I'm equally confused. Why would I want to take a perfectly good screenshot and then shrink it down so it fits within a square and fill >50% of the canvas pixels with a gradient background?

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Elfener 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I think this is some (new?) social media trend, my school started doing it too with their images on facebook. Half the image is just a border so the actual image is really low res. I have no idea why they do it though.

	▲	Hendrikto 6 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Some social media sites and apps like to cut off the sides to fit content onto different screen sizes and aspect ratios. I think adding a border is an attempt to preserve the essential parts of the images in those situations. It really should not be necessary, but alas modern/stupid problems require modern/stupid solutions.
	▲	jan_Sate 6 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		so it's for drawing attention on social media?

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jdsane 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

this is current way of showing design screenshots, as plain screenshots gets buried under and most of the time designer, or frontend devs generate their own workflow for handling this grunt work of beautifying their work. it's tool to remove that pain point.

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benjaminwootton 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Because it looks nice and makes it pop in a social media feed.