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10 years ago, a person would be insulted for filming a video in portrait instead of landscape. Now, old landscape videos are being cropped and resized to fit in a portrait player. (lemmy.world)
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[–] TheOneWithTheHair@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Insulted? Vines videos were mostly portrait. 2013-2014 were most-likely its hay day. Vines is dead now, but cell phone videos in portrait were posted to Vines a lot.

Now if you mean music videos or cinema, yeah, portrait would be odd.

[–] Iamdanno@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 8 months ago

Heyday is what you mean, I think.

[–] nul@programming.dev 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Vine was started in early 2013 and in mid to late 2012, this video was popular: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dechvhb0Meo

That's about six months of true vertical video hate before the war was lost.

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