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Whoever decided to kill Vine certainly created a lot of value for TikTok, Instagram via Reels, and YouTube via Shorts.

• skohan 4y ago
  Vine was just early right? I would assume hosting and delivering video was just too expensive at the time.
  • theprincess 4y ago
    It wasn't that early. YouTube was, and still is, full of vine compilations. It really blew up for a while just serving 6 second videos at a low/moderate resolution. It could have been TikTok easily.
    • skohan 4y ago
      People make that comparison, but the secret sauce of TikTok is letting users score their content with high quality copyrighted music.
      • theprincess 4y ago
        That's a great point tbqh. Had vine lived I'm guessing they would have had to play catch up with that feature and who knows maybe they would have been too late.
  • Sohcahtoa82 4y ago
    That and it's probably very difficult to monetize 6 second videos.