It’s 2013, your friend just showed you a hilarious six second video from this new app called VIne. You decide to hop on the band wagon and create your own vine account. From there you lose yourself in a whirlwind of videos of cats and relatable content. News spreads a people start to become famous from this small app. Now it 2016, and you haven’t thought twice about vine until you hear that it’s shutting down for forever.

Recently, Twitter, another social media website, shut down Vine. Twitter had already owned vine from October 2012, and now decided that it was time for Vine to die.

“I was never really interested in Vine, and since not a lot of people use it any more they [the company owners] shouldn’t waste their money”, junior Caitlyn Ackelson said.

Starting in 2012, Vine became a popular app to share videos, it quickly became the top selling app in the iTunes app store. This rise to fame wa  within the six months of joining the company. Vine was competing against other social media companies such as Instagram and Youtube. Millions of users were on and uploaded to Vine on a daily.

Vine soon became career choice, uploaders used this device to make money and some even used Vine as their only source of income. Not only did they use Vine as a job, many became famous. Some viners starred in movies and became famous musicians, all starting from VIne.

Shawn Mendes is an example of a very successful musician who started on Vine.

Mendes used to post videos to vine of him singing, soon he became popular. Due to his fame on vine he was noticed by artist managers and was signed to a music company. Now you can hear him on the radio singing his hit song “Stitches”.

Slowly Vine became less and less popular, many famous Viners moved on to bigger and better careers, abandoning Vine. With that, many users stopped getting on the app as well, either forgetting about it or quitting it for more popular social media apps, such as Snapchat and Instagram.

Vine has become a thing of the past as the years have gone by. Not many people care much that Vine is shutting down, they just see it as another form of social media that lost it’s fame. However, hundreds of people are getting laid off and Viners who used this as their full time job now have no source of income.

“It makes me sad, because the people that have fun making awesome and fun vines won’t be able to do what they love,” senior Angel Pineda said.