If you can hang, you’ve probably caught a cool friend of yours slip a reference into casual conversation every now and then as well. In the past few months, however, I’ve noticed an opposite trend, in which a growing number of people making subtler nods to Vine’s legacy. But just as nobody’s eyebrows are on fleek any longer, every Vine reference seems to have quietly exited from people’s vocabulary and the cultural landscape in general. Some key terms did happen to catch on lexically (the fleeks and the yeets) and gained traction completely separate from the app. Sadly, the app and its accompanying references ultimately faded from relevance, and so did its pervasiveness in youth culture.
