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Where Are Your Favorite Vine Stars Today?

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Vine died in 2016, but its biggest stars didn’t disappear with it — they just found new stages.

Nicki Swift’s October 5, 2018 video “Where Are Your Favorite Vine Stars Today?” tracks what happened to five of the platform’s most recognizable names after Twitter pulled the plug on the six-second-loop app. Vine, founded in 2012 by Rus Yusupov, Dom Hofmann, and Colin Kroll, built an entire generation of internet-famous kids before Twitter shuttered it in 2016. The video’s answer, two years later: they diversified into YouTube, Hollywood, pop music, and modeling — with wildly different results.

• Logan Paul (timestamped 0:16) became one of YouTube’s top earners and moved into acting, brand deals, merch, and amateur boxing, all while weathering global backlash from a controversial 2018 video.
• King Bach — real name Andrew Bachelor, covered at 2:02 — turned Vine’s largest following into recurring TV roles on The Mindy Project and Black Jesus, plus a part in Netflix’s The Babysitter.
• Lele Pons (2:55) expanded from slapstick sketches into Latin pop, scoring a 2018 single, “Celoso,” alongside modeling and endorsement deals.

From Six Seconds to Six Figures

Vine’s format was almost comically limiting — a six-second loop, no editing tricks beyond stop-motion tricks users invented themselves — but it turned unknowns into celebrities with follower counts rivaling network TV ratings. When Twitter announced the shutdown in October 2016, the app’s top creators had to figure out, almost overnight, how to keep an audience that had only ever known them in six-second bursts.

The video’s breakdown makes clear that the ones who survived didn’t just port their old content to a new app — they built entirely different careers. Some went legit-Hollywood. Some went full pop star. One went into a boxing ring.

Logan Paul’s Rocky Ascent

Logan Paul is the video’s opening case study at the 0:16 mark, and for good reason — no former Viner has climbed higher or drawn more heat doing it. He built a YouTube vlogging empire, branched into scripted acting, launched merch lines, signed commercial partnerships, and eventually stepped into the ring for high-profile amateur boxing matches. All of that came despite — or arguably because of — the international firestorm he triggered in early 2018 over a controversial video, a saga that echoes the same social-media-fallout stories chronicled in pieces like Actors Who Ruined Their Careers On Social Media.

Brittany Furlan and King Bach Go Legit

Brittany Furlan, profiled at 1:21, was Vine’s most-followed female comedy creator, and she’s used that base to move into acting, sketch comedy on Instagram and Facebook, and public appearances. Her 2018 also came with a headline-grabbing personal turn: her engagement to Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee.

King Bach, appearing at 2:02, was the single most-followed creator Vine ever had, and he’s arguably made the cleanest jump to traditional Hollywood. Beyond his recurring gigs on The Mindy Project and Black Jesus, he landed a feature role in Netflix’s The Babysitter — proof that a six-second comedy sketch and a scripted feature film aren’t as far apart as they look.

Vine’s biggest names didn’t just survive the shutdown — King Bach went from the platform’s most-followed act to a recurring role on The Mindy Project and a part in Netflix’s The Babysitter.

Lele Pons and Cameron Dallas Chase New Platforms

Lele Pons, covered at 2:55, has arguably had the widest reach of anyone in the video — her slapstick comedy translated across Instagram and YouTube into an enormous global following, and by 2018 she’d stretched into Latin pop with the single “Celoso,” plus modeling and major endorsement deals.

Cameron Dallas, at 3:40, rode his Magcon-tour teen-idol fame into a Calvin Klein modeling contract, independent music releases, and acting roles in teen films. He also became the face of Netflix’s 2016 docuseries Chasing Cameron, which chronicled his transition from viral app star to full-blown entertainment brand — a path that runs parallel to other social-first stars now testing the modeling world, like the one detailed in Is Shiloh Jolie-Pitt Ready To Delve Into The Modeling Industry?

Two years after Vine went dark, the throughline in Nicki Swift’s rundown is obvious: the six-second format was never the point — the audience was. Whoever could drag those millions of followers onto Instagram, YouTube, a movie set, or a recording booth kept the career going, and by late 2018, Logan Paul, King Bach, Lele Pons, Brittany Furlan, and Cameron Dallas had all done exactly that, just in five completely different directions.