and I’ll still be here wondering why the fuck people continue to shoot vertical
Phone users want to consume short form video that way.
Because it works on phones?
So does landscape.
I mean sure, but if you look at it that way, vertical also ‘works’ on TVs.
The point is that when you’re scrolling through stuff on your phone, you do it portrait.*
*Since this is the internet, I know I’m going to get a “But I scroll through everything on my phone landscape”, because of course I will. That’s cool. Go chat about it with the other 0.002% of people who do that.
You can’t turn your TV sideways without a lot of headache and potential damage, though.
I mean, I get your overall point, but the initial analogy doesn’t quite work.
Don’t be pedantic.
Surprising nobody. This is like when Instagram and WhatsApp introduced
Snapchat stories“Updates”.Very smooth, Mr. Musk! Masterful subtlety! Utmost discretion!
Very demure, very mindful.
Considering that nazi content has been otherwise decently moderated on the other major vertical video platforms, I expect that we’re going to see a new wave of youth propaganda since no such moderation exists on Twitter. There’ve been attempts by the right to get into TikTok, but you can only say so much hateful shit before they actually ban you so they’ve had to keep a semblance of civility there, so it’s a little scary to think of what’ll happen when that sort of content goes unchallenged on a major social platform now that they can say the quiet parts out loud.
What?
You do realise the far right is explicitly using tiktok and has been extremely successful there. They have awful nazi shit on it. Just the algorithm doesn’t shove it in your face if you’re a leftist à la Musk.
Maybe it varies by country, but I’ve seen no shortage of far-right content on TikTok.
They basically endorsed Trump with their latest stunt. Pretty sure they’re shouting the “quiet part” right now.
It seems our time with calling it “x (formerly twitter)” and “X/Twitter” have finally come to a close.
It’s Twitter. The man deadnames his own daughter; I’m sure as hell gonna deadname his social cesspool.
Rather call it X and shame the people still on it.
No matter how hard they want to play make believe that it’s twitter, they know that they are on Elon Musk’s X.
Fair take. I just always considered Twitter a shithole to begin with. I don’t give him the honor of renaming it because he thinks his kids shouldn’t get the same rights as a software package in that regard.
It is a shithole but you’ll never do anything that will ever get to Musk’s eyes. Users in here might actually see you call them shitheads for still being on X.
I just call it “X (formerly Twitter)” for SEO reasons.
How in the FUCk can I search for a single letter in order to find anything?
Haha I never thought about this, that’s a good point. Might even bring up results for Tesla model x, or elons son named x…
Nice
