DeStorm Power basically invented the business of video creating on Vine. The techniques for making successfully funny, smart videos with a six-second time constraint are specific and, when you hear them coming from Power, sound obvious. However, the incredibly popular Vine (and don’t forget YouTube) creator figured them out by trial and error, which he explained to Rhett & Link this week on “Ear Biscuits.”
Like YouTube, Vine didn’t start out as a platform where entertainers could monetize their widely enjoyed content. Because its videos only run for six seconds (okay, 6.5 to be exact), users didn’t initially conceive of the app as a place to host anything complex enough to tell stories, including Power. Eventually, he began seeing Vine videos that verged on storytelling and seized the idea. “We brought the skits to Vine,” he explained.
“We” likely means himself and KingBach, a member of his current Viner “crew” (which includes about 10 creators in total, including Melvin Gregg and Klarity). KingBach actually started making skits on Vine “a few days” before Power, and it turned into the two challenging each other for followers. Power said that he started out with about 3,000 “by default, because my YouTube was big.”
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