"We should call it Xine": Users react hilariously as Elon Musk says his team is "looking into" bringing back Vine

Elon Musk might be about to do what many thought was impossible: bring back Vine. The six-second video app that lived for a brief, chaotic moment between 2012 and 2017 could be rising from the ashes.

And all this comes right when TikTok took a little vacation (aka banned) from the U.S. market. While TikTok's fate is yet to be decided, it might leave a spicy gap in the short-form video scene.

Musk dropped this news on January 19, 2025, saying his team is "looking into" the possibility of resurrecting Vine within X (formerly Twitter).

The internet, however, has had feelings about it. In fact, one user suggested: “We should call it Xine.”

Another user stated: “Girl… we moved on already. Just go get TikTok 😭”

A user thinks: “WE’VE LOST THE PLOT.”

Meanwhile, a user quipped: “Watch him buy TikTok and just turn it into vine.”

A user went on to say: “2025 fr the new 2014.”

A comment read: “Next people will gossip about the return of musically I wonder.”

A user highlighted: “I've heard this same exact headline about 10 times since 2022.”

A user reacted with a meme:

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Is Elon Musk bringing back Vine?

So, in a recent tweet, Musk gave a thumbs up to the idea of bringing back Vine. If he does pull this off, Vine would join the ranks of other platforms like Instagram, which cleverly slid Reels into their lineup.

But as always, Musk needed the people’s opinion (read: a poll) to make this monumental decision. Back on October 31, 2022, he asked the internet if bringing back Vine was a good move. Over 4 million people answered, with 69.6% of them giving a big fat "yes."

Then Axios reported that X’s engineers were tasked with digging through Vine’s ancient codebase. That is like trying to play Fortnite on a flip phone.

At this point, the original Vine code is more or less a digital fossil that needs modernizing to fit in with X's ecosystem. Good luck with that, Musk.

And let's not forget that TikTok is just sitting over here taking over the scene with its algorithmic wizardry. So even if Vine comes back, no promises it'll stick around.

The nostalgia is real, but does it have enough juice to pull users back from platforms like TikTok that are practically built into our DNA at this point?

Vine was a six-second video OG. This one really trended hard for some time, eventually reaching about 200 million users before its early demise in 2017-that's when they axed the thing because, of course, it was way behind Instagram and TikTok.

Fast forward to 2025, and Musk's hopes are high that Vine can have another comeback because the future of TikTok is now uncertain, with some U.S. regulators taking a whack-a-mole to the application.

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Musk's vision for Vine's revival

Musk's dream of reviving Vine is not about reliving the glory days of 2012; it's all part of his grand plan to turn X into the ultimate "everything app."

Basically, he wants X to be the one-stop shop for everything internet, like a digital Swiss Army knife.