Vine: Where Are They Now?

foreigner, stop, you're putting cream cheese all over the table, honey, I'm a retired police officer, not a maid Kevin, plus, I'm fat and that's what makes my character funny. You're right, Kevin, I love you. Good night all. We interrupt this. episode, oh come on, now I'm not bringing you an important story. This is really important news that you don't want to miss. Make sure you stay tuned to all channels. What is so important? Twitter has announced that its popular social media app Vine will be closing its doors in the coming months at this time the specific details of this move are unclear, but one thing I know for sure is that if you are a Viner and your only source of relevance online and health self-esteem is how many Vine followers you have, so I imagine this news is just devastating to my goodness.

I heard, can you believe this? No, that's crazy,

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're shutting down Vine. What, oh no, I wasn't listening. I'm in the news. Do I love the new? I'm the news anchor, which is weird because I didn't think I was. Because I did not know it? No you're not, this is a sketch, Drew, you're just playing all the characters. uh, characters that you recorded yesterday and now you're playing it on TV. I'm not so sure I'm following it right. Clearly, this is getting too meta. Did you just write this part because you didn't know? I didn't know how to finish this sketch, yeah, I thought about calling 9-1-1.

Hello, I would like to order a sandwich. You also wrote a sketch that's supposed to have taken place a year ago. Just pickle that the phone you gave yourself was a Motorola Razor. Do you think people were still using Razer phones a year ago? I don't remember when people stopped using razors. Can everyone do me a favor and refrain from commenting on my little band-aid? No, I'm not going to tell you how I hurt my finger and I'm definitely not going to tell you how to use a cheese grater because apparently I don't know and I'm absolutely not going to tell you why the only Band-Aids I have are from a movie called The Secret Life of Pets I've Never Heard of Buddy, hello everyone and welcome back to the dumpster behind Chili's.

Today we are going to take a little trip to the past. Specifically my memory, since I don't have access to it. from anyone else, uh, and although this video will be full of personal stories and experiences through my own eyes, I think there will be something in this video for everyone, especially if you used to be a Viner or were once just a big fan of Vines. Many of you will know that it's been exactly a year since Vine announced

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were closing, it's actually been a little over a year depending on how long it takes me to make this video close enough and even if it doesn't seem like it.

It has been so long. A lot has changed in the last year. Now every once in a while I start watching one of the Vine compilations that are all over YouTube and sometimes I find myself watching them and seeing someone and thinking about what happened. For them, have you ever seen an Old Vine? And I'm not just talking about the popular Viners, like Lele Pons and those kinds of people who have moved on to other things, obviously, but some of the more successful Vines, like this green guy. You're my bad, what happened to him and this being the anniversary of Vine's death, I thought it would be a perfect opportunity to do a little digging and find out

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some of these prominent figures have disappeared and why Vine. was such a hugely important part of my life that I wanted to have this definitive video

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I talk about pretty much my entire experience with Vine, how it changed my life, why I think Vine was good, and why I also think Vine was bad, because obviously I had its flaws, otherwise it would still exist today, but for now let's go ahead and delve into the first segment of Vine, there's supposed to be a song, where are they now because in the mail today are these crazy people?

Gotti, I laugh every time the Deez Nuts guy whose real name is Charles Nutz is one of the most notorious figures to ever come from Vine, as everyone knows, Charles hosted his own prank show on VH1, the prank hour of Deez Nuts, which aired for 12 seasons and remains the highest-rated show in television history. Who could forget that Season 6 crossover episode with Ashton Kutcher where they both thought they were pranking each other? You were Punk despite high ratings throughout episode 600. Perform the Deez Nuts prank. The hour was canceled in August when they simply ran out of people to joke with and he can't joke with someone twice.

Zack, stop, Zach, stop, you're going to get in trouble. They called this Vine too kicked and without a doubt he is one of my favorites. Vines sometime, but he leaves you with many questions like why he kicked so much, why his friends kept telling him not to do it. I guess it makes sense why they told him not to do it because he ended up getting arrested, but it's a pretty confusing Vine and I remained confused about this for months until very recently I was sick of it and decided to do a quick Google search. and I found out very quickly that he was simply arrested for reaching for the legal kick. limit a day later I got very angry at all the people who didn't do as much research as I did and continued to question this well the answers were right in front of you you just had to Google them and even though it seems a bit harsh that I was sentenced to life sentence without the possibility of parole.

The law is the law and the law must be respected. Iridocyclitis. Unfortunately, this kid lost this spelling bee after a late field goal in overtime, but like all stories. must have a happy ending he is currently the mayor of Sacramento the story does not have a happy ending after facing the worst public humiliation of his life this poor man had to move to a different state where he couldn't get an apartment or even a job because He forgot his wallet, who am I? Let's go to the beach. I'm Corbin Blue. Corbin blue, one of the most mysterious figures on Vine after an anonymous Reddit user strongly argued that this Corbin blue is not the same Corbin Bleu from The High.

People from the School Musical franchise began to question Corbin's true identity, however, there is one rumor that I think sounds pretty convincing. I apologize in advance for tolerating a rumor that doesn't have one hundred percent solid evidence to back it up, but I think very strongly about this one, basically the rumor is that Corbin Bleu is Spider-Man. Now you may be thinking that's ridiculous. Spider-Man lives in New York while Corbin Bleu lives on the Internet, but there's a pretty compelling argument that these two are. in fact, the same person, let's take a look at Corbin's publishing schedule.

Now I'm going to go ahead and scroll down to 2015 because there's a pretty noticeable discrepancy here, here we go. Corbin posted three times on October 16, 2015. but then didn't post again until October 28, you know, almost two weeks later, now wonder where Corbin was. Now it stands to reason that if Spider-Man had a Vine account he wouldn't be able to post every day because he would be busy fighting the Green Goblin and whatever other villains he has and this wasn't just a one time thing, the behavior continues on the 17th. November, publishes it and then doesn't do it again until December 11th, that's almost a month.

Spider-Man is supposed to fight a lot of crime and would be very busy and I imagine this is exactly the kind of posting schedule he would be forced to maintain when you look at all this evidence combined, it seems obvious that there is no other possible answer, Corbin ruined It's Spider-Man, yeah, a lot of people assumed it was Cole Hirsch playing a character just because they have the same Snapchat account and look very similar, but if you ask me, that's not enough evidence to say, oh, they are the same person, as I said before in this video.

It's about the truth, everything in this video is true. I did a lot of research to find out all these things about all these people and I think it would ruin my credibility as a video creator if I approved such ridiculous rumors without any real evidence. Also, it seems very obvious that Corbin and Spider-Man. Oh, we'll come back to that segment in a moment, but first I want to talk a little bit about why I think Vine was good and also why Vine was bad, because I think both. are true, the most important thing I want to make clear in this video is that I am a million percent grateful to Vine for what they allowed me to do and where they allowed me to go.

I want to talk honestly about what I believe and some of the issues. with Vine we went and I don't think it's like I said, I don't think it's that crazy to say that Vine had the flaws of it because it doesn't exist anymore, but ultimately I want to make it clear that I love Vine, I appreciate it. Damn Vine and all the employees and the people I met and everyone who allowed me to be where I am today! Vine was a perfect place to get started on the internet and build a platform from scratch if you wanted to be an online content. creator Vine was the place to start it was easy to make Vines it was easy to get your Vines seen Vine was about ideas because with Vine the distance between an idea and the execution of that idea was very short, you could have the idea for a Vine and in a couple of hours there is work on the road ahead uh yeah I hope so and then a few hours later you have a million loops and a ton of comments and likes and all this validation is given to you for the idea.

You had it a couple of hours ago, so Vine was great in that sense, but really what made Vine great was the people on Vine. It was a really fun group of creators to be a part of because everyone supported each other, it would be a lot of fun. to see your friend or just someone that you follow and really like, you see a Vine that they post and you're like, oh, that's a great idea, that's really fun, that's fantastic, they posted a couple of minutes ago and you know it's going to become viral and then you check back. a few hours later it has the Little Flame Emoji next to the view count, it's number one on the comedy page with things like Vine and YouTube, they can only exist with the people who use them and they are only as good as the creators of content on The App and Vine for the most part had a fantastic group of creators and I don't think it was the quality of Vines that led to its demise, all that led to its demise was more numbers, they weren't making money, that kind of things. but I think now there was really great content and really great people on Vine.

Shifting the focus a little bit to what some of Vine's flaws were and I think a lot of the things that made Vine good were, unfortunately, also the things that made Vine doomed to fail. failing in the same way that Vine was accessible to creators was also quite limiting because it was six seconds long. I can't tell you how many times I would sit there trying to edit a Vine shorter and shorter and shorter and shorter and I could get It was like eight seconds nine seconds and it's like I can't. I can't shorten this. I can't post this on Vine.

It was hard to fit a good joke into six seconds, and sometimes so many Vines were perfect. up to that point, but as a creator you start using Vine, and as your ideas start to get more elaborate, you need to go to other platforms to express those ideas, even when Vine was still around for much of 2016. I actually didn't use I came so much. because I was trying to figure out, you know, I was at a point where it's okay. I've been doing Vine for a while and I feel good about it. I feel good about what I've done, but what's next, you know and I think.

Many people think the same. Vine was a great place to be, but there was always that idea of ​​well, I'm not going to be here forever, so what's next? And that brings me to what I think is pretty much my main point of why I think Vine was always doomed to fail the way I see it is that everyone has their own career ladder in their head, where the The top of the scale represents total creative fulfillment if you were as successful as you can imagine. It seems and the top of the ladder is different for everyone, maybe the ultimate satisfaction for you is that you want to write a movie or you want to act in a TV show, you want to be like Dwight in the office, maybe that's your career goal. finale or maybe you want to be famous enough to get fourth place on Dancing With the Stars, it's different for everyone, so while each Vine creator's ranking was slightly different, I think what they all had in common was that Vine wasn't at the top, actually, I think.

Vine for most people was the last step, it was the first step and there is nothing wrong with that. I don't want to disparage Vine in any way, but I think for most people no one was successful on Vine and said, "I'm going to do this." forever because it just didn't seem to work that way, it didn't seem viable, it was great to start with, but once you get to a point where you're okay, where am I going with this?, it was usually the next place to go. is somewhere else, so going back to the last analogy, if Vine is the first step, that means two things: one, it was accessible enough to be reached from the ground, but the final work of thefirst step of the ladder is to propel you to the next step. of the ladder and that's what Vine was, it was the 100 necessary first step that would propel people further forward.

I imagine this kind of thing made it very difficult to be a Vine employee or someone who had a big role at Vine because you probably see these very talented people come in and use Vine to do something else, like they come and get what they want. They came to search. But ultimately, they just needed to go away and do something else with the rest of my career, whatever I do. It completely disappears and I never do anything or if I'm going to be a millionaire filmmaker. I owe my start to Vine. It doesn't matter how talented or funny I think I am.

I am now recognized as an online entertainer because Vine did not express gratitude for What Got You Where You Are Now shows a complete and utter lack of self-awareness. Going back to the last analogy, it's pretty easy when you're on the second step to look down at the ground and see how far you've come. but let's not forget that when you're on the ground you can't get to the second step without the first, hey Logan, so these two guys were pretty popular on Vine. I haven't seen them much in a long time, so... I'll have to look into that on every level except the physical.

I'm a wolf. Shout out to the Twitter follower who sent me this Paparazzi photo that was taken a couple of weeks ago of this guy. One of the first things you'll notice is that this is a picture of a wolf and that he is a wolf now on every level, including physical, take another turn, coach, just give me a second, give me a second, give me a second to breathe, this family is a perfect encapsulation of what made Vine so special. Every now and then you would meet someone and you would just marvel at the fact that she exists and that there is someone like that because young J-ro is very interesting on her own because of the way she sings.

When there's too much drama. at school all you have to do is walk away and even the way she calls herself jro, but on top of that you add her uncle, hey, it's your uncle, your uncle, that in her grandmother or her aunt, actually I'm not sure, man, it seems. That's great, you've got it right, honey, and it's all about the cook. I went to Vine like that. Damn, he looks at those babies for days, which makes sense. You know he has a setup and a joke, but then you realize that babies. The days they're talking, two of them are like 10 years old, let's just overlook that I had your drink, this makes me miss Vine because he reminds me of all the weird people you discover and they just walk away.

You with so many questions who are these people, what is this family and why don't they have their own reality show. Well, actually I found out that it is. Uncle's House will premiere its first season next month and will say exclusively on YouTube Red, hey postman, what? Did you only receive this letter, Jonathan? I don't love you anymore, in my opinion, Danny was one of the best seekers. um, he was very popular because he could make

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s that everyone could relate to, but there was so much better. than all the other Vines and relatable Viners that ever existed because he's a legitimately funny person, if you liked him on Vine he's still making YouTube videos now and if you're not already subscribed you should go check them out, the only thing about Danny and Maybe get mad that I brought this up but I feel like I should say something about it because if you click on any of his videos all the comments are about this but a few months ago Danny was diagnosed with a permanently backwards illness.

Those of you who don't know that it's basically a disease where a healthy person's physical body is permanently upside down, know that Danny is a very funny guy, but you have to admit that it can be a little difficult to watch his videos because it's very disorienting to see someone who is just upside down all the time, like I said all your comments are about people seeming to be frustrated and confused but kudos to Danny for not just editing the video to make it look like he's on his back because If I did that, then I would do it.

We will no longer raise awareness about a very real condition that affects millions of people and that is something that simply cannot be put a price on. If you ask me, I think you need to fix that in Premiere, it's disgusting and I don't like it. Without a doubt, the best memory I have of Vine and one of the best memories I have of my entire life so far is working on Camp unplug Camp unplug more like Camp fun plugs or Camp butt plug, it's on my jacket for Those of you who you don't know what Camp Unplug is, uh, that's probably most of you, uh, let me explain, so in March of 2016 I got a message on Twitter from this guy, Jeremy, who works at Vine and at first I couldn't.

I think it was real, he asked me if he wanted to be a part of this series that they had written that we were going to film over the summer and they were going to fly us to this camp in Wisconsin and then they were going to take us. We at VidCon as featured creators, they were going to do all these things and pay for all these things for us, almost everyone on the list that I had heard of and were fans of their Vines. So I wasn't just going to be a part of this. It's kind of incredible, but I would meet all these people I had met up to that point, except maybe a couple more

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rs who live in Orlando.

I hadn't really met any Vine creators, so it was very exciting to meet them. These people that I had been observing all this time and that I had met in real life also made me a little nervous because I didn't know if I think I'm funnier in real life than on Vine, but there was also a part of me saying no, I hope you like it, which is more or less my constant state of mind before doing something. What was so cool was that they gave us a script, um Chris Melberger, Aaron Tuning and Jeremy. I wrote a great script, but everything within the project was also 100% collaborative, so the first night we arrived we sat at the table reading the entire script and we were all doing our lines and every time someone had an idea like Oh, so time. my character should say this instead, it was like there was never any sense of uh, maybe you should do what's in the script, you know, it was like everyone had their own ideas and, um, everyone's ideas.

They were heard, another thing that specifically for me was so cool about being invited to this was like the moment they first asked me. I think I only had like a hundred thousand followers, which is good, but there were probably thousands of people who had more followers. that I, certainly, just one of the group of people there, most of the people there were over a million, they were some of the biggest viners. I know Cody had around 2 million. Danny had over 1 million, maybe he had 2 million at the time Lauren Geraldo had like three million Victor Pope, all these people, all these people, they had had a lot more followers than me.

If it wasn't for this I don't think I would have ever dated any of these people just because I didn't live in Los Angeles and I didn't then and I still don't and no one lives in Florida except Tiger Woods but I don't know if that It would be a good PR move if he had started collaborating with Tiger Woods together. With the release of Camp unplug, Vine also launched this feature where you could attach longer videos to your Vines and that was really the only way this story could be told on the Vine platform and it couldn't just be a bunch of little six-minute videos. seconds. scenes, so the way Camp unplug was said was that you would have these two to five minute long scenes and then when these fictional campers have some free time, they get into their own little shenanigans, sorry, I'm not going , okay, you want to jump.

I'll be mad alright, I will, it was great, it was great to be a part of, you're probably expecting me to like it, get to the point right now, this is just me gushing about these memories that I have. and the people I met, but that's it. I just look back and say it with enthusiasm. The fact that I had to do this like I mentioned, we also got invited to VidCon now if you've never been to VidCon. and I would like to go back, but this was the only time I went to VidCon so far.

The crazy VidCon of vidcon is a completely different world because you have this entire subsection of humanity compacted in one place. I know if I will ever feel as much of a celebrity as I did that weekend. The fact that he was technically a Featured Creator. They had their old booth set up. He was one of those near the front. They had these big LED screens. and my big goofy face would show up from time to time, so it was crazy, oh, they also took us to Disneyland, which was awesome, they rented out this whole section from a nearby Denny's, so every night, but between 9 p.m. and 3 a.m. or something like that. you know, you'd have all these drunk creators going there, all the food was free, we lit up, you could order whatever you wanted off the menu and it was so free to the point where you'd see people come in drunk and order something and So don't wait and You will see a large pile of untouched nachos.

We Vine celebrities really abused the hell out of that whole experience, um, but definitely yeah, definitely the best, one of the best experiences of my life and something I felt. I had to talk about whether I'm going to do this full video. I'm so glad I can take it off now when it's so hot it's like 80 degrees in my apartment because I have to turn off the air conditioning while I'm filming. um, because it's so loud and Jesus Christ, uh, this feels good, this feels good now, so yeah, can I have like a raw potato and a spoon and then just an egg to drink, thanks honey, oh, hey , we're back, two brothers relaxing? the hot tub five feet away because they're not gay, this was a pretty big headline at the time, so I'm sure you guys heard about this, but basically as the night went on, the two brothers so as not to get confused.

Because they were in a homosexual relationship, they slowly drifted further and further away from each other until they both ended up in the middle of the ocean where they were tragically eaten by two different dolphins. Sources later revealed that those dolphins were actually married and that's ironic. a pretty gay way to die Legend has it that this boy is still running, no one knows where he is or how far he has run or if he will ever come back, his friends are gone and his family too, they have replaced his room. with a room that's full of water all the time no one goes in and no one goes out Tyrone, notice your father baby, that baby doesn't look like me, ah Cole Labrant, the whitest and boisiest member of the dark white boys, if not It's from Vine.

You may know Cole from his YouTube channel, where he and his wife like to film his three-year-old daughter getting hurt. Maybe you know him from that time too. He tweeted about losing his virginity on his wedding night and then blocked me when I did. a very good joke about that, Cole. I wasn't making fun of you for waiting to lose your virginity. I think it's amazing if that's your belief that you want to wait until you're married to have sex and you really would. It's great. man, that's amazing, I'm proud of you for that, I was making fun of the fact that presumably moments after you finished having sex for the first time, you pulled out your phone and said you just had sex, no, I'm not.

I'm going to talk about it. I could talk about this for hours. You wouldn't believe the restraint it took to not make a video about this a couple of months ago. I have a lot to say, but I didn't want to stir the pot any more than before. I already did it because he's a good guy. He's a good guy. He is very, very bad on the Internet. Good credit. Bad credit. No credit. No problem. You are dead? I'm clearly going to be one of the funniest people I've ever met. It's like that. a natural comedian and was so good on Vine now he's in LA himself doing stand-up comedy.

He's also done a couple of things with Super Deluxe that are just as high quality. I'm going to link them in the description because I think they are Very fun and well made, I think you should check them out, but that being said, a lot of people ask about this ghost. We all want to know if he ever got the Subaru from him. Unfortunately, he was riding his bike on the way to the Subaru dealership. to potentially get his hands on his new car, but along the way he was captured by the ragtag group of paranormal experts on the show Ghost Adventures.

The good news is that he was the first real ghost to be captured by one of those completely fake reality ghost TV shows. The bad news is, of course, that he's stuck in eternal captivity, but that's probably for the best because his credit score is truly terrible. Hello, and welcome to Adam and Patrick Perkins from Chili, who you may know because they were twins who blew up on Vine over the summer. 2015 and seemed poised to become the next big Vine stars, until a couple of months passed and they simply stopped posting, maybe they started to feel the pressure of having a lot of people paying attention to them or maybe they just wanted to. to have a normal life they were about to start college and maybe they just wantedfocus on that, which is fine, they don't all have to be famous, they still have an online presence mostly on Instagram and a bit on Twitter, but despite the limited information I was able to dig up that the Perkins twins are now the Perkins triplets, that It is just through the passage of time in the Miracle of Life that Perkins has spawned a new child and I dare say he might even be the cutest and now we take a moment to reflect on some of the people we have lost there you would eat my pants oh uh they're not dead I just don't know what happened to them kids I'm going to tell you an incredible story the story of How I Met Your Mother okay dad I I started I came pretty late in the game.

I didn't start until February 2015, so to set the stage a little at that point, I had just dropped out of college for the third time and was working at Popeyes. I knew what I wanted. To make a living as a comedian, I knew I wanted to do that, but I didn't know how I did improv at the time, but I wasn't that good at improv, but I saw what other people were doing. vine and how Vine itself had evolved in the year and a half or so it had been around and that piqued my interest, so I looked at that and thought, you know what?

If they can do it, I can do it. I'm going to be good at shopping and then I started on Vine and I wasn't good at Vine. It was pretty bad when it started and I think I deleted like 90 of the things I posted, but I guess mathematically that means that every 10th thing I posted wasn't that bad, so after a couple of months I finally got a little better. I built up some nice Vines, so after slowly climbing from 50 followers to 250 followers, finally in April, a couple of my Vines. it got pretty big, I have a Joe Jonas revine which is kind of a story as old as time, you know how many comedians don't have Joe Jonas to think of in their initial start, so after that I went from like 300 followers to 30 000 or so followers in a couple of weeks which was a kind of success I had never experienced on the internet before, it was amazing and then someone from Tosh.0 contacted me and asked if they could use my Vine on the show and I was.

Of course, damn, it feels good to be one, in such a short time I went from being an absolute nobody who worked at Popeyes to a person who had very little success on the Internet and still worked at Popeyes, so it's not a big change . I guess, but you know, it was a lot of great things at once, however, the coolest thing that happened and I'm just explaining all of this to give a little backstory, the most important thing that happened to me during this period of other important things it happened right before a girl commented on one of my Vines, specifically this Vine, at that point you have two phones so you don't know which one is ringing.

I'm using the other one to record and she was like oh my god. You are so cute and your Vines are like pure liquid gold. Now a normal person in this situation would probably just ignore this comment or at least smile and move on with their lives, but I, a non-normal person, decided to do the opposite and move on. You have to understand a lot at the time, I felt very alone and like a good detective, I wasn't about to turn down such a promising lead. I found his Instagram page in his Vine bio and looked at a couple of photos and it was like, uh, holy. she's perfect and so I texted her, got her phone number, we started texting and we got along really well, you know, everything was great except she lives in Arizona and I lived in Orlando so it was a annoying, but we get along very well.

We liked each other right away and it was like there was no pressure, we don't have to commit to anything, we just kept talking and we talked every day, like I said we texted every day for like a week. and then after a week she wanted to FaceTime and I was really nervous about FaceTime because I'm nervous about doing anything but I agreed and called her so we FaceTimed for six hours, seven hours, maybe all night , so we didn't just do it. I talked from the moment I got home from work until the moment I had to go to bed so I could get up to go to work the next day, but during this seven-hour face-to-face time she bought a plane ticket to come see me , so I think less than a week after talking to someone I'd never met, we agreed to come see each other and, uh, not murder each other.

I remember the couple months before we bought the ticket and then, but we didn't plan to see each other until June, so it was a couple of months and her family kept making fun of her and her friends like, oh, they're definitely going to make fun of you. cheat. I mean, we felt pretty good because we FaceTimed and we could see that we were real people. like I could have still murdered her if I wanted to but I didn't, I didn't want to um because things went pretty well and luckily she didn't murder me either, I think it was the best she had going for me at the time.

Even though she worked full time at a fast food restaurant she lived in Orlando, which is funny because generally nothing good comes from being a Floridian, but I will say that Orlando is a very good place to live if you want. hosting someone from out of town for a few days because you have Disney you have Universal which is way better than Disney you have Sea World which is just kidding don't go to Sea World and then I got the beach in every direction so we did all of that except Sea World, obviously because Sea World, but I remember it being a little awkward at first, it was definitely the first time any of us had done something like this where we were talking. someone for a few months before you meet them, you know, you can text someone all day, every day and talk on the phone from time to time, but it will still be a little different when you finally meet in person.

I think we had both kinds of expectations and it was a little strange like the first day, but then the next four or three days or whatever, we were the best days ever and each day was better than the last and we just taste. In the end we said okay, well we can't not do this, you know it's going to be hard to do it long distance, but we can't just stop it, it was something that wouldn't have worked if we didn't like each other as much as we do because long-term relationships distance sucked and there were many difficult moments, as you can see in these photos.

I wasn't always happy that it worked because we were both 21 or 22 and we both still have to like having our own lives so a long distance relationship can be good in that sense, you know, because it's like you have a couple of months, at least for us, we had a couple of months to focus on ourselves and me. Eventually I got a better job and I was getting better at Vine because I could focus on that and then every two or three months, they would have four days of vacation together, so it actually worked out well, you know?

And we did it for a year. and a half and I have many good memories of it, everything was great until the accident. Just kidding, this story has a happy ending. Now I think the most romantic possible ending to the story would be how I just couldn't stand it. I couldn't do long distances anymore. I had to be with the woman of my dreams, so I drove across the country and one day I showed up at her door and pulled out a ring and said, will you marry me? and she CR was crying and she said yes I'll do that and then we'd get married and I'd immediately get her pregnant and raise the kid to be the next Superman or something and then he'd be I don't know what I'm saying and then we'd drive my Honda Civic 2012 towards sunset and we would live happily ever after.

That's pretty much what happened, but it was more like, hey, we don't want to do long distance anymore, but we still like it. to each other, so let's move to the same place and yes, if you're going to move to me, then I have to give you this ring so I can show you what I'm committed to and that's what we did. She chose the ring. i paid it off quickly, side note guys, if you can get your girl to pick out her ring do it, it's a huge relief, it's a big decision that now you don't have to make, you just have to spend like you know, two thirds of the life savings, but he moved to Orlando, got the first two jobs he applied for and is still working both and loves it here.

I hope I love it here. I love being with her, you know, I can live with her. my best friend I sleep in the same bed as her every night, which we actually both agree is not that great, we wish we were thinking about buying bunk beds, you know, so we can have our own space, but it's like every Every time I think about it and we talk about this, we love telling this story. I met my wife, my future wife, because a girl commented on a video. She made the stupidest video she's ever made. She said, "Oh, you." you're cute and I'm like me 21 year old desperate horny was like you're cute too let's kiss and talk and stuff and then we did it and then now we're in the same house and we're married in principle why is it crazy and Vine is the best.

Really my main reason for telling the story is to show all the people who watch my videos and I really appreciate them, but I know there are many of you who watch my videos and you don't care about Vine, you didn't follow me on Vine, my YouTube account It's very different from what I did on Vine, it's like I understand that people watch my videos and don't always like my Vines. Now I hope to tell you and show you the things I have to do thanks to Vine and the fact that it is the reason I met my wife.

I hope you now understand why Vine is so important to me, why Vine is the most important. amazing experience for me and why I will always cherish this dear app some takeaways from the story uh I think the first time a cute girl comments something nice about something you do you should marry her not always maybe a small percentage the Most of the time they should do that, but it works for me. I hope this story has shown you that there is hope out there if you just shoot, you know, if you think someone is smart on the Internet, tell them they're cute. maybe you'll go out with them in the next two months or maybe if you tell someone too much that they're cute, then they'll issue you with a restraining order and that's cool too, you know?

Because it's like what better way to do it. It shows that you notice someone that by involving a lawyer, so I think it's a win-win, always shoot your shot, always respect Vine because I love it and always, uh, always don't do long distance, never do long distance because the long distance is garbage, I've already talked to you for about eight hours on Vine, so I think it's time we start putting this thing to rest, that's all. I guess the video ended at this point. I've spent so much time making this video that I don't even know if it's any good anymore, uh we'll see, as you can see it's taking a toll on me physically, my hair is a lot longer, I've grown a beard or at least my version of that , the last thing I want to address.

And I'll try to make this quick: The recent news is that I guess one of the founders of Vine is working on his own quote tracking app for Vine. It wasn't very specific on any details other than just keeping an eye, a lot of people were very excited about this, a lot of people were a little more skeptical about this, um, for me, I don't know, I mean, I just made a video of 12 hours about how I loved Vine, but honestly, I don't. I don't know if I wanted to go back, at least not in any form.

This involves a tracking application. It sounds like something similar to Vine but it's not Vine, so let's say that's it, it's an app similar to Divine, but it's not called Vine. It's called Loops um loops with a z, of course, and to make it stand out we're going to add more features that weren't originally on Vine. For example, now you're not limited to six seconds, you can do a full loop. 15 second video and it still repeats again with a z. You'll also be able to create a daily story because every social media app seems to have to have stories.

Also, you can also post images, so if you just want to give a quick little update to your fans on oh, I think we just made Instagram okay, so Vine comes back and it's just called Vine or God forbid Vine two. Vine two comes out and it's exactly the same as Vine, it was part of the reason for Vine. The initial failure was that they were always losing money, so you will need to add some kind of monetization system; otherwise Vine 2 will end up with the same fate as Fine One, so now you have an app that is the same. like Vine was, except with, let's say, ads between vineyards or in the corner of the screen or whatever, so it's a lesser product because now it's been diluted by the ads and no longer has the novelty value that it had I came when it first came out. because that was like five years ago at this point and it also doesn't offer anything that isn't available on another platform.

I don't want to be cynical, but I'm being cynical, I don't think it works, I guess. people would be very excited about itfor a month and then they will stop using it like they did before the creators slowly leave because there are more profitable uses of their time elsewhere and as they leave it, the content in the app will decrease. and so will the users who use it and it will have exactly the same ending as the original Vine, except I can't imagine it lasting three years this time. I imagine it will last about three months.

Call me cynical, but that's how I see it. We all have wonderful Vine memories, but sometimes it's okay for something to be just a memory. Good things can still come to an end. I have great childhood memories, that doesn't mean I want to be eight again. I love being an adult. I can do it. Whatever I want, I look back on Vine with all the love in the world, but that doesn't mean it has to exist again for me to appreciate it. You can cherish the memories, let it rest, move on, it's in the past, even if it comes back.

I will never be the same as before and that's okay, maybe I'm wrong and I'd love to be proven wrong. Something I've had to selfishly accept is that I think I'm glad it ended. Just because I know the kind of person I am, I accept complacency like it's nobody's business when things are going well for me. I don't always have the same motivation to work as hard as I should because I'm happy and that's something I'm trying to improve on myself, that's something I've gotten a little better at over time, but I know that a year ago the death of I came was the catalyst for figuring out what I was going to do next if I never left.

I don't know if I would have ever started YouTube. I always wanted to do it, but I never felt like I needed to because I was a famous Viner. I had 400,000 followers on Vine. I didn't want to start from scratch on YouTube and have to work a hundred times harder and learn how to use a real editing program that wasn't just iMovie on my phone. My thought process at the time was why would I do all that extra work when I already had Vine and then one day Vine died and everything I had spent two years building was taken away from me?

I was upset, I was angry, I regretted the fact that I didn't do it. I tried to spread my followers elsewhere on the Internet. I like hundreds of other viners who put all my eggs in the vine basket and then the basket broke, exploded destroying all my eggs in the process and now I'm infertile, but When Vine disappeared, my safety net disappeared with it, so that I had to deal with being irrelevant again for several months and had to try new things. I had to try different types of content and many of them didn't work. In the end I did it.

I discovered what people liked and what I liked to do. Work hard. I was very lucky. I emphasized that and now I'm about to quit my job to work on YouTube full time and that's something even at the peak of my career. Vine Success I didn't even imagine the possibility of leaving my full-time job to do Vine full-time, that was never a possibility for me, so if I'm one hundred percent honest, like I said, this video is about the truth for selfish reasons I think I'm glad he's dead it feels good to get that off my chest I loved Vine and now I love YouTube I'm elated to be able to do what I'm doing now and I'm so excited to be able to continue doing it and see where my life goes channel and where it takes me and if I ever get to be on the H3 podcast because that's all I really want, the good news is I've learned from my mistakes, Vine taught me.

I never put all my eggs in one basket because you never know what's going to happen and that's a mistake that I don't think I'll make again except obviously with YouTube because I don't think YouTube is going anywhere. YouTube is infallible. You've had a lot of good PR lately and I feel comfortable, guys, that's all. I want to thank all my beautiful little stinkers for watching this entire video. If you didn't watch the whole video, then that's really not the case. It matters because you didn't see this part anyway, now that I'm finally done with this huge project, I have a lot of ideas that I haven't had time to focus on and there's tons more content to come. a lot of new content is what I meant um and I could have said I hadn't said yet what I was going to spoil.

I also have an exciting merch announcement coming soon and I don't think I'm being too hyperbolic when I say this is going to be the best merch ever, seriously guys I'm changing the game so I hope you're ready for that, well, I really don't know what else to say now. um, I think it would be fun if after the world's longest video I ended it by just interrupting myself in the middle of a feeling in foreign time.