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Vertical What?

Vertical What? explains vertical drama to people who have never watched one.

Duanju is Chinese for short drama. One minute to a minute and a half an episode, thirty to a hundred and twenty episodes a series, shot upright for a phone. An episode never ends. It breaks off, right where you need the next one.

Vertical What? is made with AI video tools. My voice is cloned with elevenlabs v4, Seedance 2.5 for video, fal.ai for lip_sync and my internal tools for orchestration

  1. Poster of Vertical What? Episode 1: Twist
    Ep. 1 Twist
  2. Poster of Vertical What? Episode 2: Toll
    Ep. 2 Toll
  3. Poster of Vertical What? Episode 3: Trope
    Ep. 3 Trope
  4. Poster of Vertical What? Episode 4: Reservoir
    Ep. 4 Reservoir
  5. Poster of Vertical What? Episode 5: Units
    Ep. 5 Units
  6. Poster of Vertical What? Episode 6: Who made it
    Ep. 6 Who made it
  7. Poster of Vertical What? Episode 7: Rhythm
    Ep. 7 Rhythm
  8. Poster of Vertical What? Episode 8: AI
    Ep. 8 AI
  9. Poster of Vertical What? Episode 9: Wallet
    Ep. 9 Wallet

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