Elon Musk recently announced that he's bringing back the Vine archives, after teasing the return of the social platform over the last week or so. The X owner says that the company recently discovered the entire video archive of the once-popular short-form video app and is working to restore user access.

Twitter bought Vine back in 2012 before closing the app to new submissions in 2016. The company has now found the old video archive, and it plans to bring it back.

For quite some time now, Elon Musk has been promising to bring back Vine. Back in the day, the short-lived TikTok precursor allowed users to post dopey 6-second videos that looped and could be easily shared.

Elon Musk has a talent for attracting social-media attention. Can he do the same for a now-defunct, once-popular social video app? We may find out.

Good or bad, it seems like the Vine video archive could resurface in the future, if Elon Musk's word is anything to go by.In a post on X declaring "Grok imagine is AI Vine", Elon Musk bookended the announcement by saying,

Elon Musk announced plans this week to revive Vine, but in "AI form." Here's what we know so far and what people are saying.

Elon Musk just floated the idea of bringing back short-form video service Vine in "AI form," and everything about that sounds like garbage.

Tech giant Elon Musk announced the revival of a beloved relic of the past in an announcement on X, promising a resurrection of the 2010s app Vine – but with a twist. Online users had mixed reactions to the announcement, especially after Musk's controversial AI program began referring to itself as "MechaHitler" on X. Here's what we know.