Vine Stars Wanted US$1.2M Each to Stay on the App

Before Twitter announced plans to impale off Vine, the app'due south biggest stars reportedly banded together and pitched a plan they idea could relieve it.

Or, at least, they made the effort to.

Mic reported that eighteen of the app's summit creators had a meeting with Vine'due south Creative Development Lead, Karyn Spencer, last fall, during which they demanded US$one.ii million each to keep pumping out content for the platform.

"If Vine agreed, they could theoretically generate billions of views and boost engagement on a starving app," the study noted. "If they said no, all the top stars on the platform would walk."

The group—which reportedly included Jerry Purpdrank, Christian Delgrosso, Curtis Lepore, Alx James, and DeStorm Power—likewise urged Vine to brand several production changes and open up "a more direct line of communication" with creators. They wanted Vine to practice a better job of tackling harassment on the platform, the power to add links to Vine captions, a better recommendation page, and more editing tools, and they wanted these things correct away.

"They never made changes, or when they did it had been too tardily," Piques told Mic.

Vine rejected the proposal, and the stars stopped posting original content. And the rest, they say, is history.

Meanwhile, word has information technology that two of Vine's co-founders—Rus Yusupov and Colin Kroll—are already on to their next project: a Periscope-like app chosen Hype. According to Fortune, Hype is a "live video broadcasting app that lets users add music and animations to their videos." The app is currently in Beta.

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