Not meaning to be flip or instantly argumentative in pushing back, but couldn’t this be considered an internet problem more than a social media/influencer problem? As an outdoorsman myself, people have been stomping off trail, etching their name next to petroglyphs, and spray painting rocks since i was a kid and im…

It’s weird when people complain ‘bout this cause I live in a pretty populous city and have never encountered an “influencer.” No tik-tokkers dancing, models obviously posing, people saying “hey guys!” into their phones. I’ve been to like a pumpkin patch and people are taking lotsa photos, but the difference between a…

Thanks for the tip! 🙏

Me giving you the benefit of the doubt isn’t the “gotcha” you think it is, ya silly goose! Being instantly dismissive of others won’t get ya far in this life.

Right? Shoulda realized you were a hack troll this whole time. You’ve “won.”

I like how you say nothing over and over!

He’s got fired from a job for making bad jokes, which means he has a loyal, built-in fanbase of online chuds who will follow him off a cliff and I’m sure are being very normal and chill towards you in the greys right now.

…who’s choice? The choice to hold a phone the most comfortable way it fits in one hand? The design and software development choices that make it so I can pull my phone out, swipe to the camera, and take a vertical video, all with one hand; it’s designed for that ease of use. I’m not not being willfully obtuse in…

yeah, that’s all I’m saying; a phone sits well vertically in the hand, and lots of people and apps default to video formatted that way. Even if I think horizontal makes more sense due to being inured to tv and film, I see why vertical video dominates the online/app space.

We kinda do both, right? Left -> right, top -> bottom. But, to your point, we mostly don’t print books wide, we print them tall.

yet we print books in portrait, not landscape

Sorry, I’m struggling to conjure up anything as “colossally dumb” as complaining about how phones are designed, how most people use their phones as though that’s not a natural and ergonomic way to hold the dang thing, most likely while on a phone, on social media (don’t kid yourself, kinja is social media). 

this only emphasizes how weird it is to be upset about vertical video.

You strike me as the kind of person who takes every picture with the flash on.

Unless phones change, there will be a reason to film certain things vertically.

The hyperbolic headline and butchering of the original quote sure makes it sound like full episodes were going to be filmed vertically (which makes no sense for the tv viewing public), when in reality hbo was proposing short “mini” episodes filmed vertically.

Oh I’ve seen the subreddit. Heck, I even have a couple greys responding here saying “yOu’RE nOt aLLoWeD tO sAy BaD tHiNgS oR tHeY’lL put U iN wOkE jAiL.”

Funny, I heard Brian Baungartner was trying to put together a sitcom about baggage handlers. I’d imagine the airport as a workplace is ripe with stories but the general crappiness of the experience is hard to navigate humorously without bumming people out. TSA seems like it’d have that same potential, but with the…

López, dang it, i got my Issa’s confused. Apologies to them both. Or compliments, if they find the comparison flattering.

Honestly, my gripes with this season had little to do with whether Rae “got True Detective right.” It’s an anthology series with a rocky past; take it in whatever direction you want. But hearing a lot of what Rae is saying about her approach to the project is...in contrast with what I saw. And the general attitude fram…