The Best and Funniest Vines

When Twitter announced that it was shutting down Vine, the team at New York magazine’s Select All wrote about their favorite vines. Read the full post with mine and others’ contributions, published Oct. 27, 2016.

We all know that the sound of one rubber duck toy honking is annoying. But who knew that the sound of a whole bin is (1) more like pained moaning, and (2) completely horrifying? What really gets me is the wide-eyed frozen expressions painted on the ducks’ faces, as if they’re trying to get somebody, anybody, to help free them from this miserable, loud, rubbery existence. I wonder how long it took for this hideous flock’s moans to die out after the Viner slinked away. Pour one out for all the toy-store employees who had to deal with teens re-creating this nightmare.