I thought it was filled with water from a hurricane at first glance

They’re probably not allowed to modify the exterior at all and made the best of it for whatever reason

If that’s what you want to believe then I will not be the one to stop you :)

We are actively being held back by companies catering exclusively to the lowest common denominator.

If you’re just watching movies and tv I highly recommend just grabbing one of the streaming sites from the masterlist. Use a good ad blocker and you’re golden.

Yeah, obviously reactionary just means anything I personally disagree with. Duh.

Ah yeah I use a modded/patched version of the app (revanced) which is annoying to update so I’ve just been living with it lol

I’ve had this issue for a while now and it definitely has something to do with shorts, like it’s forcing vertical rendering somehow. I notice it’s something like a 50% chance that when I switch from shorts to watching normal videos that I will experience this bug. I’ve always just force stopped the app and picked whatever video I was watching back out of history. It is really annoying though.

Originally, it was being a child and not having any money of my own, and my mom getting out her wallet to enter card information on a website she had no previous knowledge of, for something she would never use personally, was a whole… thing that I can probably count on my hands the number of times it actually happened. So I stopped even asking and figured it out myself.

Edit: also, we had netflix but sometimes the shows I wanted to keep up with were still airing and I couldn’t wait.

Now, I just don’t think any company that would take my money in exchange for, generally temporary, access to media/software really deserves or needs my money all that much, and especially not more than I do. I also strongly resent that there is not a public and legal domain for things that are older than like 5 or 10 years and not actively being worked on.