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| Trans-gender on cover of 2021 Swimsuit issue "Opening eyes, Speaking truths, Changing minds" |
Legacy Media giant Sports Illustrated laying off most of their staff.
You can only ignore the preferences of your paying customers for so long before they start ignoring you.
I have no glee in sharing this. I rode-the-avalanche while working for a domestic automaker. There are very few winners when a company implodes.
A very smart person learns by watching what happens to others.
Most of us have to experience pain once to learn a lesson.
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| Pirated image of the 2024 Swim Suit Issue cover model |
Stupid people must get kicked by the mule several times before they figure things out which end to respect.
Maybe those journalists can be trained to "code" or to shoot Javelin missiles at Ruskie tanks.
Of course...AI can also code and shoot missiles, so there is that.
ERJ - I saw this earlier as well.
ReplyDeleteI do not take particular glee (layoffs being far too close to home here), but was struck by the fact that likely most everyone involved in this layoff at some point "bought into" the new direction of Sports Illustrated, which implies they agreed to the change in direction which ultimately crashed subscriptions. I am sure they lapped up the adulation when they made "bold" choices. As with many media companies, they are finding out that the audience they want to write for is not the audience that will pay. Live by the sword, die by the sword.
Also of note, the owner states that someone will continue to operate Sport's Illustrated. If the market is not there, can they really say that?
Well, I suspect that the owners of the franchise cannot ask as much from the folks who want to use it.
DeleteSeems like I heard that SI was playing around with AI writers. That would reduce costs. I doubt that they would be any more inane or repetitive than the carbon-unit writers.
And while they are at it, the AI can create images of fantasy women for models of the swim-suits, saving a bundle on that end.
Perhaps more affluent readers can send in the biometric information and the AI can airbrush the reader into the idyllic tropical scenes standing between Ginger and MaryAnne.
The increasing amount of leftish politics also contributed, I think.
ReplyDeleteNo matter how you vote, you don't want politics with your sports.
Two days ago I got a new seed catalogue in the mail from a company I have dealt with for years. The picture of the guy on the cover was not the type of person I associate with. Clearly they have adopted a political/cultural position I do not want to do business with so it went in the trash and I shut off the email connection. I cannot see any rational reason for a seed company to do this and piss of a large portion of their customers. Insanity is exploding.---ken
ReplyDeleteWas that the catalog with the dude on the cover with the man-bun and the scraggly beard?
DeleteYup.--ken
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DeleteThis happened to me me a couple years ago, where a seed company I always had good service from. They inserted themselves in an issue that had nothing to do with gardening or seeds. I was done.
Delete2024 swim suit issue model is waaaay more womanthan any amn can handle....or would want to.
ReplyDeleteThese folks value pushing their message over doing their jobs - i.e. providing entertainment. Actions have consequences.
ReplyDeleteI'm just wondering what the demographics of the staff were, and are now.
ReplyDeleteI suspect you'll find the 'changes' occurred when the (mandated) quotas and preferences ensured that (fat unattractive and bitter) woke women caused the takeover of the business (after all, the only people who really do desperately want to pretend that fat unattractive women are the ideal are ... other fat unattractive women).
So, I expect there are going to be a lot of overweight female "journalists" looking for jobs now.
True freedom includes the right to do stupid things, even if doing so bankrupts you.
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