Vertical Video Syndrome
Vertical Video Syndrome (VVS) is a malicious practice of those that record video using an upright mobile phone as if taking a portrait photograph. As is said in the Urban Dictionary: "My left eye is not in the centre of my forehead, my right eye is not on the tip of my nose."[MSM 1]
Use in psyops
The use of VVS is common in psyops. It makes the viewer aware of "something" going on, but at the same time intended not to show too much.
- Parkland school shooting (2018)[MSM 2]
- Trabzon plane dangling (2018)[1]
- Las Vegas shooting (2017)
- London Bridge knife and van attack (2017)[2]
- Bastille Day Nice attack (2016)[3]
- São Paulo knife attack (2015)[CF 1]
- Thalys train attack (2015)[CF 2]