Vine
Only true INTERNET VETERANS remember vine.
Vine was a short-form social video sharing website launched on the Apple App Store on January 24, 2013. It was mercilessly killed by Twitter a mere four years later, on January 17, 2017. Some groups have attributed the shutdown of vine to mark the Beginning of the Apocalypse.
Post-Mortem
Rioting broke out globally immediately following the Announcement of Vine's shutdown, 911 lines went out of service a combined 58 times the following week. Vine-related deaths were uncountable, experts estimate the total was in the low millions. The countless religions which had formed around vine, praising the application as an idol, crumbled violently, with at least 1 report of mass-suicide being made in an unnamed desert in Nevada.
After everything settled down, there were many attempts to ressurrect the beloved site, with varied results. Vine's co-founder made one of these attempts, and made Byte in 2020. Byte was a one-to-one copy-and-paste of Vine, with the same video length restriction as in 2013. Byte wasn't fit to survive in a modern world, so it was unceremoniously euthanized after suffering for 3 more years. but there already was a vine reincarnation when byte was in the other corner floundering, because no more than a year after vines shutdown, this weird thing nobody had ever heard of called musical.ly was being reconfigured into some other weird thing that everyone has heard of called TikTok.
Many devout followers of Vine who still survive believe that there was no mistake in labelling the app's shutdown as the Beginning of the Apocalypse, attributing TikTok as being some manner of Antichrist.