Seemingly, taking up Twitter was not sufficient to fulfill Elon Musk, because the tech mogul introduced that he’s, by some means, restoring the Vine archives.

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“Grok Imagine is AI Vine!” he stated in an X publish. “Btw, we recently found the Vine video archive (thought it had been deleted) and are working on restoring user access, so you can post them if you want.”

The announcement presently has 14.5 million views.

What is (was?) Vine?

For the uninitiated, Vine was TikTok earlier than TikTok even existed. Launched in 2013, Vine allowed customers to publish looping, 6-second movies. The short-form video app, in flip, rapidly turned comedic, and it wasn’t lengthy till Vine turned the house of dozens of viral moments that turned embedded in our popular culture consciousness.

It quickly turned one of many greatest apps ever. It was the preferred free app on the App Store in 2013, and in 2015, at its finest, Vine had 200 million energetic customers. However, the app was finally surpassed by rivals like Instagram, and it struggled to monetize its content material and turn into worthwhile total.

So, in January 2017, the app left the web.

What is the way forward for Vine?

Since then, Vine has continued to dwell on within the type of YouTube compilations, permitting customers to entry archived Vines as much as 2019. From that time on, nevertheless, no one might entry their outdated Vines.

It’s value noting that Twitter owned Vine, so it is sensible for Musk to have entry to the Vine archive, however what precisely does he plan to do with it?

Grok Imagine is the title of X’s upcoming generative AI video software, so maybe he’s bringing again Vine with an AI twist. Or, in what might be the extra doubtless situation, customers will simply be capable of entry their outdated movies.

Either method, his announcement actually prompted a stir on-line.

X reacts to Musk’s announcement

Many had solutions instantly. “Bring back Vine as a tab in the X app plz,” one prompt. “Make sure there’s a quick share button to DM videos to friends. This is like the most used feature on other short video platforms.”

“Holy s***,” one other added. “Please bring back Vine.”

Others shared their theories of what it’ll seem like—and their frustrtion with Musk.

“I’ve thought about it, and I doubt we’re getting a standalone Vine app,” a 3rd speculated. “Grok Imagine allows people to generate videos from text/image prompts, and it seems the default is six seconds. Vine videos were limited to 6s, too. So maybe that’s why Elon says Grok Imagine is AI Vine.”

@Geekeniero writes, “Translation: ‘We need content to train our AI. Let’s pretend it’s for nostalgia.”

“He is gonna turn Vine into a right wing echo chamber in no time,” provides @MotionCrave.

“We’re staying on TikTok, I fear,” stated X consumer @ilovayoungroyal.

Seemingly, all we are able to do now’s watch and wait. But figuring out Musk, we’ll doubtless be ready for a protracted, very long time.

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