The fact that most people are not bothered by vertical videos means that most people use phones and are ok with consuming everything on that narrow screen. I also know (maybe I am wrong but...) that phones are either iOS or Android, the rest are a small minority that are basically Android forks that still rely on Google. I also project that one cannot do more on a phone than consume stuff and scroll and scroll. Nothing wrong with using a phone for some basic tasks and not for that long, but I feel like these vertical videos tell a much bigger and important story here. It tells me that humans are cheap consumers of crappy stuff, and they don't mind to trade their attention and data to a handful of powerful companies.

Also trade their bloody comfort. I could not imagine 7 years ago to show to someone a vertical video and them to be: yeah, that's cool. They would be kicking my ass and calling me stupid for filming in such a way that you can't see anything.

Maybe I should make TROM II vertically. So I am hip.

Is it me that's crazy or the rest of the world? - Karl Pilkington. #tromlive