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<blockquote data-quote="KeepSeeing44" data-source="post: 26726" data-attributes="member: 7593">I'm right in the middle between the generation that still uses a computer and web browser to look at everything, and the kids that grew up with phones glued in their hands for everything.&nbsp;&nbsp; So my personal preference is to simply decide which orientation fits the subject matter best, and use it.&nbsp; I don't know if this thread is specifically referring to content on this site or not, but I will say that something like the windpants walking videos that several of us do, make more sense in portrait mode because the lower half of a person is portrait shaped unless laying down.&nbsp; That, and the vast majority of users are looking at it, on a portrait shaped phone.&nbsp; I'm trying to fill the screen with as much of the subject as possible, whichever orientation ends up getting that job done.Anyone who is not loving portrait stuff, will have social media to thank.&nbsp; Anyone under 35 now I'd say, is looking at everything in &quot;reel&quot; form on a phone.&nbsp; And all of the social media platforms (other than places like YouTube) are built around uploading and viewing stuff in the most common orientation of the phone (upright/portrait).TL;DR&nbsp; The kids are always the trendsetters in society. They've grown up in a portrait world, and could care less about turning their phone for every TikTok video they scroll through.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="KeepSeeing44, post: 26726, member: 7593"] I'm right in the middle between the generation that still uses a computer and web browser to look at everything, and the kids that grew up with phones glued in their hands for everything. So my personal preference is to simply decide which orientation fits the subject matter best, and use it. I don't know if this thread is specifically referring to content on this site or not, but I will say that something like the windpants walking videos that several of us do, make more sense in portrait mode because the lower half of a person is portrait shaped unless laying down. That, and the vast majority of users are looking at it, on a portrait shaped phone. I'm trying to fill the screen with as much of the subject as possible, whichever orientation ends up getting that job done. Anyone who is not loving portrait stuff, will have social media to thank. Anyone under 35 now I'd say, is looking at everything in "reel" form on a phone. And all of the social media platforms (other than places like YouTube) are built around uploading and viewing stuff in the most common orientation of the phone (upright/portrait). TL;DR The kids are always the trendsetters in society. They've grown up in a portrait world, and could care less about turning their phone for every TikTok video they scroll through. [/QUOTE]

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