A Tragic Social Media Fairy Tale
Fans and brands rooted for them to be together but did they like one another?
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9 min readAug 4, 2022
Curtis Lepore and Jessi Smiles (aka Jessica Vazquez) were on the upper tier of Vine stars in 2013 and 2014. Fans responded to their respective personalities. Both were also able to turn quirky, physical-based humor into the six-second clips that the social media app was renowned…