RIP Vine: your six seconds in the spotlight changed the internet generation

We are gathered here today to pay tribute to the life and times of Vine, following its untimely demise during Twitter’s existential crisis.
Vine was gifted to this world just a short three years ago, and brought with it an astounding array of GIF-come-videos which forever changed the way mobile-natives engage with the internet. No longer did the mass market fancy chunky, immaculately produced 2-minute videos sapping their data allowance. Instead, consumers flocked towards micro video-