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stop you're getting cream cheese all
over the table
honey I'm a retired police officer not a
maid Kevin plus I'm fat and that's what
makes my character funny [Laughter]
[Music]
you're right Kevin I love you [Applause]
good evening everyone we interrupt this
episode oh come on not right now bring
you an important story this is a really
big news story that you won't want to
miss be sure to stay tuned really every
channel what is so important Twitter has
announced that their popular social
media app Vine will be closing its doors
in the next couple months at this moment
the specific details of this move are
unclear but one thing I know for certain
is that if you're a Viner and your only
source of online relevance and health
self-worth is a number of Vine followers
you have then I imagine this news is
simply devastating to my God I heard can
you believe this no that's crazy they're
shutting down Vine what oh no I wasn't
listening to that I'm on the news news
news boy do I love the new what I'm the
news anchor which is weird because I
didn't think I was am I why didn't I
know this no you're not
this is a sketch Drew you're just
playing all the characters uh characters
you recorded that yesterday and now
you're just playing it on the TV I'm not
so sure I'm following all right clearly
this is getting too meta did you just
write this part in because you didn't
know because I didn't know how to end
this sketch yeah I figured 9-1-1 hi I'd
like to order a sandwich also you wrote
a sketch that's supposed to take place
one year ago just pickles the phone you
gave yourself
was a Motorola Razor do you think that
people still used Razer phones a year
ago I don't remember when people stopped
can everybody please do me a favor and
refrain from commenting on my little
Band-Aid no I'm not going to tell you
how I hurt my finger and I'm definitely
not going to tell you how to use a
cheese grater because apparently I don't
know and I'm absolutely not going to
tell you why the only Band-Aids I own
are from a movie called The Secret Life
hello everybody and welcome back to the
dumpster behind at Chili's um today
we're going to be taking a little trip
down memory lane
um specifically my memory as I don't
have access to anybody else's uh and
although this video will be filled with
personal stories and experiences through
my own eyes I think there will be
something in this video for everybody
particularly if you used to be a Viner
or if you were ever just a big fan of
vines as many of you may know it's been
exactly one year since Vine announced
that they would be shutting down it's
actually been a little bit more than a
year depending on how long it takes me
close enough and although it doesn't
feel like it's been that long A lot has
changed in the past year now every once
in a while I will start watching uh one
of the vine compilations that they're
all over YouTube and I find myself
watching these sometimes and seeing
someone and being like what happened to
them do you ever watch an Old Vine and
I'm not just talking about like the
popular viners uh like Lele pons and
those sort of people who have moved on
to other things obviously but some of
the one hit wonder Vines like this guy
green you're my evil what happened to
him and with this being the anniversary
of the death of Vine I figured this
would be a perfect opportunity to do a
little bit of research and figure out
where some of these prominent figures
have disappeared to and because Vine was
such an enormously significant part of
my life I wanted to have this one
definitive video where I talk about
pretty much my entire experience with
Vine how it changed my life why I think
Vine was good and why I also think Vine
was bad because obviously it had its
flaws otherwise it would still exist
today but for now let's go ahead and
take a deep dive into the first ever
um there's supposed to be uh like a song [Music]
[Music]
where are they now [Music]
because some kind of in the mail today
these nuts Gotti
Gotti
I laugh every time uh the Deez Nuts guy
whose real name is Charles Nutz is one
of the most notorious figures to ever
come from Vine as you all know Charles
went on to host his very own prank show
on VH1 the Deez Nuts prank hour which
ran for 12 seasons and is still the
highest rated show in television history
who could forget that season six
crossover episode with Ashton Kutcher
where they both thought they were
pranking each other you were Punk
despite strong ratings throughout its
entire 600 episode run the Deez Nuts
prank hour was canceled back in August
when they simply ran out of people to
prank and he can't prank someone twice
Zack stop Zach stop you're gonna get in trouble
this Vine was called kicked too much and
without a doubt it's one of my favorite
Vines ever but it does leave you with a
lot of questions like why was he kicking
so much uh why did his friends keep
telling him not to well I guess it makes
sense why they told him not to because
he ended up getting arrested but it's a
it's a pretty confusing Vine and I
continued to be confused about this for
months until very recently I was just
fed up of that and I decided to do a
quick Google search and I found out very
quickly that he was simply arrested for
reaching the legal kick limit in one day
afterwards I became very angry at all
the people who didn't do as much
research as I did and continued to
question this fine the answers were
right in front of you you just had to
Google it and although it seems a little
harsh that he was sentenced to life in
prison without the possibility of parole
the law is the law and you have to
respect the law iridocyclitis
iridocyclitis
I unfortunately this kid did go on to
lose this spelling bee after a late
field goal in overtime but as all
stories must have a happy ending he is
story does not have a happy ending after
facing the worst public humiliation of
his life this poor guy had to move to a
different state where he was unable to
get an apartment or even a job because
he forgot his wallet who am I let's go
I'm Corbin blue Corbin blue one of the
most mysterious figures on Vine after an
anonymous Reddit user made a strong case
that this Corbin blue is not the same
Corbin Bleu from The High School Musical
franchise people began to question the
true identity of Corbin however there is
a rumor going around that I think sounds
pretty convincing I apologize in advance
for condoning a rumor that doesn't have
a hundred percent hard evidence to back
it up but I feel very strongly about
this one basically the rumor is that
Corbin Bleu is Spider-Man now you may be
thinking that's ridiculous Spider-Man
lives in New York while Corbin Bleu
lives on the internet but there's a
pretty convincing argument to be made
that these two are in fact the same
person for one let's take a look at
Corbin's post schedule now I'm going to
go ahead and scroll down to 2015 because
there's a pretty noticeable discrepancy
in here here we go Corbin posted three
times on October 16 2015. but then he
didn't post again until the 28th of
October you know nearly two weeks later
now ask yourself where was Corbin now it
stands to reason that if Spider-Man had
a Vine account he wouldn't be able to
post every day because he'd be busy
fighting the Green Goblin and whatever
other villains he has and this wasn't
just a one-time thing the behavior
continues November 17th he posts and
then not again until December 11th
that's nearly a month Spider-Man
presumably fights a lot of crime and
would be very busy and I imagine this is
exactly the kind of post schedule he
would be forced to maintain when you
look at all this evidence combined it
seems obvious that there's no other
answer possible
Corbin blew is Spider-Man yeah a lot of
people assumed that this was Cole Hirsch
playing a character just because they
have the same Snapchat account and they
look very similar but if you ask me that
isn't really enough evidence to say oh
they're the same person like I said
earlier this video is all about the
truth everything in this video is true I
did a lot of research to find out all
these things about all these people and
I think it would ruin my credibility as
a video maker if I condone such
ridiculous rumors without any real hard
evidence plus it just seems very obvious
that Corbin and Spider-Man ah we'll get
back to that segment in a moment but
first I want to talk a little bit about
why I think Vine was good and also why
Vine was bad because I think both are
true the most important thing I want to
make clear in this video is I am a
million percent thankful to vine for
what they allowed me to do and where
they allowed me to go I want to talk
honestly about what I think some of the
problems with Vine were and I don't
think it's like like I said I don't
think it's that crazy to say that vine
had its flaws because it doesn't exist
anymore but ultimately I want to make it
clear that I love Vine I appreciate the
hell out of Vine and all the employees
and the people I met and everyone that
allowed me to be where I am today Vine
was a perfect place to start out on the
internet to build a platform from
scratch if you wanted to be an online
content creator Vine was the place to
start it was easy to make Vines it was
easy for your Vines to be seen Vine was
all about ideas
um because with Vine the distance
between an idea and the execution of
that idea was very short you could have
the idea for a Vine and within a couple
hours it exists road work ahead uh yeah
I sure hope it does and then a few hours
past that it's got a million loops and a
bunch of comments and likes and all this
validation is given to you for the idea
you had a couple hours ago so Vine was
great in that way but really what made
Vine great was the people on Vine it was
such a fun group of creators to be a
part of because everyone was supportive
of each other it'd be so fun to see your
friend or just someone you follow and
really like you see a Vine they post
you're like oh that's a great idea
that's so funny that's fantastic they
posted a couple minutes ago and you know
that's gonna go viral and then you check
back a few hours later it's got the
little flame Emoji next to the view
count it's number one on the comedy page
with things like Vine and YouTube they
can only exist with the people using
them and they're only as good as the
content creators on the app and Vine for
the most part had a fantastic group of
creators and I don't think it was the
quality of vines that led to its demise
everything that led to its demise was
more numbers they weren't making money
that sort of thing um but I think there
was some really great content and really
great people on Vine now Shifting the
focus a little bit to what were some of
Vine's flaws and I think a lot of the
things that made Vine good where
unfortunately also the things that made
Vine doomed to fail in the same way that
vine was accessible to creators it was
also pretty limiting because it was six
seconds long I can't tell you how many
times I would sit there trying to edit a
Vine shorter and shorter and shorter and
I could get it to like eight seconds
nine seconds and it's just like I can't
I can't make this any shorter I can't
post this on Vine it was hard to fit a
good joke into six seconds and sometimes
so many Vines were perfect at that
length but as a Creator you start using
Vine and as your ideas start to get more
elaborate you need to go to other
platforms to express those ideas even
while Vine was still around through a
lot of 2016 I wasn't really using Vine
as much because I was trying to figure
out you know I was at a point where it's
like okay I've done Vine for a little
bit and I feel good about this I feel
good about what I've done but what's
next you know and I think a lot of
people have that same thing Vine was
this great place to be but there there
was always that idea of like well I'm
not going to be here forever so what's
next and that brings me to what I think
is pretty much my main point on why I
think Vine was always doomed to fail the
way I think of it is everybody has their
own career ladder in their head where
the top of the ladder represents total
creative fulfillment if you were as
successful as you could possibly imagine
what does that look like and the top of
the ladder is different for everybody
maybe the ultimate fulfillment for you
is you want to write a movie or you want
to act in a TV show you want to be like
Dwight from the office maybe that's your
ultimate career goal or maybe you want
to be just famous enough to get fourth
place on Dancing With the Stars it's
different for everybody so while every
Vine Creator's ladder was slightly
different I think what they all had in
common was that vine was not at the top
in fact I think Vine for most people was
the bottom step it was the first step
and there's nothing wrong with that I
don't mean to disparage Vine any way but
I think for most people no one had
success on Vine and was like I'm gonna
do this forever because it just didn't
seem to work out that way it didn't seem
viable it was great for starting out but
once you get to a point where it's like
okay where do I go with this it was
usually the next place to go is
somewhere else so going back to the
latter analogy if Vine is the first step
that means two things one it was
accessible enough to be reached from the
ground but the ultimate job of the first
step of the ladder is to propel you to
the next step of the ladder and so
that's what Vine was it was the 100
necessary First Step that would Propel
people further along I imagine this type
of thing made it very difficult to be an
employee at Vine or someone who had a a
large role at Vine because they would
probably see these very talented people
come in and use Vine to go do something
else like they came and they got what
they came for But ultimately they just
needed to leave and do something else
from the rest of my career no matter
what I do whether I completely fizzle
out and never do anything or whether I
go on to Be a Millionaire movie maker I
will owe my start to vine it doesn't
matter how talented or funny I think I
am I am recognized now as an online
Entertainer because of Vine failing to
Express gratitude for the thing that got
you where you are now shows a complete
and utter lack of self-awareness going
back to the latter analogy it's pretty
easy when you're on that second step to
look down at the ground and see how far
you've come but let's not forget that
when you are on the ground you couldn't
reach that second step without the first one
one
so these guys were both pretty popular
in Vine I haven't seen much of them in a
while though so I I'll have to look into
that on all levels except physical I am
a wolf shout out to the Twitter follower
who sent me this Paparazzi photo that
was taken a couple weeks ago of this guy
uh one of the first things you'll notice
is that this is a picture of a wolf and
that he is a wolf now on all levels
including physical take another lap
coach just give me a sec give me a sec
give me a sec to breathe this family is
such a perfect encapsulation of what
made Vine so special every once in a
while you'd find someone and just just
marvel at the fact that they exist that
there's someone out there like that
because the young girl j-ro is is so
interesting on her own the way she sings
When there's too much drama at school
and even just the way she's branded
herself jro but on top of that you add
in her uncle hey
that in her grandma or her aunt I'm not
actually sure man it looks so good
you've got that right honey and it's all
about the cook um
um
I was gonna Vine like this damn check
out those babies for days [Music]
[Music]
which makes sense you know it has a
setup and a punch line but then you
realize that the babes for days that
they're talking about two of them are
like 10 years old we're just gonna gloss
over that I got your drink this makes me
miss Vine because this reminds me of
like all the the weird people you
discover and it just they leave you with
so many questions who are these people
what is this family and why don't they
have their own reality show
um well I actually found out that they
do uncle's home will Premiere its first
season next month and say YouTube Red
exclusive hey mailman what do you got
Jonathan I don't love you anymore in my
opinion Danny was one of the best finders
finders
um he was very popular because he was
able to make vines that were relatable
enough for everybody to understand but
there was so much better than all of the
other relatable Vines and viners that
existed because he's a legitimately
hilarious person if you liked him on
Vine he's still making YouTube videos
now and if you're not already subscribed
you should go check them out
um the only thing with Danny and he
might get mad that I even brought this
up but I feel like I should say
something about this because if you
click on any of his videos all the
comments are about this but a few months
ago Danny was diagnosed with um
permanently upside down disease for
those of you who don't know it's
basically a disease where an otherwise
healthy person's physical body is upside down
down
permanently you know Danny's a really
funny guy but it admittedly can be kind
of tough to watch his videos because
it's so disorienting to see someone
who's just upside down the whole time
like I said all his comments are about
that people seem to be frustrated and
confused but props to Danny for not just
editing the video so it looks like he's
right side up because if he were to do
that then he would no longer be raising
awareness for a very real condition that
affects millions of persons and that's
something you simply can't put a price on
on
um if you ask me though I think he needs
to [ __ ] fix that [ __ ] in Premiere
without a doubt uh the best memory I
have from Vine and one of the best
memories I have from my whole life so
far is getting to work on Camp unplug
Camp unplug more like Camp fun plugs or
like Camp butt plug
it's on my jacket for those of you who
don't know what camp unplug is uh that's
probably most of you uh let me explain
it so in March of 2016 I got a message
on Twitter from this guy Jeremy who
works at Vine and at first like I
couldn't believe it was real he asked if
I wanted to be a part of this series
that they had written and we're going to
film over the summer and they were going
to fly us out to this camp in Wisconsin
and then they were going to take us to
VidCon as like featured creators they
were gonna do all these things and pay
for all this stuff for us almost
everybody on the list I had heard of and
was a fan of their Vines So Not only was
I going to be a part of this awesome
thing but I'd get to meet all these
people up until this point I had met
except for maybe a couple other viners
who happen to live in Orlando I hadn't
really met any creators from Vine and so
it was so exciting to meet these people
who I had watched for all this time and
actually meet them in real life it also
made me a little nervous because I
didn't know if uh I'm I think I'm
funnier in real life than I was on Vine
but there's there was all also part of
me was like no I hope they like me which
is pretty much just my constant mental
state before I do anything what was so
cool about it was that there they gave
us a script
um Chris melberger Aaron tuning and
Jeremy wrote a great script but
everything within the whole project was
also 100 collaborative so the first
night we got there we're sitting down at
the table reading the whole script and
we're all doing our lines and anytime
someone had an idea like oh maybe my
character should say this instead it was
like there wasn't there was never any
sense of like uh maybe you should just
do what's in the script you know it was
like everyone had their own ideas and um
everyone's ideas were listened to
another thing that specifically for me
that was so cool that I got to be
invited to this was like at the time
when they first asked me I think I only
had like a hundred thousand followers
which is it's good but there were
probably thousands of people who had
more followers than me certainly just a
among the group of people there most of
the people there had over a million they
were some of the biggest viners I know
Cody had about 2 million Danny had over
1 million maybe he had 2 million at the
time Lauren Geraldo had like three
million Victor pope all these people all
these people had had so many more
followers than I did if it wasn't for
this I don't think I would have ever had
any vines with any of these people just
because I don't live in LA and I didn't
then and I still don't and nobody lives
in Florida except for like Tiger Woods but
but
um I don't know if that would be a good
PR move if I had started collaborating
with Tiger Woods in conjunction with the
release of Camp unplug was also Vine's
release of this feature where you could
attach longer videos to your Vines and
that was really the only way this story
could be told on the vine platform and
couldn't just be a bunch of little six
second scenes so the way Camp unplug was
told was you'd have these like two to
five minute long scenes then as these
fictional campers have some down time
they get into their own little Antics
sorry I won't you go okay you want to go
it was so cool to [ __ ] it was so cool
to be a part of that you're probably
waiting for me to like get to the point
here right now it's just me gushing
about these memories I have and the
people I got to meet but that's really
that's all it is I just I look back and
I I gush it the fact that I got to do
this like I alluded to they also invited
us to VidCon now if you've never been to
VidCon and I'd like to go back but this
was my one and only time going to VidCon
so far vidcon's crazy VidCon is it's
it's a whole different world because
you've got this entire subsection of
humanity all compact into one place I
don't know if I'll ever feel like as
much of a celebrity as I did that
weekend the fact that I was technically
a featured Creator they had their old
Booth set up it was one of the the ones
near the front they had these big LED
screens and my big dumb face would cycle
through every once in a while so that
was crazy oh they also took us to
Disneyland which was awesome they rented
out this whole section of a Denny's
nearby so every night but between like 9
pm and 3 A.M or something you know you'd
have all these drunk creators going
there all the food was free we lit you
could order whatever you wanted off the
menu and it was so free to the point
where you would see like people would
come in drunk and order something and
then not wait for it and you just see
like a big stack of nachos just
untouched we Vine celebrities really
abused the hell out of that whole experience
experience
um but definitely yeah definitely the
best one of the best experiences of my
life and something that I felt like I
had to talk about you know if I'm gonna
make this whole video [ __ ] I'm so glad I
get to take this off now it is so hot
it's like 80 degrees in my apartment
because I have to turn the AC off while
I film
um because it's very loud and Jesus Christ
Christ
uh this I feel good this feels good now so
so
yeah can I just get like a a raw potato
and a spoon and then just an egg to
drink thank you sweetheart oh hey we're
back two Bros chilling in the hot tub
five feet apart because they're not gay
now this was a pretty big headline at
the time so I'm sure you guys already
heard about this
um but basically as the night went on
the two Bros so as to not be confused
for being in a homosexual relationship
uh slowly drifted further and further
apart from each other until they both
ended up in the middle of the ocean
where they were tragically eaten by two
different Dolphins sources later
revealed that those Dolphins were in
fact married and that is ironically a
Legend has it that this boy is still
running no one knows where he is or how
far he's run or if he'll ever come back
his friends have moved on and so is his
family they've replaced his room with a
room that's just filled with water all
the time no one goes in and no one comes
out Tyrone you notice your baby father
that baby don't look like me
ah Cole labrant the whitest and boisiest
member of dim white boys if not from
Vine you may know Cole from his YouTube
channel where he and his wife like to
film her three-year-old daughter getting
hurt you may also know him from that
time he tweeted about losing his
virginity on his wedding night and then
blocked me when I made a really good
joke about it Cole I wasn't making fun
of you for waiting to lose your
virginity I think that's awesome if
that's your belief that you want to wait
till you're married to have sex and
you'd actually do that's great man
that's awesome that's I'm proud of you
for that I was making fun of the fact
that uh presumably moments after you've
finished having sex for the very first
time you pulled out your phone and said
just had sex no I'm not gonna talk about
it I could talk about this for hours you
guys would not believe the restraint it
took to not make a video about this a
couple months ago I have a lot to say
but I didn't want to stir the pot
anymore than I already did because he's
a nice guy he he's a nice guy he's just
really really bad at the internet good
credit bad credit no credit no problem
are you dead [ __ ]
clearly one of the funniest people I've
ever met he is such a natural comedian
and he was so good at Vine right now
he's in La doing stand-up he's also done
a couple things with Super Deluxe that
are just such high quality I'm going to
link those in the description because I
think they're so funny and well made and
I think you should check them out but
that being said
a lot of people are asking about this
ghost we all want to know did he ever
get his Subaru unfortunately he was
riding his bike on his way to the Subaru
dealer to potentially get his new car
but on the way he was captured by the
ragtag group of paranormal experts on
the show Ghost Adventures the good news
is he was the first real ghost that was
ever captured by one of those entirely
fake reality ghost television shows the
bad news is of course he is trapped in
Eternal captivity um but it's probably
for the best because his credit score
foreign
hi welcome to Chili's Adam and Patrick
Perkins who you might know as [ __ ] were
twins who blew up on Vine in the summer
of 2015 and they seemed poised to become
the next big Vine stars that is until a
couple months went by and they sort of
just stopped posting perhaps they
started to feel the pressure of having a
lot of people paying attention to them
or maybe they just wanted to have normal
lives they were about to start college
and maybe they just wanted to focus on
that which is fine not everybody has to
be famous they still have an online
presence mostly on Instagram a little
bit on Twitter but despite limited
information I was able to dig up that
the Perkins twins are now the Perkins
triplets that's right through the
passage of time in the Miracle of Life a
new Perkins boy has spawned and dare I
say he might even be the cutest and now
we take a moment to reflect on some of
the people we've lost would you not eat
oh uh they're not dead I just don't know
kids I'm gonna tell you an incredible
story the story of How I Met Your Mother
okay Dad I started vine pretty late in
the game I didn't start until about
February 2015 and so to set the scene a
little bit at the time I had just
dropped out of college for like the
third time and I was working at Popeyes
I knew I wanted to be a comedian for a
living like that's I knew I wanted to
pursue that but I didn't know how I was
doing improv at the time but I wasn't
that good at improv but I saw what uh
some other people were doing on Vine and
how Vine itself had sort of evolved in
the year and a half or so that it had
been around and that piqued my interest
and so I looked at that and I was like
you know what if they can do it I can do
it I'm gonna be good at buying and then
so I started vine and I wasn't good at
Vine I was pretty bad at it when it
started and I think I deleted like 90 of
the things I posted but right
I guess mathematically that does mean
that every 10th thing I posted was not
that bad so you know after a couple
months I eventually got a little bit
better I accumulated some good Vines so
after slowly crawling my way up from 50
followers to like
250 followers uh finally in April a
couple of my Vines got pretty big I got
a Joe Jonas revine that's just sort of a
tale as old as time you know how many
comedians don't have Joe Jonas to think
for their initial start so then after
that I went from like 300 followers to
30 000 or so followers in like a couple
weeks which was a type of success I had
never experienced on the internet before
it was amazing and then I got reached
out to from someone at Tosh.0 asking if
they could use my Vine on the show and I
damn it feels good to be so in such a
short amount of time I went from an
absolute nobody who worked at Popeyes
to a person who had a very small amount
of internet success who still worked at
Popeyes so not much of a change I guess
but it was you know it was a lot of cool
things all at once however the coolest
thing that happened and I'm only
explaining all this to sort of give a
little bit of a backstory the most
important thing that happened to me
during this period of other important
things happened right before a girl
commented on one of my Vines uh
specifically this Vine that moment you
have two phones so you don't know which
I'm using the other one to record and
she said OMG you are so cute and your
Vines are like pure liquid gold now a
normal person in this situation would
probably just ignore this comment or at
the very least smile and move on with
their lives but me a not normal person
decided to do the opposite and pursue it
heavily you have to understand at the
time I was very lonely and uh like a
good detective I was not about to turn
down such a promising lead I found her
Instagram page from her Vine bio and I
looked at a couple pictures was like uh
holy [ __ ] she's perfect and then so I
messaged her I got her phone number we
started texting and got along really
well you know everything was great
except oh [ __ ]
she lives in Arizona
and I lived in Orlando
so that was kind of a bummer but we got
along really well we kind of liked each
other right away and so it was like you
know didn't no pressure we don't have to
commit to anything let's just keep
talking and so we talked every day like
I said we texted every day for like a week
week
and then after a week she wanted to
FaceTime and I was very nervous to
FaceTime because I I'm nervous to do
anything but I agreed and I called her
so we facetimed for
six hours seven hours maybe uh the whole
night so not only did we talk from the
moment I got home from work until the
moment I had to go to bed so I could
wake up for work the next day but during
this seven hour face time she bought a
plane ticket to come see me so I think
less than a week into talking to someone
who I've never met we agreed to come see
each other and uh not murder each other
I remember like the couple months before
like we bought the ticket and then but
we didn't plan to see each other till
like June so it was a couple months and
uh her family kept making fun of her and
her friends like oh you're definitely
gonna get catfished the thing that I
mean we felt pretty good because we did
FaceTime and we could see that we were
real people like I still could have
murdered her if I wanted to but I didn't
I didn't want to
um because things went pretty well and
luckily she didn't murder me either I
think the best thing I had going for me
at the time even though I worked full
time at a fast food restaurant was that
I lived in Orlando which is kind of a
funny thing to say because generally
nothing good comes from being a
Floridian but I will say Orlando is a
very good place to live if you want to
host someone from out of town for a few
days because uh you've got Disney
you've got Universal which is way better
than Disney you've got Sea World which
just kidding don't go to Sea World and
then you've got the beach in like every
direction so we did all of that except
for Sea World obviously because [ __ ] Sea
World but um I remember it being a
little awkward at first it was
definitely the first time either of us
had done something like this where we
talked to someone for like a few months
before meeting them you know and like
you can text someone all day every day
and talk on the phone every once in a
while but it's still going to be a
little bit different when you finally
meet in person I think we had both kind
of set up expectations and it was a
little bit weird like the first day but
then the next four days or three days or
whatever we're like the best days ever
and every day was better than the one
before and we just liked each other so
much by the end of it that it was like
all right well we can't not do this you
know it's gonna be tough to do long
distance but we can't just stop it was
something that wouldn't have worked if
didn't like each other as much as we did
because long distance relationships do
suck and there were plenty of difficult
times as you can see in these pictures I
was not always happy it worked out
because we were both like 21 or 22 and
we both still had to like kind of get
our own lives lives in order a
long-distance relationship can be good
in in that way you know because it's
like you have a couple months at least
for us we had a couple months to focus
on ourselves and I got a better job
eventually and I was getting better at
Vine because I could focus on that and
then every like two or three months you
have a four day vacation together so it
actually worked out all right you know
and we did that for like a year and a
half and uh I have a lot of great
memories from that everything was great
until the accident just kidding this
story has a happy ending now I think the
the most romantic ending possible for
the story would be how I I just couldn't
take it anymore I couldn't do long
distance I had to be with the woman of
my dreams so I drove across the country
and I just showed up at her doorstep one
day and I popped out a ring and I said
will you marry me and she CR was crying
and she said yes I will do that and then
we would be married and then immediately
I'd get her pregnant and we would raise
the kid into like the next Superman or
something and then he would be I don't
know what I'm saying and then we would
uh drive my 2012 Honda Civic into the
sunset and we would live happily ever after
after
um that's sort of what happened but it
was more like hey uh we don't want to do
long distance anymore but we still like
each other so let's move to the same
place and if uh if you're gonna move to
me then I gotta give you this ring so I
can show you that I'm committed to and
so that's what we did she picked out the
ring I paid for it quick side note
fellas if you can get your girl to pick
out your ring for you do it
it's a huge relief it's a huge decision
you now don't have to make you only have
to spend like you know two-thirds of
your life savings on it but she moved to
Orlando she got the first two jobs she
applied for and she's still working both
of those and she loves it here I hope I
love it here I love to be with her you
know I get to live with my best friend I
get to sleep in the same bed as her
every night which actually we both agree
isn't that good we kind of wish we're
kind of thinking of getting bunk beds
you know so we can have our own space
but it's like it's just like every time
I think about it and we talk about this
we love to tell this story I met my wife
my future wife because a girl commented
on a video I made the stupidest video
ever that I made she was like oh you're
cute and I'm like me the horny desperate
21 year old was like you're cute too
let's kiss let's let's talk and stuff
and then we did and then now we're in
the same house and we're married in
principle why is freaking crazy and Vine
is the best really my main reason for
telling the story is to show all of the
people out there who watch my videos and
I'm so appreciative of you guys but I
know there's some of you a lot of you
who watch my videos and you don't give a
[ __ ] about Vine you didn't follow me on
Vine my YouTube account is so different
than what I made on Vine it's like I
understand that people watch my videos
and they don't always like my Vines now
I hope by telling you by showing you the
things I got to do because of Vine the
the fact that it is the reason I met my
wife I hope you guys understand now
why Vine is so important to me why Vine
is the was the most amazing experience
for me and why I will always cherish
this beloved app some takeaways from the
story uh do I think the first time a
cute girl comments something nice on a
thing you make
not every time maybe a small percentage
of the time you you should do that but
it works for me I hope that this story
showed you guys that there is hope out
there if you just shoot your shot
you know if you think someone is acute
on the internet tell them they're cute
maybe you'll be dating them in the next
two months or maybe if you tell someone
they're cute too much then they'll put
out a restraining order for you and then
that's cool too you know because it's
like like what better way to show that
you notice someone than by uh getting a
lawyer involved so I think it's a
win-win always shoot your shot always
respect Vine because I love it and
always uh always don't do long distance
always never do long distance because
long distance is trash I've already
talked to you for about eight hours now
about Vine so I think it's time we start
wrapping this up
well that's it I guess video's over at
this point I've spent so long making
this video that I don't even know if
it's good anymore uh we'll see as you
can tell it's taking quite the physical
toll on me my hair is a lot longer I've
grown out a full beard or at least my
version of that the last thing I want to
address and I'll try to make this quick
is the recent news that I guess one of
the founders of Vine is working on his
own quote follow-up app to vine he
wasn't super specific on any details
other than just to like keep an eye out
a lot of people were pretty excited
about this a lot of people were a little
bit more skeptical about this
um for me
I don't know I I mean I just made a 12
hour video about how I loved Vine but
honestly I don't know if I wanted to
come back at least not in whatever form
this entails a follow-up app sounds like
something that's similar to vine but
isn't Vine so let's say that's what it
is it's a similar app Divine but it's
not called Vine it's called like Loops
um loops with with a z of course and to
make it stand out we're going to add in
more features that weren't originally on
Vine uh for example now you're not
limited to six seconds you can do a full
15 second video and it still Loops again
loops with a z also you'll be able to
make a daily story because uh every
social media app seems to have to have
stories in it uh in addition you can
also post pictures so if you just want
to give like a little quick update to
your fans on oh [ __ ] I think we just
made Instagram okay so Vine comes back
and it's just called Vine or God forbid
Vine two Vine two comes out and it's
exactly the same as Vine was well part
of the reason Vine failed initially was
that they were always losing money and
so you're going to need to add some sort
of monetization system in place
otherwise Vine 2 is going to end up with
the same fate as fine one so now you
have an app that's the same as Vine was
except with let's assume uh ads in
between vines or like in the corner of
the screen or whatever so it's a lesser
product because it's now been diluted by
ads it also no longer has the novelty
value that vine had when it first came
out because that was like five years ago
at this point and on top of this it
doesn't offer anything that isn't
already available on another platform
not to be cynical but I am being cynical
I don't think it would work out I think
people would be really excited about it
for a month and then they're gonna stop
using it like they did before the
creators are going to slowly leave
because there's more profitable uses of
their time elsewhere and as they leave
the content on the app will dwindle and
so will the users who use it and it will
have the same exact end as the original
vine did except I don't picture it
lasting three years this time I picture
it lasting like three months call me
cynical but that's just how I see it we
all have wonderful Vine memories but
sometimes it's okay for something to
just be a memory good things can still
come to an end I have great memories
from childhood that doesn't mean I want
to be eight again I love being an adult
I can do whatever I want I look back on
Vine with all the love in the world but
that doesn't mean it has to exist again
for me to cherish it you can cherish
memories let it rest move on it's in the
past even if it comes back it'll never
be the same as it was and that's all
right maybe I'm wrong and I would love
to be proven wrong
um something I have had to come to terms
with selfishly is that I think
I think I'm glad that vine ended just
because I know the type of person I am I
embrace complacency like nobody's
business when things are going well for me
me
um I don't always have the same
motivation to work as hard as I should
because I'm content and that's something
I'm trying to improve about myself
that's something I've gotten a little
better at over time but I know that a
year ago Vine dying was the Catalyst for
me to figure out what I was going to do
next if I never went away
I don't know if I ever would have
started YouTube I always wanted to but I
never felt like I needed to because I
was a famous Viner I had 400 000
followers on Vine I didn't want to start
from scratch on YouTube and have to do
like a hundred times more work and learn
how to use a real editing program that
wasn't just iMovie on my phone my
thought process at the time was why
would I do all of that extra work when I
already had Vine
and then one day Vine died and
everything I had spent two years
building up was pulled out from under me
I was upset I was angry I regretted the
fact that I hadn't tried to uh spread my
followers around to other places on the
internet I like hundreds of other viners
put all of my eggs in the vine basket
and then the basket broke it exploded
destroying all of my eggs in the process
and now I'm infertile but when vine went
away my safety net went away with it and
so I had to deal with being irrelevant
again for several months and I had to
try new things I had to try different
types of content and a lot of it didn't
work some of it did eventually I figured
out what people liked and what I liked
doing I worked hard I got super lucky
emphasis on that and now I'm about to
quit my job to do YouTube full-time and
that's something that even at the height
of my Vine success I never even fathomed
the possibility of quitting my full-time
job to just do Vine full-time that was
never a possibility for me and so if I'm
being a hundred percent honest
um which like I said this video is all
about the truth for selfish reasons
I think I'm glad that fine died feels
good to get that off my chest I loved
Vine and now I love YouTube I'm ecstatic
to be able to do what I'm doing now and
I'm so excited to get to continue to do
it and see where my channel goes and
where it takes me and if I ever get to
be on the H3 podcast because that's all
I really want the good news is I've
learned from my mistakes
um Vine taught me to never put all of my
eggs in one basket because you never
know what's going to happen and that's a
mistake I don't think I'm going to make
again except obviously with YouTube
because I don't think YouTube's going
anywhere YouTube's infallible they've
gotten a lot of good PR lately and I
just feel comfortable alright guys
that's it I want to thank all my
beautiful little stinkers out there for
watching this entire video if you didn't
watch the whole video then it doesn't
really matter because you didn't see
this part anyway now that I'm finally
done with this massive project I have a
lot of ideas that have uh that I haven't
had any time to focus on and so lots and
lots of more content coming lots of new
content is what I meant to say
um and I could have just said I hadn't
already said the thing that I was going
to mess up I also have an exciting merch
announcement coming pretty soon and I
don't think that I'm being too
hyperbolic when I say this is going to
be the greatest merch of all time
seriously guys I'm changing the game so
I hope you're ready for that all right
well I don't really know what else to
say now
um I think it would be funny if after uh
the world's longest video I end it by
just cutting myself off in the middle of
a sentiment foreign
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