The End of Vine (ft. Izzy from Be Kind Rewind)
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4.5 • 613 Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2023
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
When Vine died, the angels cried. No but seriously, in this era of late-stage internet, when it feels like politics, groupthink, and all around bad vibes are all exploding at once, it makes sense that we’re yearning for a simpler time. Who wouldn’t miss the innocence of silly, 6 second videos made for no reason other than to make us laugh? But was Vine as awesome as we remember, or are our memories a bit rose-tinted? In this season 3 finale, Hannah and Maia are joined by Izzy from Be Kind Rewind (otherwise known as Bestie™) to reminisce about Vine’s cultural impact, and Izzy’s experience working for the company. Digressions include: a debate about whether Vine is the Quebec of social media giants, Maia trying to explain jokes to listeners, and Hannah’s “continual brain farts”.
SOURCES
John Herrman, “Vine Changed the Internet Forever. How Much Does the Internet Miss It?” The New York Times, (2020)
Janko Roettgers, “Twitter is Shutting Down Vine” Variety (2016)
Julia Alexander, “The golden age of Youtube is over” The Verge (2019)
Brian Patrick Eha, “Why Vine Was a Bad Match for Twitter” The New Yorker (2016)
Mike Isaac, “Twitter’s 4-Year Odyssey With the 6-Second Video App Vine” New York Times (2016)
Hua Hsu, “Vine and the New Gatekeepers of Self-Expression” The New Yorker (2016)
Katie Rogers, “5 Vine Stars Share Why They Loved, and Outgrew, Platform” The New York Times (2016)
Romano Santos, “In Memory of Vine, Which Crawled so Tiktok Could Fly” Vice (2022)
Mat Honan, “Why Vine Just Won’t Die”, Wired (2013)
Lizzie Plaugic, “Vine was an underrated source of joy on the internet. Is it me, or does the internet feel less happy today.” The Verge (2016)
Taylor Lorenz, “A Vine Reunion? Video Apps Clash and Byte Join Forces.” The New York Times (2021)
Aja Romano, “You may not have understood Vine, but its demise is a huge cultural loss.” Vox (2016)
Brian Feldnman, “The Untold Story of What Happened After ‘Back at it Again at Krispy Kreme,’ The Best Vine of All Time”, Intelligencer (2016)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | funny to find you here. |
| 0:02.6 | Yeah, what are the odds? |
| 0:04.3 | But only one of us can rule this town. |
| 0:07.8 | I challenge you to a duel. |
| 0:09.8 | What would we duel with if we were dueling? |
| 0:12.2 | What do you mean? |
| 0:13.2 | Like, what would our method of duel be? |
| 0:16.1 | Aren't there like there's basically two? |
| 0:18.2 | There's swords or there's guns? |
| 0:21.4 | A joist. |
| 0:22.6 | I think you'd be more handy than me with a sword. |
| 0:26.8 | We did do sword play in high school, and that's a skill that for some reason I have. |
| 0:32.2 | But I wonder who is better aim? |
| 0:35.7 | I don't know. We're both useless. |
| 0:59.9 | But a duel with words. Oh, a duel of wit. A duel of wit. Oh, God, I'm not very witty. I'm not very witty either. No, I actually, it's like shameful. How unwitty I am. We're watching drag race right now, and it's just like, every time I watch them do the competitions where they have to be witty, like snatch game or something, I'm like, I could quite literally never do that. |
| 1:04.1 | Or even just like their rapport and like to have rapport with somebody. |
| 1:04.7 | Ugh. |
| 1:05.7 | Bantor? |
| 1:06.3 | Bantor? |
| 1:06.8 | What is that? |
| 1:09.7 | Witty banter, not this girl, not I. |
| 1:16.5 | Speaking of wit, this week's episode is about Vine. |
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