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Nileseyy Niles Disappears is a photo series based on a Vine video by the comedian Nileseyy Niles (real name: Niles Stewart). The photo series is often used on Black Twitter to indicate someone leaving an embarrassing situation.^[5]

Origin

On April 28th, 2015, Nileseyy Niles posted the first of three successive Vine^[1] videos in which he is in a confusing or aggressive situation. In each video, he holds up a peace sign and uses a special effect to disappear. The first video in the series received 1.8 million loops, the second almost 1 million loops, and the third 1.9 million loops as of April 2016.

Spread

On June 19th, 2015, Twitter user chanelpuke^[2] used Twitter's multiple image upload feature to upload a series of screen captures from Nileseyy Niles's third disappearing Vine, "When you not tryna get jumped." The tweet received 2,329 retweets and 4,114 likes. The next day, the same series of images and accompanying text was used in by a parody WorldStarHipHop account, worldstarfunny,^[3] where it received 4,753 retweets and 5,901 likes. The series of images were frequently used on Twitter after that.

On October 10th, 2015, Nileseyy Niles released a 23 minute video on YouTube^[4] called "Disappearing: The Origin," in which he went into detail on his "his life, his friends and most importantly, how he gained his disappearing abilities." The video gained over 1.15 million views as of April 2016.

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