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here’s some stuff that vine genuinely achieved:

• it sped up the pacing that viewers of online videos are used to, this definitely spread over to longer video formats, try rewatching the viral video powerthirst sometime, that’s almost a decade old and it feels so SLOW now even though i specifically remember quoting it with friends in a frenzy at the time and now it pales in comparison to more recent delivery in videos and that’s probably because of vine
• limitations can help encourage creativity and the time limit on vine helped so my people really tighten their comedy in some cases and really break it down to essentials in others. the jokes per minute in a vine compilation is REDICULOUS! the sort of simplification of absurd humour down to a sound or gesture is honestly amazing! the amount of information crammed into 6 seconds is a technical feat to be reckoned with!
• it provided an accessible video production tool, the entire process and result is so streamlined, that kind of ease of creation opened it to so many people, this accessibility of content creation started on youtube, sure, but by putting it all in one app vine really refined it.
• it provided a presentation space for groups of people often marginalised, this was unintended but it happened and it’s important to understand that it happening is a big part of vine’s success. Other people have spoken about this better than me
• being super hard to put ads or spam on ahaha get fuckeD