Does He Have a Point Though? 🤨
Summary
A stranger on the subway has strong opinions about vertical video, calling it "one of the worst things that's happened in a hundred years of filmmaking and cinema." Kareem pushes back hard. The rider argues that since phones are vertical, vertical content makes sense. Your eyes are horizontal, Kareem counters. Movie theater screens are huge and horizontal for a reason. The stranger isn't buying it, insisting you don't need vertical eyes to enjoy vertical content. It's a surprisingly heated debate about aspect ratios and how we consume media in the smartphone era.
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It's one of the worst things that's happened in a hundred years of filmmaking and cinema. What's your take? Vertical video has been an absolute cultural travesty.
Absolutely disagree. Any phone is vertical, so why would you make a horizontal video? Because your eyes are horizontal. That's the dumbest thing.
No, it's not. It's not. You see the world horizontal. My brother in Christ, you go to a movie theater, the screen is huge. It makes sense that you're horizontal, that it would be horizontal. When you have your eye—when you have a phone in front of your face, you're—you don't need vertical eyes to enjoy vertical content.