See I view this as a 90s staple, not a forgotten gem, but I can see it. I really loved these types of 90s 1 hit wonders (hate to belittle them with that term). Hum - Stars & Toadies Possum Kingdom are others.  Filter was more of a slightly lasting band but Nice Shot is another.

Yeah, its mostly 15 seconds. Can go up to 60 seconds, early on it seemed less common & they'd lock the higher trending ones to the 15 seconds, probably selling a mindset or addiction to it, lately tho it seems the 60 seconds is popular as well. Its a funny app, I'll say, it does seem to bring people together, more strangers than IG or FB, just videos randomly popup in your feed. So kinda like Twitter, you just scroll down video after video indefinitely. You can 'follow' ppl too, which is a different tab or page, so checking both out is good. People from the south, west coast, NYC, Boston, even UK and other countries although it mostly seems to show me US. It'll find your interests so I like watching skateboarding & guitarists/covers, there's different niches but mostly its comedy too.

Vines a good analogy, a different sense of humor with kids/Gen Z but I find it funny.

Flaggs disappearance is interesting.  I'll admit, I think he & I went at it hard in 2008, and I disliked him much more then. But looking back yeah he disappeared.  He did goto Iraq tho after that, and maybe was there in 2012 or had just recently returned and wasn't on the guns forum, but then yeah 2016 he was on again. And again in 2020.

So, maaaaaybe its all a coincidence that he stirs things up election years then drops, but maybe he gets a kick out of it. Solves a problem in his life. On the other hand tho maybe he views things like whats done is done, and just gets over it and moves on.