Q: You might be asked like thirty times before you write a response but in case you haven't, Vine had just announced that they are discontinuing their service in the coming months. They'll keep old videos online. I remember back before History of Japan you were kinda in a love-hate relationship with Vine because it allowed you to trim and really concentrate your content, but doing so was kinda addicting(?) in a way and it sorta stagnated you from making longer videos until you made the bold move to cut Vine off entirely during HoJ production. I'm sorry if this question seems to be spiraling out of control or maybe I'm just rambling, but I'm curious to understand why Vine was an appealing outlet for your content at the time and if you've "grown out" of it and don't mind the discontinuation too much or if you still have some fondness for that service. Thanks for reading, regardless!
A: i was already making short videos (because it was a good way to get used to making videos), and about a year into it i found out there was a popular platform where the videos were supposed to be short, and they are auto-looped. so it seemed like a good decision to try to get the videos onto there. by the time i actually got most of them on there i was really getting ready to get Off the 5-day schedule and start looking at longer stuff. but then the popularity kicked in on vine (but still not so much on yt because vine doesn't let you put links to anywhere!!), so i had to do more short ones, just when i was really ready to do longer ones. so i had to sort of bend over backwards to condense the 7 day vine production down to as quick as possible to have enough time to try some long stuff, and after 3 months i finally finished one which actually did very well, and within a couple weeks i was doing better outside of vine than on vine. so by that point, not only have i made 200 more short videos than i ever really intended to, now i have a whole new audience which actually gets mad at me for doing short videos. so that's 2 reasons it's time to shift. don't get me wrong, i will still do things of all lengths and types. the original reason i did short things is because i like to do things of all different lengths, and i always wrote things of all different lengths, but the short ones are the quickest to produce, so i always fell into the trap of producing the short ones first, early on, because it is really the only way to get started