Watch: Man clings to outside of moving New York subway, looks miserable

The rare, worthwhile use of vertical video format is dwarfed by the lazy, inappropriate application of that aspect ratio. Context, and other interesting and related aspects (such as bystanders’ reactions) are overwhelmingly likely to be located to either side of the action, and only rarely above or below it. These people using their phones to record in vertical video are generally not making artistic decisions, they’re just being lazy.

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