Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-32185007-20180525085017/@comment-1038387-20190116060830

The thought behind it is that you can read the text without having to tilt your head from left to right. You can see the entire sentence in one focus.

And that's a bad example because it has lyrics; most of the emptyness and "wasted space" is voluntarily.

Worthless junk is less worthless to a casual reader than the ton of links on the Wikipedia siderail that an average reader will never, ever use.