While I agree with the Farcaster strategic push for vertical video, I personally don't like filming vertically instead of horizontally, primarily because vertical video will not age well. It is a temporary format, a byproduct of computing on today's tall phone screens.

The human field of vision is not vertically oriented, which makes presenting information this way fundamentally inefficient. In a post-smartphone age—when computing shifts to headsets, holograms, or other future interfaces—I can assure you that vertical video will be relegated to the dustbin alongside DVDs and VHS. Once the technology that necessitated it fades, the format itself will quickly follow.

In fifteen years, vertical video will be an obsolete medium, nostalgically remembered by Millennials and Gen Z for all the social media brainrot they could zone out to.