Vine: Where Are They Now?

heaven stop you getting cream cheese all over the table honey I'm a retired police officer not a maid plus I'm fat and that's what makes my character funny [Laughter] fine you're right Kevin I love you [Applause] good evening everyone we interrupt this up oh come on not right now bring you the important story this is a really big news story that you won't want to miss be sure to state really every channel what is so important twitter has announced that their popular social media app vine will be closing its doors in the next couple months this moment the specific details of this move are unclear but one thing I know for certain is that if you're a minor and your only source of online relevance and health self-worth it's a number of buying followers you have than I imagine this news is simply devastating to my god I heard can you believe this no that's crazy they're shutting down fine what oh no I wasn't listening to that I'm on the news news news boy do I love the new ads I'm the news anchor which is weird because I didn't think I was am i why didn't I know this no you're not this is a sketch drew you're just playing all the characters characters you recorded that yesterday and now you're just playing it on the TV I'm not so sure I'm following alright clearly this is getting too meta did you just write this part in because you didn't know because I didn't know how to end this sketch yeah I figured nine-one-one hi I'd like to order a sandwich also you wrote a sketch that's supposed to take place one year ago just pickles ends the phone you gave yourself was a Motorola RAZR uh-huh do you think that people still used razor phones a year ago remember when people stop using razors can everybody please do me a favor and refrain from commenting on my little band-aid no I'm not gonna tell you how I hurt my finger and I'm definitely not gonna tell you how to use a cheese grater because apparently I don't know and I'm absolutely not gonna tell you why the only band-aids I own are from a movie called The Secret Life of pets which I've never heard of hello everybody and welcome back to the dumpster behind a Chili's today we're gonna be taking a little trip down memory lane specifically my memory as I don't have access to anybody else's and although this video will be filled with personal stories and experiences through my own eyes I think there will be something in this video for everybody particularly if you used to be a Viner or if you were ever just a big fan of vines as many of you may know it's been exactly one year since vine announced that they would be shutting down it's actually been a little bit more than a year depending on how long it takes me to make this video close enough and although it doesn't feel like it's been that long a lot has changed in the past year now every once in a while I will start watching one of the vine compilations that they're all over YouTube and I find myself watching these sometimes and seeing someone and being like what happened to them do you ever watch an old vine and I'm not just talking about like the popular Viners like Lele pons and those sort of people who have not moved on to other things obviously but some of the one-hit wonder vines like this guy you're my emo happened to him and with this being the anniversary of the death of vine I figured this would be a perfect opportunity to do a little bit of research and figure out where some of these prominent figures have disappeared to and because vine was such an enormous ly significant part of my life I wanted to have this one definitive video where I talked about pretty much my entire experience with vine how it changed my life well I think vine was good and why I also think vine was bad because obviously it had its flaws otherwise it would still exist today but for now let's go ahead and take a deep dive into the first ever segment of vine and there's supposed to be uh I got song [Music] cuz some kind in the mail today Deez Nuts ah daddy I laugh every time the Deez Nuts guy whose real name is Charles nuts is one of the most notorious figures to ever come from vine as you all know Charles went on to host his very own prank show on vh1 the Deez Nuts prank hour which ran for 12 seasons and is still the highest rated show in television history who can forget that season 6 crossover episode with Ashton Kutcher where they both thought they were pranking each other your despite strong ratings throughout its entire 600 episode run the Deez Nuts prank hour was cancelled back in August when they simply ran out of people to prank and he can't prank someone twice Zack stop Zack stop you're gonna get in trouble yeah this vine was called kicked too much and without a doubt it's one of my favorite vines ever but it does leave you with a lot of questions like why was he kicking so much why did his friends keep telling him not to well I guess it makes sense why they told him not to because he ended up getting arrested but it's a it's a pretty confusing vine and I continued to be confused about this for months until very recently I was just fed up of that and I decided to do a quick google search and I found out very quickly that he was simply arrested for reaching the legal kick limit in one day afterwards I became very angry at all the people who didn't do as much research as I did and continue to question this fine the answers were right in front of you you just had to google it and although it seems a little harsh that he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole the law is the law and you have to respect the law Iridessa cleitus unfortunately this kid did go on to lose this spelling bee after a late field goal in overtime but as all stories must have a happy ending he is currently the mayor of Sacramento this story does not have a happy ending after facing the worst public humiliation of his life this poor guy had to move to a different state where he was unable to get an apartment or even a job because he forgot his wallet Who am I let's go to the [ __ ] [ __ ] Ming came in judge corbin blue one of the most mysterious figures on vine after an anonymous Reddit user made a strong case that this corbin bleu is not the same corbin bleu from the High School Musical franchise people began to question the true identity of corbin however there is a rumor going around that I think sounds pretty convincing I apologize in advance for condoning a rumor that doesn't have a hundred percent tarred evidence to back it up but I feel very strongly about this one basically the rumor is that corbin bleu is spider-man they may be thinking that's ridiculous spider-man lives in New York while corbin bleu lives on the internet but there's a pretty convincing argument to be made that these two are in fact the same person for one let's take a look at Corbin's post schedule now I'm gonna go ahead and scroll down to 2015 because there's a pretty noticeable discrepancy in here there we go Corbin posted three times on October 16 2015 but then he didn't post again until the 28th of October nearly two weeks later now ask yourself where was Corbin now it stands to reason that if spider-man had a vine account he wouldn't be able to post every day because he'd be busy fighting the Green Goblin and whatever other villains he has and this wasn't just a one-time thing the behavior continues November 17th he posts and then not again until December 11th that's nearly a month Spiderman presumably fights a lot of crime and would be very busy and I imagine this is exactly the kind of post schedule he would be forced to maintain when you look at all this evidence combined it seems obvious that there's no other answer possible Corbin Bleu is spider-man there are a lot of people assume that this was Cole Hirsch playing a character just because they have the same snapchat account and they look very similar but if you ask me that isn't really enough evidence to say oh they're the same person like I said earlier this video is all about the truth everything in this video is true I did a lot of research to find out all these things about all these people and I think it would ruin my credibility as a video maker if I condone such ridiculous rumors without any real hard evidence plus it just seems very obvious that Corbin is spider-man ah we'll get back to that segment in a moment but first I want to talk a little bit about why I think vine was good and also why vine was bad because I think both are true the most important thing I want to make clear in this video is I am a million percent thankful to vine for what they allowed me to do and where they allowed me to go I want to talk honestly about what I think some of the problems with vine were um and I don't think it's like like I said I don't think it's that crazy to say that vine had its flaws because it doesn't exist anymore but ultimately I want to make it clear that I love vine I appreciate the hell out of vine and all the employees and the people I met and everyone that allowed me to be where I am today vine was a perfect place to start out on the internet to build a platform from scratch if you wanted to be an online content creator vine was the place to start it was easy to make vines it was easy for your vines to be seen vine was all about ideas because with vine the distance between an idea and the execution of that idea was very short you could have the idea for a vine and within a couple hours it exists roadwork ahead yeah I sure hope it does and then a few hours past that it's got a million loops and a bunch of Commons and likes and all this validation is given to you for the idea you had a couple hours ago so vine was great in that way but really what made vine great was the people on vine it was such a fun group of creators to be a part of because everyone was supportive of each other it'd be so fun to see your friend or just someone you fall and really like you see a vine they post you're like oh that's a great idea that's so funny that's fantastic they posted a couple minutes ago and you know that's gonna go viral and then you check back a few hours later it's got the little flame emoji next to the view count it's number one on the comedy page with things like vine and YouTube they can only exist with the people using them and they're only as good as the content creators on the app and vine for the most part had a fantastic group of creators and I don't think it was the quality of vines that led to its demise everything that led to its demise was more numbers they weren't making money that sort of thing but I think there was some really great content and really great people on vine now shifting the focus a little bit to what were some of vines flaws and I think a lot of the things that made vine good were unfortunately also the things that made vine doomed to fail in the same way that vine was accessible to creators it was also pretty limiting because it was six seconds long I can't tell you how many times I would sit there trying to edit a vine shorter and shorter and shorter and I could get it to like eight seconds nine seconds and it's just like I can't I can't make this any shorter I can't post this it was hard to fit a good joke into six seconds and sometimes so many vines were perfect at that length but as a creator you start using vine and as your ideas start to get more elaborate you need to go to other platforms to express those ideas even while vine was still around through a lot of 2016 I wasn't really using vine as much because I was trying to figure out you know I was at a point where it's like okay I've done buying for a little bit and I feel good about this I feel good about what I've done but what's next you know and I think a lot of people had that same thing vine was this great place to be but there was always that idea of like well I'm not gonna be here forever so what's next and that brings me to what I think is pretty much my main point on why I think vine was always doomed to fail the way I think of it is everybody has their own career ladder in their head where the top of the ladder represents total creative fulfillment if you were as successful as you could possibly imagine what does that look like and the top of the ladder is different for everybody maybe the ultimate fulfillment for you is you want to write a movie or you want to act in a TV show you want to be like Dwight from the office maybe that's your ultimate career goal or maybe you want to be just famous enough to get fourth place on Dancing with the Stars it's different for everybody so while every vine creators ladder was slightly different I think what they all had in common was that vine was not at the top in fact I think vine for most people was the bottom step it was the first step and there's nothing wrong with that I don't mean to disparage vine in any way but I think for most people no one had success on vine and was like I'm gonna do this forever because it just didn't seem to work out that way it didn't seem viable he was great for starting out but once you get to a point where it's like okay where do I go with this it was usually the next place to go is somewhere else so going back to the latter analogy if vine is the first step that means two things one it was accessible enough to be reached from the ground but the ultimate job of the first step of the ladder is to propel you to the next step of the ladder and so that's what vine was it was 100% necessary first step that would propel people further along I imagine this type of thing made it very difficult to be an employee at vine or someone who had a large role at vine because they would probably see these very talented people come in and use vine to go do something else like they came and they got what they came for but ultimately they just needed to leave and do something else from the rest of my career no matter what I do whether I completely fizzle out and never do anything or whether I go on to be a millionaire movie maker I will owe my start to vine it doesn't matter how talented or funny I think I am I am recognized now as an online entertainer because of vine failing to express gratitude for the thing that got you where you are now shows a complete and utter lack of self-awareness going back to the latter analogy it's pretty easy when you're on that second step to look down at the ground and see how far you've come but let's not forget that when you were on the ground you couldn't reach that second step without the first one halo again so these guys were both pretty popular and vine I haven't seen much of them in a while though so I'll have to look into that on all levels except physical I am off shout-out to the Twitter follower who sent me this paparazzi photo that was taken a couple weeks ago with this guy one of the first things you'll notice is that this is a picture of a wolf and that he is a wolf now on all levels including physical take another life coach just give me a sec give me a sec give me a sec bootie this family is such a perfect encapsulation of what made vine so special every once in a while you'd find someone and just just marvel at the fact that they exist that there's someone out there like that because the young girl Jay Rose is so interesting on her own the way she sings there's too much drama at school all you gotta do is walk away yeah yeah and even just the way she's branded herself gyro but on top of that you add in her uncle your uncle your uncle you add in her grandma or her aunt I'm not actually sure you've got that right honey and it's all about the cook also you look at a bind like this yeah take a look on the babes for days which makes sense you know it has a set up in a punch line but then you realize that the babes for days that they're talking about two of them are like 10 years old we're just gonna gloss over that I got your drink up this makes me miss vine because this reminds me of like all the weird people you discover and it just they leave you with so many questions who are these people what is this family and why don't they have their own reality show well I actually found out that they do uncle's home well premiere its first season next month it's a YouTube read exclusive email man what he got just as I don't love in my opinion Danny was one of the best Finers he was very popular because he was able to make vines that were relatable enough for everybody to understand but there is so much better than all of the other relatable vines and Viners that existed because he's a legitimately hilarious person if you liked him on vine he's still making youtube videos now and if you're not already subscribed you should go check him out the only thing with Danny and he might get mad that I even brought this up but I feel like I should say something about this because if you click on any of his videos all the comments are about this but a few months ago Danny was diagnosed with permanently upside-down disease for those of you who don't know it's basically a disease where an otherwise healthy persons physical body is upside down permanently you know Danny's a really funny guy but it admittedly can be kind of tough to watch his videos because it's so disorienting to see someone who's just upside down the whole time like I said all his comments are about that people seem to be frustrated and confused but props to Danny for not just editing the video so it looks like he's right-side up because if he were to do that then he would no longer be raising awareness for a very real condition that affects millions of person and that's something you simply can't put a price on if you ask me though I think he needs to [ __ ] fix that [ __ ] in Premiere it's gross and I don't like it without a doubt the best memory I have from vine and one of the best memories I have from my whole life so far is getting to work on camp unplug camp unplug more like camp run plugs like camp I plug my jacket for those of you who don't know what camp unplug is that's probably most of you let me explain it so in March of 2016 I got a message on Twitter from this guy Jeremy who works at vine and at first like I couldn't believe it was real he asked if I wanted to be a part of this series that they had written and we're gonna film over the summer and they were gonna fly us out to this camp in Wisconsin and then they were gonna take us to VidCon as like featured creators they were gonna do all these things and pay for all this stuff for us almost everybody on the list I had heard of and was a fan of they're fine so not only was I gonna be a part of this awesome thing but I'd get to meet all these people up until this point I hadn't met set for maybe a couple other Viners who happen to live in Orlando I hadn't really met any creators from vine and so it was so exciting to meet these people who had watched for all this time and actually meet them in real life it also made me a little nervous because I didn't know if I'm I think I'm funny or in real life than I was on vine but there's there was also part of me was like oh I hope they like me which is pretty much just my constant mental state before I do anything what was so cool about it was that they gave us a script Chris Mel burger shooting and Jeremy wrote a great script but everything within the whole project was also 100% collaborative so the first night we got there were sitting down at the table reading the old script and whirled in our lines and any time someone had an idea like oh maybe my character should say this instead it was like there wasn't there was never any sense of like ah maybe you should just do what's in the script you know it was like everyone had their own ideas and everyone's ideas were listened to another thing that specifically for me that was so cool that I got to be invited to this was like at the time when they first asked me I think I only had like a hundred thousand followers which is it's good but there were probably thousands of people who had more followers than me certainly just among the group of people there most of the people there had over a million they were some of the biggest Viners I know Cody had about 2 million Danny had over 1 million maybe he had 2 million at the time Lauren Geraldo had like three million Victor Pope all these people all these people had had so many more followers than I did if it wasn't for this I don't think I would have ever had any vines with any of these people just because I don't live in LA and I didn't then and I still don't and nobody lives in Florida except for like Tiger Woods but I don't know if that would be a good PR move if I had started collaborating with Tiger Woods in conjunction with the release of camp unplug was also vines release of this feature where you could attach longer videos to your vines and that was really the only way this story could be told on the vine platform and couldn't just be a bunch of little six-second scenes so the way camp unplugged was told was you have these like two to five minute long scenes then as these fictional campers have some downtime they get into their own little antics you go you and I go you should jump Oh piss off off this fine I will it was so cool to [ __ ] it was so cool to be a part of that you're probably waiting for me to like get to the point here right now it's just me gushing about these memories I have and the people I got to meet but that's really that's all it is I just I look back and I gosh it the fact that I got to do this like I alluded to they also invited us to VidCon now if you've never been to VidCon and I'd like to go back but this was my one and only time going to VidCon so far it comes crazy VidCon is it's it's a whole different world because you've got this entire subsection of humanity all come packed into one place I don't know if I'll ever feel like as much of a celebrity as I did that weekend the fact that I was technically a featured creator they had their whole booth set up it was one of the the ones near the front they had these big LED screens and my big dumb face would cycle through every once in a while so that was crazy but they also took us to Disneyland which was awesome they rented out this whole section of Denny's nearby so every night between like 9 p.m. and 3 a.m. or something you know you'd have all these drunk creators going there all the food was free we lit you could order whatever you wanted off the menu and it was so free to the point where you would see like people would come in drunk and order something and then not wait for it and you just see like a big stack of nachos just untouched we vine celebrities really abused the hell out of that whole experience but definitely yeah definitely the best one of the best experiences of my life and something that I felt like I had to talk about you know if I'm gonna make this whole video [ __ ] I am so glad I get to take this off now it is so hot it's like 80 degrees in my apartment because I have to turn the a/c off while I film because it's very loud and Jesus Christ uh this I feel good this feels good man hello yeah can I just get like a raw potato and a spoon and then just an egg get to drink thank you sweetheart oh hey we're back to Bros chillin in the hut 5 feet apart cuz they're not gay this was a pretty big headline at the time so you sure you guys already heard about this but basically as the night went on the two bros so as to not be confused for being in a homosexual relationship slowly drifted further and further apart from each other until they both ended up in the middle of the ocean where they were tragically eaten by two different dolphins I was later revealed that those dolphins were in fact married and that is ironically a pretty gay way to die legend has it that this boy is still running no one knows where he is or how far he's run or if he'll ever come back his friends have moved on and so is his family they've replaced his room with a room that's just filled with water all the time no one goes in and no one comes out Tyrone you notice your baby Cole a brand the whitest and boys east of dim white boys if not from vine you may know Cole from his YouTube channel where he and his wife like to film her three-year-old daughter getting hurt you may also know him from that time he tweeted about losing his virginity on his wedding night and then blocked me when I made a really good joke about it Cole I wasn't making fun of you for waiting to lose your virginity I think that's awesome if that's your belief that you want to wait till you're married to have sex and you'd actually do that's great man that's awesome that's I'm proud of you for that I was making fun of the fact that presumably moments after you've finished having sex for the very first time you pulled out your phone and said just had sex no I'm not gonna talk about it I could talk about this for hours you guys would not believe the restraint it took to not make a video about this a couple months ago a lot to say but I didn't want to stir the pot any more than I already did because Cole he's a nice guy he he's a nice guy he's just really really bad at the internet no no problem but you did go straight Road Victor Pope jr. is sincerely one of the funniest people I've ever met he is such a natural comedian and he was so good at vine right now he's in LA doing stand-up he's also done a couple things with super deluxe that are just such high-quality I'm gonna link those in the description because I think they're so funny and well made and I think you should check them out but that being said a lot of people are asking about this ghost we all want to know did he ever get his Subaru unfortunately he was riding his bike on his way to the subaru dealer to potentially get his new car but on the way he was captured by the ragtag group of paranormal experts on the show Ghost Adventures the good news is he was the first real ghost that was ever captured by one of those entirely fake reality ghost television shows the bad news is of course he is trapped in eternal captivity um but it's probably for the best because his credit score really is just terrible Adam hi welcome to chili Adam and Patrick Perkins who you might know as patchy were twins who blew up on vine in the summer of 2015 and they seemed poised to become the next big vine stars that is until a couple months went by and they sort of just stopped posting perhaps they started to feel the pressure of having a lot of people paying attention to them or maybe they just wanted to have normal lives they were about to start college and maybe they just wanted to focus on that which is fine not everybody has to be famous they still have an online presence mostly on Instagram a little bit on Twitter but despite limited information I was able to dig up that the Perkins twins are now the Perkins triplet that's right through the passage of time in the miracle of life a new Perkins boy has spawned and dare I say he might even be the cutest and now we take a moment to reflect on some of the people would you not eat my pants [Music] oh they're not dead I just don't know what happened to them kids I'm gonna tell you an incredible story the story of How I Met Your Mother okay dad I started buying pretty late in the game I didn't start until about February 2015 and so to set the scene a little bit at the time I had just dropped out of college for like the third time and I was we're gonna pop eyes I knew I wanted to be a comedian for a living like that's I knew I wanted to pursue that but I didn't know how I was doing improv at the time but I wasn't that good at improv but I saw what some other people were doing on vine and how vine itself had sort of evolved in the year and a half or so that it had been around and that piqued my interest and so I looked at that and I was like you know what if they can do it I can do it I'm gonna be good at vine and then so I started vine and I wasn't good at vine I was pretty bad at it when it started and I think I deleted like 90% of the things I posted but I guess mathematically that does mean that every tenth thing I posted was not that bad so you know after a couple months I eventually got a little bit better I accumulated some good vine so after slowly crawling my way up from 50 followers to like 250 followers finally in April a couple of my vines got pretty big I got a Joe Jonas revine that's just sort of a tale as old as time you know how many comedians don't have Joe Jonas to thank for their initial stars so then after that I went from like 300 followers to 30,000 or so followers in like a couple weeks which is a type of success I had never experienced on the internet before it was amazing and then I got reached out to from someone at tosh point-o asking if they could use my vine on the show and I was like of course okay I feel good to be so in such a short amount of time I went from an absolute nobody who worked at Popeyes to a person who had a very small amount of internet success who still worked at Popeyes so not much of a change I guess but it was you know there's a lot of cool things all at once however the coolest thing that happened and I'm only explaining all this to sort of give a little bit of a backstory the most important thing that happened to me during this period of other important things haven't right before a girl commented on one of my vines specifically this fine that moan you have to phone so you don't know which one is ringing using the island record and she said oMG you are so cute and your vines are like pure liquid gold now a normal person in this situation would probably just ignore this comment or the very least smile and move on with their lives but me a not normal person decided to do the opposite and pursue it heavily you have to understand at the time I was very lonely and like a good detective I was not about to turn down such a promising lead I found her Instagram page from her vine bio and I looked at a couple pictures was like holy [ __ ] and she's perfect and then so I messaged her I got a phone number we started texting and gone along really well you know everything was great except oh [ __ ] she lives in Arizona and I lived in Orlando so that was kind of a bummer but we got along really well we kind of liked each other right away and so it was like you know didn't no pressure we don't have to commit to anything let's just keep talking and so we talked every day like I said we texted every day for like a week and then after a week she wanted to FaceTime and I was very nervous to FaceTime because I nervous to do anything but I agreed and I called her so we facetimed for six hours seven hours maybe the whole night so not only do we talk from the moment I got home from work until the moment I had to go to bed so I could wake up for work the next day but during the seven hour FaceTime she bought a plane ticket to come see me so I think less than a week into talking to someone who I've never met we agreed to come see each other and not murder each other I remember like the couple months before like we bought the ticket and then but we didn't plan to see each other till like June so it was a couple months and her family kept making fun of her and her friends like oh you're definitely gonna get catfished the thing that I mean we felt pretty good because we did FaceTime and we could see that we were real people like I still could have murdered her if I wanted to I didn't I didn't want to because things went pretty well and luckily she didn't murder me either I think the best thing I had going for me at the time even though I worked full-time at a fast food restaurant was that I lived in Orlando which is kind of a funny thing to say because generally nothing good comes from being a Floridian but I will say Orlando is a very good place to live if you want to host someone from out of town for a few days because you've got Disney you've got Universal which is way better than Disney you've got SeaWorld which just kidding don't go to SeaWorld and then you've got the beach in like every direction so we did all of that except for SeaWorld obviously because [ __ ] SeaWorld but I remember being a little awkward at first it was definitely the first time either of us had done something like this where we talked to someone for like a few months before meeting them you know um and like you can text someone all day every day and talk on the phone every once in awhile but it's still gonna be a little bit different when you finally meet in person I think we'd both kind of set up expectations and it was a little bit weird like the first day but then the next four days or three days or whatever we're like the best days ever and every day was better than the one before and we just liked each other so much by the end of it that it was like alright well we can't not do this you know it's gonna be tough to do long-distance but we can't just uh it was something that wouldn't have worked if we didn't like each other as much as we did because long-distance relationships do suck and there were plenty of difficult times as you can see in these pictures I was not always happy it worked out because we were both like 21 or 22 and we both still had to like kind of get our own life's lives in order a long-distance relationship can be good and in that way you know because it's like you have a couple months at least for us we had a couple months to focus on ourselves and I got a better job eventually and I was getting better at vine because I could focus on that and then every like two or three months you have a four day vacation together so it actually worked out alright you know and we did that for like a year and a half and I have a lot of great memories from that everything was great the accident just kidding this story has a happy ending no I think the the most romantic ending possible for the story would be how I I just couldn't take it anymore I couldn't do long-distance I had to be with the woman of my dreams so I drove across the country and I just showed up at her doorstep one day and I popped out a ring and I said will you marry me and she was crying and she said yes I will do that and then we would be married and then immediately I get her pregnant and we would raise the kid into like the next Superman or something and then he would be I don't know what I'm and then we would drive my 2012 Honda Civic into the sunset and we would live happily ever after that's sort of what happened but it was more like hey we don't want to do long-distance anymore but we still like each other so let's move to the same place and if if you're gonna move to me then I got to give you this ring so I can show you that I'm committed to and so that's what we did she picked out the ring I paid for it quick sidenote fellas if you can get you a girl to pick out your ring for you do it it's a huge relief it's a huge decision you now don't have to make you only have to spend like you know two-thirds of your life savings on it but she moved to Orlando she got the first two jobs she applied for and she's still working both of those and she loves it here I hope I love it here I love to be with her you know I get to live with my best friend I got to sleep in the same bed as her every night which actually we both agree isn't that good we kind of wish we're kind of thinking of getting bunk beds you know so we can have our own space but it's like it's just like every time I think about it and we talked about this we'd love to tell this story I met my wife my future wife because a girl commented on a video I made the stupidest video ever that I made she was like oh you're cute and I'm like me the horny desperate 21 year old was like you're cute too let's kiss let's let's talk and stuff and then we did and then our in the same house and we're married in principle wife's freaking crazy and vine is the best really my main reason for telling the story is to show all of the people out there to watch my videos and I'm so appreciative of you guys but I know there's some of you a lot of you who watched my videos and you don't give a [ __ ] about fine you didn't follow me on vine my YouTube account is so different than what I made on vine it's like I understand that people watch my videos and they don't always like my vines now I hope by telling you by showing you the things I got to do because the vine the the fact that it is the reason I met my wife I hope you guys understand now why vine is so important to me why vine is the was the most amazing experience for me and why I will always cherish this beloved app some takeaways from the story do I think the first time a cute girl comments something nice on a thing you make that you should get married to her every time maybe a small percentage of the time you should do that but it works for me I hope that this story showed you guys that there is hope out there if you just shoot your shot you know if you think someone is acute on the internet town they're cute maybe you'll be dating them in the next two months or maybe if you tell someone they're cute too much then they'll put out a restraining order for you and then that's cool too you know because it's like like what better way to show that you notice someone than by getting a lawyer involved so I think it's a win-win always shoot your shot always respect vine because I love it and always always don't do long distance always never do long distance cuz long distance is trash I've already talked to you for about eight hours now about vine so I think it's time we start wrapping this up oh that's it I guess videos over right at this point I've spent so long making this video that I don't even know if it's good anymore we'll see as you can tell it's taking quite the physical toll on me my hair is a lot longer I've grown out a full beard or at least my version of that the last thing I want to address and I'll try to make this quick is the recent news that I guess one of the founders of vine is working on his own quote follow-up app to vine he wasn't super specific on any details other than just to like keep an eye out a lot of people were pretty excited about this a lot of people were a little bit more skeptical about this for me I don't know I I mean I just made a 12 hour video about how I loved vine but honestly I don't know if I want it to come back at least not in whatever form this entails a follow up app sounds like something that's similar to fine but isn't vine so let's say that's what it is it's a similar app divine but it's not called vine it's called like loops loops with with a Z of course and to make it stand out we're gonna add in more features that weren't originally on vine for example now you're not limited to 6 seconds you can do a full 15-second video and it still loops again loops with a Z also you'll be able to make a daily story because every social media app seems to have to have stories in it in addition you can also post pictures so if you just want to give like a little quick update to your fans on oh [ __ ] I think we just made Instagram okay so vine comes back and it's just called vine or god forbid vine to vine to comes out and it's exactly the same as vine was well part of the reason vine failed initially was that they were always losing money and so you're gonna need to add some sort of monetization system in place otherwise vine too is going to end up with the same fate as vine one so now you have an app that's the same as vine was except with let's assume ads in between vines are like in the corner of the screen or whatever so it's a lesser product because it's now been diluted by ads it also no longer has the novelty value that vine had when it first came out because that was like five years ago at this point and on top of this it doesn't offer anything that isn't already available on another platform not to be cynical but I am being cynical I don't think it would work out I think people would be really excited about it for a month and then they're gonna stop using it like they did before the creators are gonna slowly leave because there's more profitable uses of their time elsewhere and as they leave the content on the app will dwindle and so will the users who use it and it will have the same exact end as the original vine did except I don't picture it lasting three years this time I picture it lasting like three months call me cynical but that's just how I see it we all have wonderful vine memories but sometimes it's okay for something to just be a memory good things can still come to an end I have great memories from childhood that doesn't mean I want to be 8 again I love being an adult I can do whatever I want I look back on vine with all the love in the world but that doesn't mean it has to exist again for me to cherish it you can cherish memories let it rest move on it's in the past even if it comes back it'll never be the same as it was and that's alright maybe I'm wrong and I would love to be proven wrong something I have had to come to terms with selfishly is that I think I think I'm glad that vine ended just because I know the type of person I am I embrace complacency like nobody's business when things are going well for me I don't always have the same motivation to work as hard as I should because I'm content and that's something I'm trying to improve about myself that's something I've gotten a little better at over time but I know that a year ago vine dyeing was the catalyst for me to figure out what I was going to do now if I never went away I don't know if I ever would have started YouTube I always wanted to but I never felt like I needed to because I was a famous Viner I had 400,000 followers on vine I didn't want to start from scratch on YouTube and have to do like a hundred times more work and learn how to use a real editing program that wasn't just iMovie on my phone my thought process at the time was why would I do all of that extra work when I already had vine and then one day vine died and everything I had spent two years building up was pulled out from under me I was upset I was angry I regretted the fact that I hadn't tried to spread my followers around to other places on the internet I like hundreds of other Viners put all of my eggs in the vine basket and then the basket broke it exploded destroying all of my eggs in the process and now I'm infertile but when vine went away my safety net went away with it and so I had to deal with being irrelevant again for several months and I had to try new things I had to try different types of content and a lot of it didn't work some of it did eventually I figured out what people liked and what I liked doing I worked hard I got super lucky emphasis on that and now I'm about to quit my job to do YouTube full-time and that's something that even at the height of my vine success I never even fathomed the possibility of quitting my full-time job to just do vine full-time that was never a possibility for me and so if I'm being a hundred percent honest which like I said this video is all about the truth for selfish reasons I think I'm glad that vine died feels good to get that off my chest I loved vine and now I love you too I'm ecstatic to be able to do what I'm doing now and I'm so excited to get to continue to do it and see where my channel goes and where it takes me and if I ever get to be on the h3 podcast because that's all I really want the good news is I've learned from my mistakes vine taught me to never put all of my eggs in one basket because you never know what's going to happen and that's a mistake I don't think I'm going to make again except obviously with YouTube because I don't think YouTube's going anywhere YouTube's infallible they've gotten along good PR lately and I just feel comfortable alright guys that's it I want to thank all my beautiful little stinkers out there for watching this entire video if you didn't watch the whole video then it doesn't really matter because you didn't see this part anyway now that I'm finally done with this massive project I have a lot of ideas that have that I haven't at any time to focus on so lots and lots of more content coming lots of new content is what I meant to say and I could have just said I hadn't already said the thing that I was going to mess up I also have an exciting merchant on sment coming pretty soon and I don't think that I'm being too hyperbolic when I say this is going to be the greatest merch of all time seriously guys I'm changing the game so I hope you're ready for that all right well I don't really know what else to say now I think it would be funny if after the world's longest video I end it by just cutting myself off in the middle of a sentence [Music] ten tents

Channel: Drew Gooden

Views: 6,510,795

Rating: 4.9141212 out of 5

Keywords: drew gooden, comedy, funny, vine, drew gooden vine, former viner, parody, original, danny gonzalez, where are they now?, what happened to vine?, game show, cole hersch, victor pope jr, camp unplug, vine tribute, rip vine, viners, vine compilation, old vines, best vines, best viners, funny vines

Id: Strwla1ELdA

Length: 48min 9sec (2889 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 07 2017

Reddit Comments

[u/Clashin_Creepers]

That would be great!

[u/monnlion]

Please let this happen! ^{^}

[u/Uniquehorseradish]

Drew gooden is awesome and hillarious , I would love to see him on the podcast!

[u/[deleted]]

I wanted to post about this. Drew is a top dude, I'd love to see him on the podcast. He has some great experiences and stories from coming up on Vine, and I think it'd be cool for H3 to invite some more up and coming youtubers like him or Bobby Burns.

[u/[deleted]]

I was thinking Drew Gooden the ex-NBA player and I got hyped as fuck. Who is this bozo?

[u/Dimentive]

Even though this guy has 435K subscribers, he’s still underrated. While I never followed him on Vine, his YouTube videos are hilarious. They always make me laugh.

I would love to see Drew on the H3 Podcast!

[u/goofsngaffs89]

So confused I thought this was about the mediocre basketball player.

[u/Dimentive]

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