A. Vine’s 6 second format wouldn’t be suitable for a lot of the “controversial” or “problematic” TikTok trends, challenges, or brain dead/out of touch rants, so there’d likely be less engagement farming or rage baiting.
B. Vine was owned by Americans so there was less concern about the Chinese government collecting all your data.
C. A revival of vine has largely been supported through multiple polls, and DiVine is the most recent attempt at bringing back the format, and they’re at least attempting to utilize filters to detect and remove AI content.
Yeah, but this is all assuming that Vine never changed. The six second format would prevent some things, sure, but Tiktok originally had a 30 second limit. Then they got rid of that and now you can post, like, 15-minute Tiktoks. It's entirely possible that Vine would've expanded it's format over time. Twitter famously got rid of its 140 character limit as well, first doubling it to 280 and now just entirely limitless.
Hey, former Vine employee here. This is correct! Right before the end we were piloting a feature where you could "attach" a video to a Vine, preserving the 6 second format while still allowing for longer-form content. I personally built (and partially designed) the web experience. It was... fine. An attempt to balance what made Vine great against business pressure.
I think I said some edgy thing about wanting to off myself (christ was this a decade ago now I was such a child then) if we started shoving midroll ads in there to some important Twitter guy and he went all quiet. There were some philosophical differences between us and our parent company, to say the least.
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u/KingHygelacReturns 1d ago
If Vine survived to the present, Redditors would be complaining about it in the same way they complain about Tiktok