Vine was six seconds of pure joy. Launched on January 24, 2013 by Rus Yusupov, Dom Hofmann and Colin Kroll, and soon part of Twitter's family, it asked a strange, wonderful question: what could you say in a looping clip that fit on a loop and played forever? The answer turned out to be: everything. By December 2015, over 200 million people were active on Vine, and its clips spilled out across Facebook and Twitter, spawning trends that felt like an inside joke the whole internet was in on. It helped give rise to influencers and collaborative content creation — but for most of us, it was just the app we opened when we needed to laugh.
When Twitter announced on October 27, 2016 that uploads would be disabled, and the service was formally discontinued on May 3, 2023, we didn't just lose an app. We lost a format with its own grammar, a place where creators found each other and a generation of comedy was born. The loops stopped, but nothing quite filled the silence. Vine competed with Instagram and Snapchat, and later the platforms it preceded carried the short-form torch forward — but the original had a feel all its own, and the archive of a culture deserves better than to sit in the dark.
We ask Vine Labs and Twitter to bring Vine back — even a limited run, even a respectful revival, even just a working archive where the loops can loop again. Six seconds was always enough to make something people loved. The signatures below aren't nostalgia on autopilot; they're from people who know exactly what a well-made loop was worth, and who believe there's still an audience waiting for it to play again.
— filed by the fans of Vine (service), at products.rip
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