{"id":4469,"date":"2013-06-21T01:11:51","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T06:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/isplotchy.com\/blog\/?p=4469"},"modified":"2013-06-21T01:18:50","modified_gmt":"2013-06-21T06:18:50","slug":"the-rather-bizarre-crisis-of-vine-celebrity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/isplotchy.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/the-rather-bizarre-crisis-of-vine-celebrity\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rather Bizarre Crisis of Vine Celebrity"},"content":{"rendered":"

I follow 2 out of the 3 people on Vine that I discuss in this post. \u00a0The third person is fine, too! \u00a0I just don’t follow him. \u00a0Sorry!<\/p>\n

I don’t claim to have insight into their personalities, beliefs, dispositions, emotions, or anything.\u00a0But I think something odd has happened. \u00a0Very odd.<\/p>\n

First, a little background.<\/p>\n

Vine is a Twitter-owned app where people can post 6 second videos from their phones.<\/p>\n

Instagram is a phone app which was bought by Facebook in April, 2012, and until yesterday, was strictly used for making\/manipulating\/sharing photos. \u00a0Now, Instagram hosts videos as well. \u00a0You can record up to 15 seconds of video, as well as apply one of a series of preset filters.<\/p>\n

Vine has around 13 million users, while Instagram has around 130 million users.<\/p>\n

There are lots of people who have made Vine videos (myself included), but some people have risen to the top and gotten a certain degree of popularity\/celebrity from their posts. \u00a0Actors James Urbaniak (Henry Fool, Venture Bros.), Will Sasso (Mad TV), and Adam Goldberg (The Hebrew Hammer, Dazed & Confused) are three such people.<\/p>\n

What I find interesting is how the announcement of Instagram’s foray into short videos might have an effect on them. \u00a0I’m not going to predict the future and say Instagram will supplant Vine, but I think it’s certainly going to draw some people away from the platform. \u00a0Two of my Twitter friends joined Instagram today, with one admitting that it was due to the introduction of Instagram video (Hi, Rob<\/a>!).<\/p>\n

James, Adam, and Will have accounts on Vine and Instagram. \u00a0However, their Vine accounts are screamingly more popular than their Instagram accounts.<\/p>\n

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JAMES URBANIAK<\/h2>\n
\"James
James Urbaniak on Vine – 22,225 Followers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"James
James Urbaniak on Instagram – 403 Followers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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WILL SASSO<\/h2>\n
\"Will
Will Sasso on Vine – 854,800 Followers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Will
Will Sasso on Instagram – 31,000 Followers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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ADAM GOLDBERG<\/h2>\n
\"Adam
Adam Goldberg on Vine – 123,100 Followers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Adam
Adam Goldberg on Instagram – 2,352 Followers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Okay, let’s break this down.<\/p>\n

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Urbaniak Vine (22,225) \/ Urbaniak Instagram (403) = 55.15, which means Urbaniak is 55 times more popular on Vine than he is on Instagram.<\/p>\n

Sasso Vine (854,800) \/ Sasso Instagram (31,000) = 27.57<\/p>\n

Goldberg Vine (123,100) \/ Goldberg Instagram (2,352) = 52.34<\/p>\n

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Again, I have no idea in hell what is going through their minds at this point. Did these guys have any clue that they would have found some degree of notoriety on Vine in the first place?\u00a0Do they see a cool thing vaporizing with the possible dwindling popularity of Vine? \u00a0Do they feel threatened? \u00a0I HAVE NO IDEA. \u00a0But it’s an interesting, weird thing to think about.<\/p>\n

All three of them *have* addressed the advent of video on Instagram. \u00a0Here’s their take on it.<\/p>\n

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On Vine, James Urbaniak flips the bird to Instagram. \u00a0As of this post’s writing he has yet to post a video to Instagram (his last post there was from last week, and he has only posted 15 photos in total).<\/p>\n

NOTE: Vine videos are muted by default. \u00a0If you want to hear a video, hover over it, then click the speaker with the red X to unmute.<\/em><\/p>\n