The six-second loop is back!

Divine launched to the public on April 29, and it's the Vine revival we've been quietly hoping for. Mobile apps are available to download on the App Store and Google Play, or you can head to https://divine.video/ from your browser.

Here's what makes this more than a nostalgia play.

• Divine was built by Evan Henshaw-Plath (aka "Rabble"), one of Twitter's earliest employees. Rabble spent months reverse-engineering 40–50 GB binary files from the Archive Team's old Vine backup, reconstructing not just the videos but the original views, likes, and comments. The result: a working archive of roughly 500,000 Vines from nearly 100,000 original creators, sitting alongside a brand-new posting experience.

• It's funded by "and Other Stuff," the nonprofit Jack Dorsey spun up last May to bankroll experimental open-source social projects. One of his reported regrets is deciding to shutdown Vine in in 2017 after Twitter bought it.

• Divine has a strict no-AI-content rule, with automated detection that flags and removes AI-generated uploads. In a year where every other feed is drowning in synthetic content, this could be an interesting play. (Think it’ll stick?)

For brands and creators: It might just be worth opening an account TODAY.

The classics archive alone (divine.video/discovery/classics) is going to drive a wave of cultural reference and remix energy, and being early on a platform that's defining itself against AI slop is a posture worth claiming now rather than later.

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