I still fucking do.

Posting vertical videos on standard horizontal platforms is still awful.

As opposed to vertical platforms, if that makes sense.

They got popular because the camera sensors were rectangular (i.e. the shape of the phone) and people just held their phones naturally. Vertical videos came about organically.

The new iPhone (17 series) has square camera sensors. It'll determine whether you shoot vertical or horizontal depending on the subjects. Vertical if it's just you. Horizontal if a few people flank you.

For me it's like people posting m. links. They force desktop (/laptop) users into viewing the mobile site, while mobile users will just default to the mobile site. Why it doesn't work the other way (desktop users being forced to the desktop site) is beyond me. But the sites just share the m. version by default, so users are acting maliciously without intending to.

It's just mobile devices making things worse. They don't have to. Vertical videos and m. links only look good on mobile. Horizontal videos and normal sites look fine on mobile and always have.

We still do.

It's a symptom of smartphone first internet. I hate it.

Yes, I will book flights and hotels on a computer only. Yes, I will make big purchases on a computer only. I don't have Vine, Twitter, the pictures of food app, or even MySpace for that matter. GTFO with that brainrot.

Be wild and start posting horizontal videos to TikTok.

Vertical Video Syndrome

Someone should make an app like tik tok but it's a feed of landscape videos only. Give them a 10 minute limit and you could have some cool widescreen entertainment with the infinite scroll hit, swipe right for next, left for back. Have a warning shaming people for using portrait videos.

I still do