Jane Ruffino: Black culture – to which Vine owes part of its former success – is too often erased

Twitter is closing down the short-form video-sharing service Vine that it bought in 2012. Everyone who has attempted to write about its closure has ended up down a Vine rabbit hole and in minor arguments about which is the best Vine. Is it DMX Llama? Like-a-Bird Corgi? Vine has been hilarious. It isn’t as popular as other platforms, but it has had an outsized social, cultural, and political impact.

It hosted some serious ...