Kenny Knox
Appearances
Vine: Six Seconds That Changed The World
6. VIVs (Very Important Viners)
I feel like my class of creators were really a dope class. I loved how they had a class of Viners every year and then they would have a Vine panel and Vine pushes them. And that was like a really great time. Karen and them like stepped a game up and made sure the next up and coming creators could be paid.
Vine: Six Seconds That Changed The World
6. VIVs (Very Important Viners)
She had like set up Vine events like when we went to New York. We did a short film in Wisconsin. She flew all of us out to Wisconsin. We did a camping trip. We filmed a short film and they flew us to L.A. for VidCon. We went to Disney. They rented out Denny's and IHOP, and we had free merch and our own panel. She gave us all community tabs, like spotlight pages, and we all got featured.
Vine: Six Seconds That Changed The World
6. VIVs (Very Important Viners)
And then when people download the Vine app, our accounts will pop up on the suggested accounts. So we would get a whole bunch of new followers whenever people downloaded Vine just because.
Vine: Six Seconds That Changed The World
6. VIVs (Very Important Viners)
We were making content essentially for free. Literally for free. But Vine was so much fun and the community was so dope. But see, Karen would pay us, not all of us. She would invite groups of Viners to events and we'd get paid to be there. So she would find loopholes and stuff to pay us. But like...
Vine: Six Seconds That Changed The World
6. VIVs (Very Important Viners)
twitter on vine so it's only so much she could do oh that's that that's the first i think we've heard of that so she would pay some pay you to go to events yeah that's quite smart i remember i never just fly to a different state i'm going to new york i ain't never been to new york that was like i was like yo and i get to stay at a five-star hotel and i don't have to pay for anything
Vine: Six Seconds That Changed The World
6. VIVs (Very Important Viners)
You say, I can get how much? I thought $100 was a lot back then. Like one of them events, she paid all of us like $6,000. I was just like, I am a kid. I just graduated high school. I would love to take that. I was like, yes. And then all my friends kept telling me to go to college, go to school, do this, do that. And I'm like, no, I'm riding this wave until I can't ride it no more.
Vine: Six Seconds That Changed The World
6. VIVs (Very Important Viners)
I love Karen for life, though. She showed nothing but love in me my whole career. Like, my whole career. Even after Vine, she made sure I had a manager when I moved to L.A. She made sure I had, like, some work. Like, Karen a goat. Like, she don't owe me anything. Karen done a lot for me, and I'm forever thankful. It's a hell of gratitude to her. That's right.
Vine: Six Seconds That Changed The World
4. Not Demure
I mean, shoot, that's how we all blew up. Like, I didn't have enough pride to just be like, yo, I don't want any revines. Like, because I would have enough activity. All I needed was, like, at least two or three revines, and they'd take it over the hill. So, Revive for Revive helped. I mean... I feel like that was the greatest, one of the greatest features that actually worked on a platform.
Vine: Six Seconds That Changed The World
4. Not Demure
Twitter, maybe. TikTok repost is not as effective as Vine repost. Like, you can change somebody's life with a revine, dog. Like, I remember I had a homie. He was just real cool in high school. My Vine was so, like, nuclear at one point, I remember. He said he wanted to start Vine. I re-Vined like three Vines. And he got to like 6,500 followers. We grew up with each other.
Vine: Six Seconds That Changed The World
4. Not Demure
He had like 200 followers. And I was like, yo, he look, he funny. And I said, I'm going to re-Vine him to the morning. I re-Vined like three of his Vines. He woke up to like a thousand followers. And I was like, damn, it was fun. It was just, I really just liked Vine because of the community. This is considered stealing with content.
Vine: Six Seconds That Changed The World
4. Not Demure
If you're just straight up stealing cadences, you're stealing shot for shot, you're stealing the concept. It's like you're basically stealing their identity, their creative social security number. So it's just like, this is how it was on Vine. If you put IB and you put their name in the caption,
Vine: Six Seconds That Changed The World
4. Not Demure
But if you stole somebody's video on Vine and you did not tag them, their audience will attack you in the comics. They don't play that shit. They were like, yo, you stole this from Kenny.
Vine: Six Seconds That Changed The World
4. Not Demure
Like, that's just from Vine. I say swag. That's my culture when I was younger. But they call it aura now. So sometimes I was like, man, I got aura.
Vine: Six Seconds That Changed The World
4. Not Demure
It was damn near over 100 black creators online. If not more, but it was like a whole Black Vine community. And it's a lot of slept on like creators that a lot of people didn't grow up with Vine. Might have just seen like Vine compilations or only watch popular creators. It was like levels to it. It was like really cool and organic where they will make lifestyle videos.
Vine: Six Seconds That Changed The World
4. Not Demure
And then they had turned scenarios that happened with the people in the Black Vine community into memes. And that's where a lot of the popular memes came from. Random black people. And so when we say things like that, like, of course, people is going to repeat it or start adding it to their lingo because a lot of people be forgetting we influencers. We influence the masses.
Vine: Six Seconds That Changed The World
4. Not Demure
That's what made Vine cool because it was like, you can find any group of people on Vine and find great friends. It was just a great community.
Vine: Six Seconds That Changed The World
4. Not Demure
You know, it's a part of it. Originally, they know where it came from. I know where it came from, but it's just like paying homage. I feel like if you taking something directly from me or like you taking my identity, my like niche, my style of video, like you taking everything from me.
Vine: Six Seconds That Changed The World
4. Not Demure
You know, I feel a certain type of way, but I mean, if it's different, if it's something from us and they just saying, oh, this is a meme or it just depends how the person who's saying it just discredit the people who created it. But I feel like it's just a part of culture.
Vine: Six Seconds That Changed The World
4. Not Demure
Like when terms go crazy, it's like I'm glad that's going far because I can't gatekeep lingo or a term or I try not to envy anybody or anything. Because usually if somebody's like inspired by me and they make videos like me, I just reach out to them and work with them. Iron sharpens iron.
Vine: Six Seconds That Changed The World
4. Not Demure
If you making videos like me, I feel like with me doing comedy for the longest, I was just imitating my favorite comedians until I learned how to actually do comedy.
Vine: Six Seconds That Changed The World
7. The Battle of Vine Street
It was this changing of the guard moment on the internet. They experienced so much hate. You let Vine die in front of you.