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brax@sh.itjust.works 2 days agoWhen I watch videos on my phone, I rotate my phone so the videos are oriented in the best way for videos to be oriented.
Not only are vertical videos trash, they often come packages with modified players that are equally trash. Thankfully (for now at least) you can fix YouTube by switching /shorts/ to /watch/ in the URL.
daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Most people don’t do that. The format of the videos is going to adjust to its public. Short videos meant for TikTok, stories or shorts, are going to have a vertical format because that’s the way most people will enjoy them.
brax@sh.itjust.works 1 day 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
daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day 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.
brax@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Wierd, I fing 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 st 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.