The 23 Most Important Vines of All Fourth dimension

Video-sharing app Vine — which volition exist discontinued in the coming weeks — was ane of the strangest, dumbest, and most creative places online. Merely don't take our word for it! What follows are the greatest Vines of all time, as called by Select All editors and colleagues. They are in no particular order, and run the full gamut of Vine — from stupidly hilarious to hilariously stupid. Long may they loop in our retentivity.

In many ways, the Apple Store woman was the quintessential Vine. She is at once both hilarious in her acrimony, and understandable. Anyone who owns an Apple product has had to endure the Apple Store. This adult female is a monument to that experience. —Brian Feldman

The brevity of Vines and the easiness of recording them made them superb for capturing moments that nobody might believe otherwise, such every bit the Squidward dabbing. Nobody would believe that this happened were information technology not for Vine, and honestly, I still kinda don't. —BF

Then many questions most this one, but the ii I e'er think of are: (1) why wasn't this released as a single, and (2) what's up with the toilet? —BF

Vine, for as brusk-lived equally information technology was, diameter new additions to the cultural vocabulary that will outlast u.s.a. all. Never forget "on fleek," created past Peaches Monroee two years ago to describe the adjacent-level flawlessness of her eyebrows. (Considering "on point" but didn't do them justice.) It has since been adapted (and appropriated) for those crucial "feeling myself" moments, no affair how uncool you nevertheless audio maxim information technology out loud. —Dee Lockett

This is the Vine that finally made me understand the hypnotizing power of the Loop. Every time I lookout man information technology, I think, "This is it. This time, the video will keep on and we'll see the sign hit the ground." But the sign never hits the ground and shatters, and it never volition. —BF

The sole purpose of Vine was to set bated all dignity in the name of internet fame. Grown folks knew this, teens knew this, merely young children? They are mere pawns in the scheme, but dammit, if they haven't been responsible for some of the best Vines. Just look at this little star-in the-making — she slyly pretends she won't "practise it for the Vine," but yous know she will. And when she does "it," you'll cook forever. —DL

We all know that the audio of one rubber duck toy honking is annoying. But who knew that the sound of a whole bin is (1) more like pained moaning, and (2) completely horrifying? What really gets me is the wide-eyed frozen expressions painted on the ducks' faces, as if they're trying to become somebody, anybody, to assistance free them from this miserable, loud, rubbery existence. I wonder how long it took for this hideous flock's moans to dice out afterwards the Viner slinked away. Pour one out for all the toy-store employees who had to deal with teens re-creating this nightmare. —Marissa Cetin

Me. —BF

At that place are a million different things happening in this Vine. It's like one of those subconscious-image galleries in Highlights where y'all had to find the shoe hidden in the tree. Each time you lookout man it, something wrong — and nevertheless, so right — volition reveal itself. In the history of civilization, there has never been a joke funnier than dialing 911 into a microwave. —BF

On a trip home from McDonald's, after Vine star Lauren Lavoie executed one well-placed pump of the brakes, her sister Joanne gagged on a McFlurry spoon and emitted a guttural retch that would later get the audio centerpiece of a Vine that would reach 70 million users. The moment, the gag specifically, went onto go a favorite meme among power Vine users and was remixed countless times to great pop-cultural consequence. — Kenny Wassus

For whatever, tragic reason, the original Vine of Scottish teenager Trish Simmonds pretending to drive her mom's car has been removed. Merely the brusque flick loses none of its power every bit a YouTube that retains the full narrative arc: Trish is in the automobile, and and so her mom tells her to get out of the auto, and so Trish is pitiful. Poetry. — Max Read

This is probably Jeb! Bush'due south virtually important contribution to this election, edited by Election Vine Hero Vic Berger IV from a campaign video of "Jeb[!]'due south Silicon Valley Favorites," in which Jeb! literally merely names things. The *chef's kiss* of the Vine is whatever that uncomfortable intake of jiff and smile Jeb! is. Delight handclapping! —MC

As lovely and warm and funny as Vine could be, it could besides be a place of unspeakable (but still, honestly, funny) violence. Shovel girl — Miranda Fugate — is fine, by the way. —MR

It isn't what nosotros say that defines us, but what nosotros do when solitary in our apartment. Korean Viner hemtube showed us how she celebrates new comfortable pajamas with the help of her true cat and a killer loop lifted from vaporwave artist Abode. —Byron Hulcher

The rhythmically perfect pairing of Migos'southward "Ounces" and the floor routine of a person in a very elaborate unicorn costume, at what appears to be some sort of children's associates, makes this Vine transcendent. An added bonus are the two seated mascot types in the groundwork at the very beginning of the clip, who play the perfect hypemen as our unicorn star begins its march into Vine infamy. — Andrew Leigh

In 2015, a yr fraught with tension toward constabulary and issues with filming them, Vine user A-RODney Male monarch added much-needed levity when he demanded an on-duty and unexpecting officer answer for his Frankenstein-esque gainsay boots. "WHAT ARE THOSE?" went onto garner about xl million loops, and prompted thousands of users to create their own takes of the meme. —KW

Canadian Vine star Jus Reign wants to know: Practise these guys fifty-fifty mind to Drake? Reign, a breakout star for videos in which he plays himself and a stern male parent who calls him ugly, is a master of squeezing both a joke, and its surreal unraveling, into the short six seconds Vine allows. —MR

TFW you hear Vine is getting shut downwards. —MR

The best Vines surprised you with a new spin on a classic vocal. The best Viners were black high schoolhouse students. Therefore, this is a perfect Vine. — Sarah Caldwell

The dazzler of this Vine is that you think this prodigious Quiznos employee is nailing information technology with his sign twirls and flips … that is, until the narrator swoops in with a pithy ascertainment. It's rough out there for a sign spinner. — Christine Nguyen

Whatever happened to the original "That'due south My Best Friend" Vine seems to be about as much of a mystery as how Kendall Jenner and Young Thug besides came to be credited for it. Still, in that location's no question that rapper Toyko Vanity, in ane tribute to her BFF, created an instant-classic meme across her ain control. She even turned it into a full vocal and ringtone! We'll always remember it as our best anthem for Smooth Theory. —DL

WorldStarHipHop used to be the place nosotros all went to indulge our petty tendencies, but who knew the most scathing playground fight in heart-school history would alive on Vine? There is no recovering from this level of poised graphic symbol assassination. RIP to all her haters. —DL

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The 23 Most Important Vines of All Time