“I’ll just check Vine real quick to see if there’s anything new…” This is the lie students tell themselves as they get on the new popular app called Vine. What starts as a quick check turns into hours of watching the pointless six second-long videos. Vine’s popularity rose quickly towards the end of the school year last year and has many kids addicted to it.

 
Vine started out as random videos that seemed pointless, but it has evolved into something like Youtube, where comedic relatable videos are posted on a regular basis, only these have to be made within six seconds. The time limit in Vines seems impossible; six seconds is an extremely short amount of time to do anything let alone a funny and relatable video. However, many people have managed to do just that. There are several trends that seem to be going through Vine right now: Just Girly Things, Royals by Lorde remakes, Don’t Drop That Thun Thun Thun dances, Wrecking Ball by Miley Cyrus remakes, people trying to get discovered for musical talents, and “Beat Drops.”

 
Vine has become so popular due to the many “Vine-famous” people who post comedic Vines on a regular basis. These people have become a sort-of celebrity seemingly overnight as more and more people begin to get involved on Vine. Recently, some of our own students had their own run-in with Vine-fame, as a certain Vine-famous person gave a “shoutout” to Chapin High School on Twitter. This Viner from North Carolina who has almost 9,000 followers recently mentioned making a visit to Chapin. Approximately 100 Chapin students followed him on Twitter after he began “favoriting” and even responding to many of Chapin’s tweets to and about him.

 
Vine has become a large part of the student’s lives, coming close to how popular Twitter is. Vine’s addicting videos have students watching, re-watching and spreading these videos throughout the Chapin community and the rest of the country. Vine is a welcomed distraction from the pressures of school and social lives, as students find others in the country who share the same frustrations in their own lives.