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10 years ago, a person would be insulted for filming a video in portrait instead of landscape. Now, old landscape videos are being cropped and resized to fit in a portrait player.

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Tattorack@lemmy.world
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I’m STILL insulted. Portrait videos suck to look at.

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SendMePhotos@lemmy.world
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Yeah… Well… So do you! ヾ(⌐■_■)ノ♪

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HollandJim@lemmy.world
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Best reason ever to be rid of TikTok.

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Dicska@lemmy.world
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Everything is doing it already. Good luck watching a “horizontal” video uploaded to Instagram from your desktop browser.

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Gabu@lemmy.world
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Why’d you use a Facebook piece of crap like instagram to begin with?

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SendMePhotos@lemmy.world
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Just wait until I release the landscape video platform of… YokYik!

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A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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Well that, and the fact that its a Chinese PsyOp to sow discord and manipulate people into ridiculous, insane behaviors.

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Soggytoast@lemm.ee
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Should be illegal really, jail time.

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milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee
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Somehow I actually read, “arrested” instead of “insulted” first time!

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Beemo Dinosaurierfuß@feddit.de
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Right to jail.

Believe it or not… jail.

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Tramdan@sh.itjust.works
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I wouldn’t mind quite so much if it was because the people filming that way believed it looked better. But the real reason is usually because they are too dumb to think of turning their phone on its side.

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Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Sometimes tall things fit better in a vertical frame.
Sometimes wide things fit better in a horizontal frame.

But most of the time this isnt even thought about when taking the shot.

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thirteene@lemmy.world
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The horizontal display is meant to reflect our natural vision which is also a horizontal aspect ratio. There are niche scenarios like skyscrapers but the vast majority of the time it’s correct to stay horizontal and frame the shot properly.

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Steve@startrek.website
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Vertical videos are the work of Satan

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