Why Horizontal Content is Best for Storytelling Online

So, I’ve consumed a bunch of vertical videos / vertical micro-dramas in the past few days and I really am not a fan…

Here’s why:

Thanks to gravity, our world exists in a horizontal plane & things have a horizontal relationship to each other. I walk and move horizontally on land. The house is BESIDE the tree, not above it. Almost all our movements are lateral. Almost all our scripts are written/read sideways. Basically, The world is almost entirely in a horizontal realm, so outside of a couple of limited use cases, the format of our content should also be horizontal.
Vertical video leaves significantly less ‘room’ for creating environment and context and focuses too much on individual performance. Storytelling needs context to be effective.
I have yet to see a storytelling format/style emerge which is intrinsic to vertical video.
Watching vertical video forces the eyes to converge on a much narrower band. The human horizontal field of view is much bigger than our vertical fov. Our eyes aren’t placed one on top of the other, but side by side.
As a business model, it disincentivises people watching content on their TVs/laptops/computers.

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