Vine is (kind of) back from the dead

Hold on to your croissant. After a nearly nine-year hiatus, short-form video platform Vine is back. A new version of the app, called diVine, has resurrected a slew of old clips and creator profiles in an attempt to relive some of that mid-2010s magic, six seconds at a time.

DiVine intervention: It’s not a full resuscitation. There were terabytes of data withering in the Vine archives, but they weren’t easily accessible, so diVine founder Evan Henshaw-Plath reconstructed what he could. He told TechCrunch that diVine will have about 150,000–200,000 Vine videos from ~60,000 creators (for comparison, old Vine had a few million creators).

DiVine users will also be able to post new videos, and creators can remove any of their old videos that got reposted.

Back in the loop: Henshaw-Plath, an original Twitter employee, has financial backing from Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey’s nonprofit “and Other Stuff.” Dorsey, who shut down Vine in 2017, previously said that was his “biggest regret.” Current Twitter X owner Elon Musk announced in August that he also planned to revive Vine, but that hasn’t happened so far.

Slop-free zone: DiVine will screen for and block generative AI content, so the app can focus on human-powered connection. Cat soap opera lovers will have to get their fix elsewhere.