Where are the stars of Vine now? From Shawn Mendes and Lele Pons, to rocker Tommy Lee’s wife Brittany Furlan, these video creators won over the internet with their 6-second clips and memes
In the wake of the app’s 2017 demise, these 6 social media stars parlayed their massive online fame into successful careers in music, acting and more
The platform let users upload ultra-short, six-second videos that then played on a loop, and forced a new kind of creativity that even the app’s owners hadn’t seen coming. In the process, it forged the careers of some of today’s biggest online stars. So why did Vine disappear?
Despite generating more beloved memes and cultural moments than most apps with twice as many users, Vine failed to keep pace as competitors like Instagram and Snapchat added more and more features – “something that ultimately drove its biggest stars away”, according to The Verge.
So where are those stars now? Let’s take a look …
1. Lele Pons
Like many Viners, Pons rose to fame by not taking herself too seriously – or at least not appearing to. “Kids these days get famous overnight, I remember when I started, it wasn’t like that at all, I had to post something every day to keep the engagement,” she told TMRW magazine.