, 12. Appreciating the small things in life like a good chuckle from a Vine is vital to our well being, and students continue to remember the app in its glory days.

Anne Marsh, Creative Projects Director
January 4, 2018

Like Van Gogh, Vine was never truly appreciated until after its untimely death.

Vine is (was…) a video sharing app in which users could post six second comedic videos that played in an infinite loop, both on our screens and in our hearts.

“Vine was the best and worst distraction but it made me so happy. It’s created a tight knit community on social media.

“It’s kind of like an inside joke with the entire millennial generation, which is fun because you can connect with everyone in one way or another,” said Keren Idelman, 12.

According to The Verge, the app was bought by Twitter in October 2012, and the company decided to lay it to rest January 17, 2017 due to its lack of user growth and monetary profit.

But Vine was not about the money.

It was about the laughs.

“Watching the community and the tool push on each other was exciting and unreal, and almost immediately it became clear that Vine’s culture was going to shift towards creativity and experimentation,” said Dom Hoffman, founder of Vine.

Hoffman announced a new app called “V2” in a December 6 tweet, whose launch date is still a mystery, but everyone knows that nothing will ever truly replace vine.

The loss of Vine begs the question: why do we never appreciate what we have until it is gone?

We become secure in knowing that a privilege like running water or a glorious app will be at our disposal until we learn what life is like without it.

In the wise words of author Kurt Vonnegut: “Enjoy the little things in life, because someday you will realize they were the big things.”