Vine is back. Sort of. Which is a strange sentence to say in 2026.
Almost a decade after the popular short-form video app had its doors shuttered by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, it has been relaunched as Divine, funded by the very same man who killed it.
Divine serves as both a new host for Vine’s famous six-second videos and an archive of 500,000 videos from OG Vine, which are also hosted on the app. Additionally, one of the stated mission goals with the relaunch of Vine is “freedom from AI slop.”
So, on top of the archive of old Vines, new videos must be human-made, and there’s even a filter for that specifically in the app.
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To enforce the no-AI rule, Divine requires users to either record videos directly within the app or run them through a human verification tool before posting, according to The Guardian. The verification tool is powered by the human rights nonprofit, the Guardian Project.
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The project is being led by Evan Henshaw-Plath, a former Twitter employee known online as Rabble, who originally set out to give old Vines a permanent home. Funding flows through Dorsey’s nonprofit, and Other Stuff, which backs open-source social media projects. Dorsey acknowledged the original platform’s shortcomings in a statement to The Guardian, saying a core principle of the relaunch is that creators will always own their content and followers, while also being able to build their own revenue off of them.
Divine had a test launch back in November of last year that we covered at the time. In an interview with TechCrunch during the 2025 test launch, Henshaw-Plath told the outlet that the goal was to recapture an era of social media built around real people, algorithm control, and authentic content. Not unlike what Vine represented before it was sent to an early grave.
Vine peaked at 100 million monthly active users and helped launch the careers of creators like Logan Paul before Twitter pulled the plug in 2017. Its DNA lives on pretty visibly in TikTok, and Elon Musk once floated the idea of rebooting Vine to compete it. That never happened, and now Dorsey has beaten him to it, ironically enough.
Still, Divine enters a short-form video landscape that looks nothing like 2013. TikTok is entrenched. Instagram Reels is entrenched. YouTube Shorts averages more than 200 billion daily views. Six seconds of human-made video is a bold proposition against that backdrop — but maybe that’s exactly the point.
Divine is available now at the Google Play Store and Apple App Store.
