Short Form videos are everywhere in 2025. From Tiktok to Instagram, YouTube, and Snapchat, there's no shortage of options to resort to when considering experiencing this particular itch. However, the landscape is not necessarily so vast, and not all the early pioneers of short content have produced their evolution unharmed.
Snapchat was definitely the first snowball to roll here, but it didn't take long for Vine to continue. And it was acquired by Twitter before Vine even had the opportunity to release a mobile app. That early Twitter interest really helped drive the platform's success, and that 6-second clip limit encouraged creativity from a new generation of creators.
But a few years later, everyone was basically taking their own take on their own Vine. Many social platforms showcase native support for short videos. And when Twitter began robbing Vine and blocking new uploads before shutting down the service completely, Tiktok showed up to essentially steal Vine's crown.
It was basically the world we lived in for the past eight years, and the vines were relegated to the memory of short-form video nostalgia. But 2025 is a messy and strange year, and anyone with the power of Iota can quickly get away with the worst ideas they can think of.
So of course That includes Elon Musk.
Yesterday on Nutwitter, Musk ominously posted his intention to bring Vine back to “AI Form.”
That phrase alone should be enough to send a small amount of cold to your spine. Retrieving what you have already performed the course can be a sufficient proposition in itself, but this is actually pushing a red flag into our throats when the effort quickly tries to transform that nostalgia into something new. Pogs doesn't save ALF, and AI doesn't save Vine.
The biggest problem here is how “vinega ai” looks like. At a high level, it's not difficult for Musk and his fellow AI supporters to imagine a system that gets user input (or not just knows what they need based on past analysis) when no other limiting factors are in play, and to think about stoking out the generated short video content infinitely.
To a particular mind, it probably sounds perfect. The only way to pursue a concern is the service that lets users say what they want and show them. Of course, it's not now So We've alienated the idea that we don't even need to talk about it, it's also not near what's approaching economically viable.
Pogs doesn't save ALF, and AI doesn't save Vine.
Tools like Google's VEO 3 may feel like AI-powered bottomless video spigot is waiting for us to open up, but for now, such solutions are too slow to be practical at any scale that a public video app needs and have power.
Okay, so what else can you do? Well, the next best (worst?) version is probably a hybrid between what we just described and the past vine, and between using AI to generate a ton of videos in all sorts of popular subjects and then later to provide to users. This has the advantage of sounding practical remotely, at least.
Why is there a basket in the middle of the courthouse? Don't think anything you can see in the world of Ai-Vine makes sense, like this Veo 3 clip.
Are creators involved at all? So far, we've talked about systems where Musk's AI is basically responsible for delivering all the content, but it doesn't necessarily have to be in the direction of this kind of project going. “ai form” is probably roughly the same as OG vine, but as I've started watching YouTube, it explicitly accepts creators who are leaning heavily towards AI.
As for our slide scale possibilities, this may be perhaps the most practical yet, but it is a bit overwhelming. There are fewer “AI forms” and “like all other video platforms in 2025” it will also make you wonder what the point is even to do this.
Perhaps that's the most frustrating element of this discussion. We've split the hair exactly what AI-Fied Vine looks like, but we feel this drives more about the gloomy, broad appeal of AI content, not specifically about Vine.
Perhaps it was from the time when the vines were constantly husing to create their own names in the crazy space of that time. These attempts did not always work. As it is now, there was a lot of low-effort and frizzy content there. But others really discovered what was played, built a fan audience, and made us wander over and over again.
But all of these creators will go ahead and if Vine reappears today, the only way to avoid a vacuum of massive content would be to actually tap into AI tools to build a new video library.
Distinguished viewers will not be particularly appealing to such vines. But if Musk's disastrous impact on Twitter has taught us anything, then it is that even services that are deeply unattractive to Taste users don't need to worry when they have vast depths of the internet to operate.
There are definitely a lot of people out there. They're just going to spend their days watching six-second videos one after another. And I hope for them Not once Get what they want.
