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A Moment of Silence for the Black and Brown Talent That Grew on Vine

101 points| t23 | 9 years ago |npr.org

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[+] qwertyuiop924|9 years ago|reply
My problem with Vine is that it was really hard to find good content. There were so many people just making clips of themselves doing stupid crap. Honestly, the only good stuff I found on Vine while it was up was Thomas Sanders' content.
[+] pavel_lishin|9 years ago|reply
Isn't that a problem with Twitter, Instagram, etc, as well?
[+] jpindar|9 years ago|reply
When I've seen good stuff on Vine it's always been because someone linked it on twitter or some forum.
[+] WhitneyLand|9 years ago|reply
So, these people couldn't have the same success on youtube?
[+] dingo_bat|9 years ago|reply
No looping means 6 second content will not have any impact on the viewer. Maybe producing a 5 minute video and a 6 second video needs different skills.
[+] WhitneyLand|9 years ago|reply
Don't get the downvote. Seems like it would be constructive to discuss why they didn't succeed on youtube, are there workarounds to whatever to platform difference are, etc.
[+] 58|9 years ago|reply
Youtube can be a nasty place. Take a look at the comment section of pretty much any video with a black person in it.
[+] Volt|9 years ago|reply
Could the most successful people on Twitter have the same success on Medium?
[+] Animats|9 years ago|reply
Does anyone want to take over Vine?
[+] wodenokoto|9 years ago|reply
Pornhub, apparently.
[+] Dylan16807|9 years ago|reply
So in "black and brown", what ethnicities qualify as brown? Does it include some, all, or none of the black category?
[+] ap3|9 years ago|reply
Hispanics, it says so in the article.

>According to a Pew Research Center survey last year, almost a quarter of teens used Vine; and of those surveyed, 31 percent identified as black (non-Hispanic) and 24 percent as Hispanic.

[+] chris_wot|9 years ago|reply
Why would they do this? Seems rather short sighted.
[+] makomk|9 years ago|reply
Was probably a lot of maintenance effort for something that didn't catch on widely and duplicated Twitter's own video upload feature, except with more limitations (no videos longer than six seconds, in app recording only). Also, curiously enough it was labelled racist because of exactly the same aspects now being portrayed as positive: http://www.digitalamerica.org/vine-redefining-racial-stereot...
[+] swiftisthebest|9 years ago|reply
Most racist post I've ever seen on Hackernews. The color of these people's skin has no bearing on their success.
[+] lips|9 years ago|reply
This is on Codeswitch - their blog by PoC for PoC issues.

It's about the fact that the platform was disproportionately populated and loved by young creative Black and Latinx people.

Why do I post.

[+] generic_user|9 years ago|reply
NPR, and all the old media are now competing with BuzzFeed etc for clicks. These sites do not hire trained journalist or even writers. What you get even from NPR etc is republish of blog posts someone wrote while eating breakfast with little or no editorial oversight. Its mostly clickbait trash.

And for those who downvoted this there is a very simple test you can do to reveal racism that you may have grown desensitized to. Simply replace the race with another/white and read it back.

"A Moment of Silence for the White and Yellow Talent That Grew on Vine."

nothing racist there at all...