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If anything Reels is 80% watered down and merely a shorter Instagram videos or igtv. Nothing about the reels experience compares to be honest...

And instagram is known for it's fake userbase. The majority of accounts are probably just bots.

Why do you think Reels is superior to TikTok?

That's great but vine had and still has a great brand. Hopefully there is somebody competent at Elliott pushing for this golden egg to be hatched.

> That's great but vine had and still has a great brand

Gen Z doesn't even know what vine is. That's the majority of tiktok users. Reels and TikTok already have the brand. Relaunching vine would be dumb. Only millennials would care and it would just be the millennials that used it before, not new users.