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A Moment of Silence for the Black and Brown Talent That Grew on Vine
- Animats 10y agoDoes anyone want to take over Vine?
- wodenokoto 10y agoPornhub, apparently.
- sdfjkl 10y agoHuh. He's not joking: https://www.cnet.com/news/pornhub-offers-to-buy-vine-6-seconds-twitter-jack-dorsey/ https://www.cnet.com/news/pornhub-offers-to-buy-vine-6-secon...
- anondon 10y agoSeems more like opportunistic PR than a serious offer.
- chris_wot 10y agoI dunno. 6 seconds isn't that short a time in the life of a porn user.
- acedinlowball 10y agoThis is the funniest thing I have ever seen on HN. Well played, sir.
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- chris_wot 10y agoWhy would they do this? Seems rather short sighted.
- makomk 10y agoWas 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-stereotyping-in-six-seconds-jason-tham/ http://www.digitalamerica.org/vine-redefining-racial-stereot...
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoMy 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.
- pavel_lishin 10y agoIsn't that a problem with Twitter, Instagram, etc, as well?
- douche 10y agoTwitter, 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.
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoYes. 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.
- jpindar 10y agoWhen I've seen good stuff on Vine it's always been because someone linked it on twitter or some forum.
- WhitneyLand 10y agoSo, these people couldn't have the same success on youtube?
- pavel_lishin 10y agoThey didn't.
- WhitneyLand 10y agoDon'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.
- 58 10y agoYoutube can be a nasty place. Take a look at the comment section of pretty much any video with a black person in it.
- Volt 10y agoCould the most successful people on Twitter have the same success on Medium?
- dingo_bat 10y agoNo 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.
- swiftisthebest 10y agoMost racist post I've ever seen on Hackernews. The color of these people's skin has no bearing on their success.
- generic_user 10y agoNPR, 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." nothing racist there at all...
- lips 10y agoThis is on Codeswitch - their blog by PoC for PoC issues. It's about the fact that the platform was disproportionately populated and loved by young creative Black and Latinx people. Why do I post.
- Dylan16807 10y agoSo in "black and brown", what ethnicities qualify as brown? Does it include some, all, or none of the black category?
- ap3 10y agoHispanics, it says so in the article. >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.
- Dylan16807 10y agoIt 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.