R.I.P Vine: A QS Tribute | The best place to laugh about skateboarding
Vine is dead. While skateboarders were some of the first to take to Instagram, for whoever reason (and Quartersnacks has some reasons) Vine never really took to the masses. But it did provide some LOL moments. If you can watch the above video with a straight face you are a monster.
“Lurker Lou once dubbed Vine “the wild west of social media.” It had no rules; easy-share videos were still a new concept in 2013 and part of the fun was watching everyone figure it out. People did so in different ways. Vine was the original breeding place for the visual vocabullary that makes up the beloved Dime Instagram videos of today. Other people took bits from the greater Vine ecosystem and remixed them into skateboarding, e.g. throwing a “boy if you don’t!” after Dave Bachinsky’s El Toro downplay. It was also the best place to receive a barrage of highlights from any video part that dropped earlier in the day, or somewhere to to clown skateboarding in a playful tone that barely exists on Instagram, where everyone is promoting something.
Nobody was trying to get sponsored off Vine, which made it a special place to share skateboarding, and more importantly, laugh at it.”
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