Why are so many YouTube videos portrait rather than landscape now? - eviltoast

The sheer number of videos taken “the wrong way round” (for my computer’s monitor) is mind-boggling. I get that some people watch videos on their phones, but is it really that many?

  • Billy_Gnosis@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    YouTube started monetizing Shorts and reduced the payouts to regular long form YouTube videos which is anything wide screen and over 60 seconds. It’s pretty much forcing content creators to start doing Shorts if they want to try and not lose as much revenue

    • Saturdaycat@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      TIL, that’s just screwed. Sometimes short form content can be interesting, but 99% of the time I want a video I can watch along to. It’s terrible and I don’t understand the intense appeal these have. Didn’t Vine start it all?