Little girl plays with a giant fluffy Tibetan Mastiff (video, GIFs)

[waetherman]

Boy, that escalated quickly.

[L_Mariachi]

The Youtube player’s aspect ratio problem long predates Google’s acquisition.

[andy_hilmer]

They’ve rewritten it a few times since then, haven’t they? The widgets for changing the layout of the page, the HTML5 rewrite, etc. Vimeo doesn’t have the same problem. Google has owned YouTube for long enough that I’m happy to give them all the blame.

[rausantaella]

Girl should have been whitefish. Dog should have been black. Then we would have real life Maggie Dresden and Mouse the Slayerizer.

[anon27554371]

[howaboutthis]

“Format” here is irrelevant, they used what the camera had.

Orientation, OTOH, should be chosen to fit the subject.

K?

[Ranger]

‘Tibetan Mastiff Tolerates Playful Little Girl’ There, fixed it.

[joey_bladb]

If evolution had intended us to watch portrait mode videos we’d have evolved eyes on top of each other, not side by side. Or necks that swiveled. Or oh I don’t know! Good day, sir!