• brax@sh.itjust.works
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    13 hours ago

    Is it that people enjoy it, or is it that these shit platforms are shovelling it en masse so people are forced to adopt it? There is nearly 0 need for vertical videos

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      12 hours ago

      There’s no conspiracy here.

      It’s far more comfortable to watch vertical videos in a phone instead of having to rotate it constantly for each video.

      It’s also more comfortable to record videos vertically using a phone, which makes a direct translation to post a vertical video in a platform that’s phone oriented.

      A platform like tiktok would be really shitty with horizontal videos. It’s clearly a platform designed around vertical videos and people enjoy it, it works just fine.

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        5 hours ago

        Wierd, I find it equally comfortable to hold the phone in either orientation, but way easier to record when holding the phone horizontally since I can get more in the shot at once. As an added bonus, I can also enjoy it just as well (or more) on a regular screen. Again, vertical videos are a waste.

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          3 hours ago

          Moat of these platforms are not recording things that benefit from horizontal recording. It’s not a cinematic shot, they are not making movies.

          Take into account that the content on this platforms tend to be personal videos. A person talking, dancing, something like that. It’s a type of videos that get fits better in a vertical format anyway.

          We all have read the copypasta about vertical videos back in 2002 but times have changed.

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          8 hours ago

          This is only because you are a person of culture, taste, and good upbringing. It’s unrewarding to argue with these ignorant peons who somehow have been brainwashed to believe vertical is in any way OK.