OT: Sports Illustrated dead
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Can't be that big of a market. It fast tracked the demise.
Chubby chasers are not the norm. To put them on the cover of a mag known for what is traditionally smoking hot chicks was proven idiotic.
Dudes into fat chicks are niche. Hit the dark web for that fetish.
Paper is absolute trash. Love to see it.
Maybe if they actually reported news properly and weren't state run media they wouldn't be failing so badly.
There's "fat" and then there's fat. Guys into super fat women are probably rare but not every guy likes rail thin women. Studies show that men like women a little thicker than the ideal.
I find you to be a negative person who roots for people and companies to fail. Not a declaration. Just an observation.
Perhaps I have the wrong impression.
Horrible people and companies doing deplorable things.. 100%.
Best post here. Very few businesses survive long term once the VCs and PE folks burden them with unrealistic profit.
The fake articles & AI generated content is happening in a lot of sites which are mostly click bait. There are sizable media pubs being run this way and there are “made for advertising” sites that are mostly outright fraud to advertisers.
I don’t see a return to quality journalism unless Google, Apple and Facebook are broken up, create a more equitable revenue share with publishers that employ human journalists, and put an end to ad fraud on their technology and platforms.
yep ( quick google search) Jordan with 50
Ali only had 40
Elle Macpherson holds the record for most swimsuit issue covers, with five.
The future is at independent places like Tablet, Substack, etc, where writers can get a subscription fee directly from readers. Not sure how that could work long term. I don't see most people paying $5/month for individual writers.
The Athletic has something good going, if you want to subscribe for $8/month. I'm paying $1/month and will let my subscription expire until they offer a similar deal. But they have very good (not great) content and decent writing.
I think, if you read more about it, they were pretty desperate at that point. There were flashing red lights all over the place and they tried one last ditch, outside the box effort to try to salvage it.
At that point, it couldn't. It was bleeding subscribers, they had lost most of their best writers, they were trying to run it bare bones but prop it up like it was 1980 still.
It was a last ditch hail mary attempt to save the magazine. Essentially, it was like a steward trying to bail out the Titanic with a bucket. SI was hosed as mismanagement for years had finally taken hold.
A quick read of the news/google/LinkedIn search will answer your question. For example Citibank is shedding 20K jobs by 2026. A lot of my clients have been doing layoffs (including a number of my main contacts). My company just realized they hired way too many people during Covid and are just not replacing the roles. You will see a mix of both & companies flattening structures. The economy is going back to pre-Covid ways.
I gave up on SI long ago and won't miss it. Of more interest to me is what's happening with Car and Driver since I've been a long time subscriber.
They went from 12 issues a year to 11 several years ago, not that big a deal. Last week they announced "big changes" that boil down to publishing 6 issues a year. Given that I have zero interest in SUVs, pickup trucks or cars costing a million $ or more, I think I'm done.
They went from 12 issues a year to 11 several years ago, not that big a deal. Last week they announced "big changes" that boil down to publishing 6 issues a year. Given that I have zero interest in SUVs, pickup trucks or cars costing a million $ or more, I think I'm done.
