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re: Sports Illustrated laying off their entire staff
Posted on 1/19/24 at 2:37 pm to emoney
Posted on 1/19/24 at 2:37 pm to emoney
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Yep. I wanted them to become basically what The Athletic is now.
The Athletic is indeed the closest thing to SI pre 2000. Great writing and they didn't leap onto the 8 hour news cycle business model.
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Posted on 1/19/24 at 2:38 pm to Alt26
Going woke and then Unionized employees who fought the use of AI.
FAFO at its finest.
FAFO at its finest.
Posted on 1/19/24 at 2:44 pm to JetsetNuggs
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Go woke, go broke!!!!!!!!!
S.Illustrated was woke well before woke was a thing.
Posted on 1/19/24 at 2:46 pm to 1999
Whether magazines are a dying medium or not, did they really think putting fat chick's on the cover of their most popular edition was a winning strategy?
It doesn't take a wizard to know that shitty content on top of a dying product wouldn't last long.
It doesn't take a wizard to know that shitty content on top of a dying product wouldn't last long.
Posted on 1/19/24 at 2:53 pm to rintintin
Sad. Some damn fine writers and photographers made for a great product for over 50 years
Posted on 1/19/24 at 2:57 pm to FightinTigersDammit
This one was on the wall of the Sherwood Applebee's when I was a kid. Don't know why I remember that 
Posted on 1/19/24 at 3:04 pm to 1999
More than anything, it's just the result of the progression of technology. Magazines have become largely obsolete and no longer does SI have the market cornered on sports information. Social media has allowed anyone with an internet connection to disseminate information in real time. You don't have to wait for your SI in the mail to read about it.
One day ESPN is going to go by the wayside too. Not necessarily because of "woke" politics (that's just their last gasps to try to stay relevant), but because the sports leagues won't need them as a middle-man to produce/broadcast the games. All ESPN will have to try to stay alive is their original content...with is basically the sports talk shows they have now. But with podcasting so prevalent and easily available no one will really need to watch ESPN for their commentary.
One day ESPN is going to go by the wayside too. Not necessarily because of "woke" politics (that's just their last gasps to try to stay relevant), but because the sports leagues won't need them as a middle-man to produce/broadcast the games. All ESPN will have to try to stay alive is their original content...with is basically the sports talk shows they have now. But with podcasting so prevalent and easily available no one will really need to watch ESPN for their commentary.
Posted on 1/19/24 at 3:07 pm to LSUtwolves
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You’re right about that Burrow cover. I had it done on canvas, and it hangs in my den.
in your living room?!? are you in college or just white trash
After lengthy consideration, I have been unable to come up with any way that this is any of your business.
Posted on 1/19/24 at 3:09 pm to Longhorn Actual
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Go woke, go broke!!!!!!!!!1
Kidding.
Unless that's what happened.
What happened?
Chicks with dicks and fatties gracing their pages. An issue geared to red blooded, heterosexual males went woke.
Posted on 1/19/24 at 3:16 pm to Jrv2damac
One of those is not like the other.
Posted on 1/19/24 at 6:10 pm to 1999
Dongs and Bikini's DON'T mix!
Posted on 1/19/24 at 6:53 pm to 1999
Modern corporate culture makes me sick. Magazines run by pajeets with no grasp of the subject matter… we need a modern day Teddy Roosevelt to break up these conglomerates.
Posted on 1/19/24 at 6:56 pm to emoney
Their fate to pathetically die as a clickbait mill was sealed the day The Arena Group bought them.
Posted on 1/19/24 at 7:14 pm to TheWalrus
I haven’t had a real SI magazine in my hands since around 1990. When I grew up during the 1980’s, reading about Herschel Walker or sugar Ray Leonard was a yearly Christmas gift from SI. Nowadays, everyone has X or twitter or instant breaking news. I felt the sadness of not having Tiger Rag newspapers in the stores either.
Posted on 1/19/24 at 7:30 pm to Klingler7
Posted on 1/19/24 at 8:19 pm to danilo
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Did Playboy go broke too?
Playboy, like many "Men's Magazines" are now passe with the amount of porn at the end of your fingertips and the internet.
Why pay for something you can get for free in unlimited capacities.
Posted on 1/19/24 at 8:26 pm to gumbo2176
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Playboy, like many "Men's Magazines" are now passe with the amount of porn at the end of your fingertips and the internet.
Why pay for something you can get for free in unlimited capacities.
Which makes this thread's focus on the changing Swimsuit issue more hilarious. Find all the hottest models in the world and put them in a swimsuit issue, who gives a shite? Internet porn and Instagram made that shite irrelevant.
Posted on 1/19/24 at 9:38 pm to PrimeTime Money
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I feel like these stunts by brands like Sports Illustrated are done BECAUSE they’re failing… not the cause of it. It’s a desperation move.
I agree. Print media has been dying for some time. The move to put fatties and trans on covers and in the magazines wasn’t done while SI was taking in hordes of cash.
Posted on 1/20/24 at 8:18 am to Longhorn Actual
Did they go woke in any other way besides their swimsuit editions?
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