stackyFACTSWe spent billions developing high-resolution widescreen lenses just to crop it into a tiny box for aesthetics. The founders wanted to evoke nostalgic feelings of old-school instant cameras, forcing a generation to awkwardly squeeze all their friends into a 1:1 digital frame until the company finally relented in 2015.
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