The wait is finally over. After seven long years, Vine is back and better than ever. Your favorite Viners are ready to create some good content, but this time, on Tik Tok.
Vine blew up as soon as it hit the internet. Viewers would spend hours scrolling through their feeds, watching hilarious videos to entertain themselves. In 2017, the owners of Twitter, who also owned Vine, shut down the app because it was not making enough money.
Not all hope was lost. Vine videos could still be seen on Twitter feeds. Therefore, the app was no longer needed.
Many people, including myself, were destroyed when the termination of Vine happened. For years now, rumors have been spread about Vine 2 coming out, but they were only that, rumors.
It was not until I found my little sister scrolling through her TikTok feed last year that I hoped an app like Vine would make a comeback.
TikTok started with some middle schoolers making interesting video collages on the platform, just as my eighth-grade-year-old sister loved. As the year progressed, the app began to attract attention from the old Viners we all loved and missed so dearly.
David Dobrik, King Bach, and other famous Viners have recently become active on TikTok and consistently create new content. However, both Dobrik and King Bach have had TikTok accounts since 2015. In one of the videos, Dobrik even had braces.
Despite the age of his account, Dobrik didn’t become active on the platform recently. Now he creates trending content on TikTok similar to his Vines. He went from 104.4K followers in 2015 to 1.4M in present day.
Tik Tok isn’t just for internet influencers. There are many celebrities on TikTok, including Mariah Carey, Bob Saget, and Justin Bieber. The platform allows fans and viewers to keep up with their favorite celebrities and gain insight into their personal lives. For example, Miley Cyrus often makes videos with her boyfriend, Cody Simpson.
I found myself scrolling through TikTok’s #foryou, which is the name of their main feed, and was still there two hours later, being sucked into its black hole. It is just as addicting as Vine. It’s entirely possible we got our Vine 2 in the form of Tik Tok.