Vertical videos are ruining social media, youtube, and other video media distribution platforms, they waste screen real estate, they make video compilations unwatchable, there are no viewing devices in the world, and there never has been that are designed to view vertical videos, all resolutions are primarily horizontal.

The solution, all manufactures of mobile devices need to program software to disable vertical video recording, this needs to be software based so it can be used on older devices, all smart devices have rotation sensors so it would be an easy thing to implement.

I'm calling out all the CEO's of the major manufactures of mobile devices, change this now, it needs to happen.

Tim Cook - Apple

Kim Ki Nam, Kim Hyun Suk, Koh Dong Jin - Samsung

Kenichiro Yoshida - Sony

Jo Seong-jin - LG

Sundar Pichai - Google

Cher Wang - HTC

Ren Zhengfei - Huawei

I don't know anyone who enjoys watching vertical video, it is not pleasing to anyone, it serves no purpose in this day and age, it is a relic of the past, when flip phones were a thing, but no longer do we need to suffer the indignity of watching someone try and film something that could only truly be captured horizontally in a vertical fashion, no longer will we cringe every time a friend tries to show us a video that makes us want to puke.