A new app backed by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey is bringing back a slice of Vine. DiVine launches with more than 100,000 restored six-second loops from the original platform’s archive. The app arrives as social platforms fill with AI-generated content, and its creators say it will stop suspected AI videos from ever going live.
DiVine was built using an older backup of Vine clips saved before the platform shut down in 2016. Users can browse the restored archive, create profiles, and upload new Vine-style posts. The app verifies that new uploads were recorded by a real person using smartphone-based checks.
The project was funded by Dorsey’s nonprofit and Other Stuff, which launched in May 2025 to support experimental open source projects.
According to TechCrunch, DiVine flags and prevents AI-generated content by using technology from the Guardian Project, which helps confirm videos were actually recorded on a phone. Any upload that appears synthetic or fails these checks will not be published. The team says this system is intended to keep the experience focused on real recordings.
To build the app, early Twitter employee Evan Henshaw Plath reconstructed a large portion of Vine’s archive. A group called The Archive Team originally saved Vine’s videos as 40 to 50 GB binary files, which required custom scripts to decode and rebuild. This process restored user profiles, view counts, and a subset of comments from the original platform.
DiVine currently includes around 150,000 to 200,000 videos from about 60,000 creators. Many niche uploads, including millions of K-pop-focused clips, were never archived and do not appear in the app. Creators can request takedowns or verify ownership of their old accounts to regain access and post new videos.
“I wasn’t able to get all of them out, but I was able to get a lot out and basically reconstruct these Vines and these Vine users, and give each person a new user [profile] on this open network,” he said.
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