The #Xodus continues with as many as a million users flocking to delete their X accounts and resettle on the video-sharing website known only as Vine.
The move comes in the wake of the election with many users calling Elon Musk’s social media platform “toxic” and “unusable” and “not a suitable neighborhood to start thinking about raising a family inside of”.
But it was only after deleting all tweets, posts, reels, and likes from the X that users found the Vine website to be completely inactive and that it was impossible to set up an account.
“I’m heartbroken,” claimed one former ‘X’er, Gabs McCool. “At first I thought Vine-lly! And then I thought Vine not? But in the end, I’d just wasted my Vine.”
As it turns out, Vine is in fact a defunct social network from the 2010s that I guess we’d all forgotten about. Vine users were able to make TikToks, Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts all before it was cool. Retreating X users can therefore not make new accounts as the platform no longer exists.
Users are now faced with the unfortunate reality that they will have to just leave the house and argue with people in real life instead.
Other people have been more tenacious, however, claiming to have successfully made Vine accounts on their now deleted X profiles and encouraging users to come on in and join them, the water’s lovely. Some have even gone so far as to post pictures of them with their Vine accounts which on close inspection is clearly just a drawing of the Vine homepage stapled to the monitor.
The lack of functionality has done little to hold back the influx of users. Many prominent celebrities have migrated to Vine including: Weird Al Yankovic, The Guardian Newspaper Publication, Bettie White, Sabrina E. Carpenter (no relation), @satlynutz42069_, Ed Mulsindale of the Mulsindale Trio, Kermit the Frog, Susan B. Anthony (is she still alive?), the entire cast of the hit Broadway musical Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton himself, Elon Musk, Hawk Tuah (real name pending), Frobisher Dobisher, Chad Laketol, that one guy who won’t say ‘bless you’ when you sneeze for ‘religious reasons’, Colson Whitehead, Fergie, Will.i.am, the other two, Kim Kardashian of the Kardashians, the ‘look at all those chickens’ kid, Vinny Vinet (aka Mr. Vine Guy) and finally, yo mama (heheheh).
Honestly, I don’t know half these names either, I guess we’re both out of touch.
