Your Vines are safe — for now

Vine is shutting down, but the app's videos are still safe for the moment.

The mobile app that records six-second video loops will shut down in the coming months, Twitter announced Thursday. But Vine users' videos will indefinitely stay as they are.

"Nothing is happening to the apps, website or your Vines today," Vine wrote in its announcement. "We value you, your Vines, and are going to do this the right way. You’ll be able to access and download your Vines. We’ll be keeping the website online because we think it’s important to still be able to watch all the incredible Vines that have been made. You will be notified before we make any changes to the app or website."

In 2015, Vine said that users watched 347 billion loops in just under a year. And although Recode reported that 200 million people saw Vines somewhere online as of July, app's user base had stopped growing.

Twitter bought Vine in 2012 for $30 million. The company, which has been exploring a sale, could keep moving Vine's capability over to Twitter after the standalone app shuts down or get rid of the six-second format entirely.

We can only hope everyone's Vines are preserved.