Posting vertical videos on standard horizontal platforms is still awful.
As opposed to vertical platforms, if that makes sense.
this post was submitted on 03 Jan 2026
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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
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?
A vertical video converted to horizontal and watched on a phone is aggressively unpleasant.
Vertical platforms also suck.
I still fucking do.
Hell yeah, brother!
Until my dying breath
Same.
We still do.
Wait. Where? I don't see it happening anymore
Don't remember the post, but I recently seen an instance in the wild.
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.
Only for the selfie camera.
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.
Be wild and start posting horizontal videos to TikTok.
This. I shared this video sooo much.
Then you all normalized it.
🤬🤦🏽😭
Didn't share it enough 😭
That's because I figured out how to monetize it and started InstaTok.
I have my own tropical island now.
Nice! Tell me about InstaTok, I have varying results when searching for it
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