The real question is which is worse: vertical video that's 80% black bars cause it's just a horizontal video, or a vertical video that's 80% cropped out cause it was a horizontal video shoehorned onto a vertical video platform?
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.
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.
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.
my phone gets turned off when I'm done work, and weekends. if I leave the house, I turn it on only for music then it's off when I get back home. quick check of messages or whatever before bed, then off. I'm frankly done with portable 24/7 internet.
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.
25 Comments
zabadoh@ani.social · 50 pts · 241d
Posting vertical videos on standard horizontal platforms is still awful.
As opposed to vertical platforms, if that makes sense.
yum@lemmy.eco.br · 32 pts · 241d
Best I can offer is a vertical video converted to horizontal (it now has huge black bars on each side), shown on a vertical platform
TabbsTheBat@pawb.social · 10 pts · 241d
The real question is which is worse: vertical video that's 80% black bars cause it's just a horizontal video, or a vertical video that's 80% cropped out cause it was a horizontal video shoehorned onto a vertical video platform?
moody@lemmings.world · 8 pts · 241d
A vertical video converted to horizontal and watched on a phone is aggressively unpleasant.
Pulptastic@midwest.social · 5 pts · 241d
Vertical platforms also suck.
Jumbie@lemmy.zip · 32 pts · 241d
I still fucking do.
yum@lemmy.eco.br · 9 pts · 241d
Hell yeah, brother!
MyDarkestTimeline01@ani.social · 5 pts · 241d
Same.
mycodesucks@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 241d
Until my dying breath
remon@ani.social · 23 pts · 241d
We still do.
yum@lemmy.eco.br · 4 pts · 241d
Wait. Where? I don't see it happening anymore
remon@ani.social · 3 pts · 241d
Don't remember the post, but I recently seen an instance in the wild.
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 19 pts · 241d
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.
Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 241d
Only for the selfie camera.
Randelung@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 241d
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.
Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 239d
my phone gets turned off when I'm done work, and weekends. if I leave the house, I turn it on only for music then it's off when I get back home. quick check of messages or whatever before bed, then off. I'm frankly done with portable 24/7 internet.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 8 pts · 241d
Be wild and start posting horizontal videos to TikTok.
Macallan@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 241d
Vertical Video Syndrome
GlassHalfHopeful@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 241d
This. I shared this video sooo much.
Then you all normalized it.
🤬🤦🏽😭
yum@lemmy.eco.br · 1 pts · 240d
Didn't share it enough 😭
GlassHalfHopeful@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 240d
That's because I figured out how to monetize it and started InstaTok.
I have my own tropical island now.
yum@lemmy.eco.br · 1 pts · 240d
Nice! Tell me about InstaTok, I have varying results when searching for it
givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 241d
We still do, but we used to too
dumbass@piefed.social · 2 pts · 241d
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.
regdog@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 241d
I still do