Vine stars mourn the app that brought them their six seconds of fame

The constraint of the format fostered a new type of creativity for comedians, actors and artists, who have to move on to new platforms now that Vine is dead

The closure of the video-sharing app Vine was met with sadness but some amount of inevitability by an elite group of social media stars who found their six seconds of fame on the app.

Vine, at one time, had 100 million people watching videos every month and 1.5 billion daily video loops. The constraint of the six-second video format fostered a new type of creativity for comedians, actors and artists, which gave rise to Vine stars - internet celebrities who could make a decent living from the platform.