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by simongr3dal 1248 days ago
I think one of the reasons everybody keeps producing content with massive background bokeh is because of digital video formats[1], having a blurry background and a relatively still subject in focus requires relatively little video bandwidth, so the video can still look good even with a kind of crummy 2-4 Mbps encoding.

1: edit, I guess it's mostly about having to stream it over the internet