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You collective head of knuckle.

Televisions have mostly crystalized on 16:9. Computer monitors are all the fuck over the place; 16:10 is common on laptops but surprisingly difficult to find in standalone monitors, gaming monitors start at 16:9 and only go wider, I believe mine is a 21:9? And then there's smart phones, which A. are often ultrawide, and B. are usually held in portrait mode.

Then there's media itself. Television recorded before ~2006 is often 4:3, with the exception of some shows like Babylon 5 which saw HDTV coming and filmed in widescreen that was cropped for 4:3. Modern television is made for 16:9. Movies? Most of them are made wider than 16:9, with some directors going even wider/vertically narrower to be more "cinematic" because their pay scales with how far up their own asses they are. Same thing happens on Youtube. Linus "Sebastian" Tech Tips was often in the habit of bitching about camera notches/holes in phone screens being in the way of content...while simultaneously mastering his own videos at an ultrawide aspect ratio, so that they're letterboxed on standard televisions and most computer monitors, and they extend to the edge of a phone screen where all the rounded corners and camera holes are. It's like he's bad at decisions or something.