So far, the revival of Vine d’Elon Musk is really disappointing

For some time now, Elon Musk promises to bring Vine back. At the time, the short -term tiktok precursor allowed users to publish 6 -second videos that have completed and could be easily shared. However, like Tesla’s billionaire’s plans for the short-circuited video distributor appear, it seems more and more that he (as usual) has all excited us for nothing.

Vine, bought by Twitter in 2012, has officially died for just over half a decade now. After Twitter killed downloads from the application videos in 2016, the Vine archives substituted for about three years until 2019, when the platform fired the support. Since then, everything that has survived is a nostalgia for these days of halcyon when short video was new and inducing joy, instead of being a must in our increasingly frantic information landscape.

Musk initially launched the idea of bringing the video sharing application back in 2022, shortly after buying Twitter. Since then, he has repeatedly teased the return of the application, to the pleasure of users of the site. Last April, Musk again spoke of Vine’s resusciation with one of his many X surveys. “Bring back the vineyard?” He asked. A large majority of respondents voted “yes”. In January, an X user tweeted Musk: “Think it’s time to bring him back.” And Tesla’s CEO personally replied: “We examine it.”

However, as Vine’s “return” has approached, it seems more and more clear that the application may not be exactly how you remember it. Musk promised that the archives of the old Vine videos on Musse would come back in form. However, it seems more and more doubtful that the application is an active service that users can use to make new videos. Instead, Musk suggested that the new Grok IA video generator, Imagine (who, Musk has boasted, can be used to create NSFW equipment), will work on replacement.

“Grok Imagine is a vine!” Musk wrote, in an X post on Saturday. Few information has been shared, but she left the spectators with the sad suspicion that the new vine will not resemble the video clips fed by the pleasure of yesteryear and that it will be more to recondition the porn slope generated by AI which takes control of everyone’s flows.

Musk does he say that Grok Imagine is the new vine? Or will a new version of Vine be launched by X, alongside the archives of the old videos? It is not clear at the moment. If the resurrection of Vine ends up being an AI video application of Grok, with Musk overcoming him a “return” of Vine, then we will have all been taken for a journey, once again. Gizmodo contacted X for more information.

That said, it’s not like someone really needed vines now. The application occupies a special place in the history of American technology, in that it has preceded many other short video services which have become omnipresent by copying its commercial model (see: Reels and Tiktok). However, despite being a pioneer in the category of applications whose main societal contribution was the reduction in our collective attention duration, he seems to have found success a little too early. After the acquisition by Twitter of the application, he experienced a few good years before facing a boom of these competing applications which ultimately exceeded him.