Originally Posted by
Capn Bloggs
When you're looking at the screen taking the shot/video it is, but when you look at the finished product, it is as though someone took a shot of you. That is, the orientation is correct. Take a selfie with some text on your shirt: it comes out correctly when you view the image.
It works that way on some phones but not others. You can easily find examples of reversed text in selfie videos on Facebook and YouTube.