Vertical videos are the work of Satan
Say No to old Mila Kunis.
i still judge people who film in portrait tbh. I can’t stand vertical videos, it’s the main reason i never made a tiktok.
Their children’s eyes will grow closer and closer together from one generation to another until no one has depth perception past the front of their face. /s
Is this why people find Anya Taylor-Joy attractive?
No, that’s because she IS attractive and you are being weird, shitty and judgmental. Like you’re allowed to have whatever beauty preferences you want, but idk why you are going out of your way to call her unattractive.
Anya Taylor-Joy
Her eyes are too far apart and her head is oddly proportioned to her chin. She isn’t UGLY or anything but she isn’t that attractive.
And often it’s not even a tiktok thing, it’s just laziness and/or forgetting to rotate.
Hell, even Tiktok allows horizontal videos, even instructs you to turn the screen if it’s vertical!
It’s because we didn’t shame them hard enough. Now look where we are.
I still don’t like vertical videos. My natural field of view is landscape and portrait feels crowded and stressful. Also vertical videos have to be watched 2-3 times to see everything, because the person filming has to pan the camera so much, and they usually move too quickly. It’s like everyone forgot that a phone can be rotated.
I’m STILL insulted. Portrait videos suck to look at.
Yeah… Well… So do you! ヾ(⌐■_■)ノ♪
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Best reason ever to be rid of TikTok.
Well that, and the fact that its a Chinese PsyOp to sow discord and manipulate people into ridiculous, insane behaviors.
Just wait until I release the landscape video platform of… YokYik!
Everything is doing it already. Good luck watching a “horizontal” video uploaded to Instagram from your desktop browser.
Why’d you use a Facebook piece of crap like instagram to begin with?
I don’t use it actively (I’m not even logged in) but a good bunch of my friends keep sending me links. It would sound pretty mean if I just refused to open so many links to so many people on so many platforms (I consider TikTok even worse). I was talking about the phenomenon in general and brought up Instagram as an example.
That’s not recent…
Black bars get added to both formats often, sometimes back and forth until the video is a tiny rectangle and 90% useless black space
And people still talk shit about when someone used the wrong one to record.
I’m relegated to just talking shit on people who clearly have a copy of the original video, but upload it to the internet by playing it on their screen and shakily pointing their phone’s camera at it rather than just uploading the fucking file.
I blame iOS’s poor file management.
It’d have to be magical to be utilized by the average iOS user.
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.
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.
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.
Only if the action is wider than it is tall.
I’ve been videoing my daughter learning to swim. It’s actually easier to capture it in portrait. Landscape would just have a lot more empty pool, for no gain.
Both have their place, though a lot of people are also idiots when filming.
Should be illegal really, jail time.
Right to jail.
Believe it or not… jail.
Somehow I actually read, “arrested” instead of “insulted” first time!
My unpopular opinion is that whatever you record should consider the format it’ll be viewed in as well as the orientation of the subject in the video. Is it going to be viewed on a phone, one handed, while someone is eating or pooping? Then vertical might make sense. If the subject fits better in a vertical video, then that makes sense as well.
Fuck it. Let’s just record in squares and they can be cropped either way. The circular lense doesn’t just record in portrait or landscape, right?.. Wait… Or does it?.. It’s actually a circular lense but the sensor itself might be rectangular… Hmm…
Shooting I’m square crop has been a thing for a while now, it means clients can re-crop the same footage for different outputs. And usually means framing is a nightmare and never really works out well for any of the output formats.
Why would you do that? People don’t even watch shows in portrait even when they use their phones. They watch short form content designed to fill idle moments. It is nearly exclusively bullshit filler or one person content. Real content will continue to be viewed in landscape forever.
Just forget about rectangles altogether, circular video is where it’s at!
Circular phones.
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If the content isn’t one person yaking full frame its going to be pointless to use portrait. It’s just practically unsuitable
Fuck tiktok/shorts
I don’t mind either way to watch something. But what really shits me is the vertical video that has added padding on the sides to view in landscape. Or the other way around. I can’t see anything when watching on my phone either way then.
Like it was impossible for websites to display properly. Especially when you want to watch the horizontal video that was uploaded to a vertical based site on a horizontal monitor (I’m looking at you, Instagram). Then you’re left with ~9% of your monitor area and you can’t even read the fucking text on the video.
I understand that you need to adapt when most people watch videos on phones now, but forcing people to install an app just to get all your user data is a pretty scummy move. Also, I may want to use my PC instead for a multitude of reasons.
One day TV makers are going to switch to 9 by 16 screens, vertical portrait mode TVs on the wall. Im from the future. Check back in 10 years, you will see.
the problem with that, and a big reason why it probably won’t be adapted, is that portrait mode shows you fuck all, it’s good for showing one person (you know like a portrait) but if you want to show multiple people you have so much deadspace top and bottom. Landscape is just aesthetically better
Also, our freaking eyes are horizontal. There’s no way around that
Uh, lie down
You’d still need landscape video.
just stack people on top of each other
The Sero from Samsung back in 2020 is how it all started to go sideways.
Or in this case, upways?
I’d like to think the opposite of sideways is downways
Was trying to be semi-funny based on how the screen changes orientation.
You are probably right though.
Oh, I was trying to build off of your joke by saying that the change from horizontal to vertical video is a downgrade haha
Of course.
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Thanks to tiktok…
Non-landscape videos give me mental discomfort.
