I did not know about the tranny cover. I won’t claim to know how much that actually affected sales / advertising. I do know how much attention trannies get here, though. It is, a lot, to say the least. Transfixed.
It’s not this one thread. I didn’t bring it up, I responded to a series of original posts about it. But it’s much more pervasive than that. The forum is transfixed.
I’m guessing there will be a revival in the not-to-distant future.
Apparently, Arena Group licensed the brand from Authentic Brands and the mass-layoff occurred after Arena group missed a payment to authentic.
They (presumably Arena) own several hotel/casinos and a recognizable clothing line under the Sports Illustrated name and are in talks about re-acquiring license to use the name from Authentic.
Either them or someone else.
The magazine might become nothing more than an Oprah Magazine like tie-in but the brand is still good and worth more alive than dead.
To be fair it is Western Journal, not exactly an unbiased source. IMHO the AI scandal was more of a hit to SI than one single issue. However SI as a print magazine has been teetering on closure for a long time.
Outside of graphic novels and my incessant collecting of British comics from the 60s, 70s and 80s I never buy physical media anymore. All my books, magazines, everything is digital and has been for years. I dont even buy Blu Rays anymore, used to havr a massive collection of movies. All in the cloud now.
No it did not, its audience moved on to accessing whatever it was SI was offering to other online equivalents. Whats the point of buying a weekly or monthly periodical that is already out of date by the time you get it.
SI like so many, failed because it stayed with an outdated delivery method and did very little to innovate.