I guess the data mining was the missing ingredient for popularity?

  • InfiniWheel@lemmy.one
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    8 months ago

    Some pre 2005 people are zoomers tho, the oldest zoomers are 24. Gen Alpha might be more fitting.

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      8 months ago

      Yeah I’m pre-2005 and still look back on Vine fondly. The difference I think is that Vine was genuinely kind of innocent. It didn’t have a massive corporate backing until the one that killed it, and there wasn’t really a way to monetize it back then. It was just a goofy place on the internet with weird, niche content that was also ubiquitous amongst the younger generations. It sadly laid the grounds for TikTok, but it needs to be remembered that Vine was killed because it wasn’t monetizable, at least not back then. It’s the difference between early internet and corporate internet.