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- Vine’s toxic culture will take a lot more than 6.5 seconds to fix
Posted by : Brij Bhushan
Sunday 2 August 2015
Vine stars are terrible human beings. Horrible. I mean, not all of them, but enough for me to throw that kind of generalization around. Spend even a little time in that fetid swamp of 6.5 second clips, clogged with stolen jokes, racial stereotyping, ‘ironic’ homophobia and just flat out idiocy, and you’ll surely agree. If you don’t, chances are you’re a teenager. There’s no doubt that Vine is an interesting medium. Constraints can create great art. In fact, great art generally doesn’t emerge from being able to do whatever you want. But the trouble with most of Vine’s young, dumb…
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