Wrow

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About

Wrow is a stylization of "wow," which was said in a popular Vine video by a man acting sarcastically impressed by a nearby girl vaping. It inspired some remixes and art and is considered one of the best Vines on the platform.

Origin

On February 26th, 2015, Vine user Jared Friedman^[1] posted a video in which a girl is seen vaping at a party. A man then turns to the camera and expresses his mock amazement by saying "wrow." The below YouTube embed has over 54,000 views.

Spread

The Vine grew into one of the most popular Vines on the platform, amassing over 453,000 likes and 226,7000 revines. It's popularity inspired some popular spinoff memes. On May 26th, 2015, Tumblr user macintoshjosh^[3] made glitch art of the Vine, gaining over 13,000 notes (shown below, left). Two years later, ssttaarr-rroovviinngg^[4] made a Cocaine, Marijuana, Beer edit using a still from the Vine that gained over 7,400 notes (shown below, right).

The Vine has also been included in several "best vine" threads on Twitter. On October 27th, 2016, Twitter user @broderick^[2] included in a thread of great Vines, where it gained over 2,500 retweets and 4,600 likes. User @wallscouldtalk^[5] did the same on April 20th, 2017, gaining over 6,500 retweets and 13,000 likes. Meanwhile, people on YouTube made remixes of the Vine, though none were able to gain over 1,000 views (examples shown below).