Actually Stupid

I spent too much time on Vine. Everyone was making art—careful shots, ideas that would resonate, things that were supposed to matter. Logan Paul from Ohio just did stupid stuff instead and it was infinitely more interesting.

Not cleverer. Not more ambitious. Just commitment to being absurd. A video of him doing something ridiculous and the complete faith that honesty about stupidity lands harder than trying. He was probably right about that.

Someone compiled his videos and put them on YouTube. I watched longer than I’d want to admit. Anyone who says they didn’t laugh is lying or has genuinely lost their sense of humor, which feels like an actual loss.

Vine’s been gone for years now. YouTube Shorts and TikTok inherited the format but they’re longer and softer. When you have unlimited time you get precious. The whole power of Vine was the constraint—six seconds meant you couldn’t hide behind craft or cleverness. You either made something sharp or you made nothing.