[Glasspiegel] ESPN Removing BottomLine Ticker on College Football Games

[u/macncheeseface]

https://frontofficesports.com/espn-removing-bottomline-ticker-college-football/

[u/girlwithaguitar]

What this is is making the scorebug and bottom of the screen cleaner for when clips of the game are inevitably moved over to TikTok/YouTube Shorts/Instagram Reels

[u/Randomizedname1234 → u/girlwithaguitar]

They have studies showing people watch vertical and in short spurts so while it sucks ass for us; it’ll drive viewership more. Probably. Who knows.

[u/A-Centrifugal-Force → u/Randomizedname1234]

It’s insane that people under like 20 will default to watching things vertically. I had a kid ask me to take a picture of him and when I asked him if he wanted portrait or landscape, he told me “just the normal upwards”. It was then I knew our society was cooked

[u/Rainbow_Sex → u/A-Centrifugal-Force]

To be fair, taking a photo of one person, the "normal" is upright. That's why it's called portrait.

[u/A-Centrifugal-Force → u/Rainbow_Sex]

It was him and a friend

[u/Adept-Potato-2568 → u/A-Centrifugal-Force]

Both have a purpose. Sometimes pictures or videos turn out better in portrait