{"id":42107,"date":"2024-01-25T16:37:35","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T21:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=42107"},"modified":"2024-01-25T16:37:35","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T21:37:35","slug":"sports-illustrated-went-woke-and-is-now-broke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=42107","title":{"rendered":"Sports Illustrated went Woke and is now, Broke"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good day all. Sports Illustrated is a famous publication. It was first published in 1954 and is best known for the annual Swimsuit edition. Last week, it announced that it was laying off the entire staff and it looks like it\u2019s going to be shutting down.<\/p>\n

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Things haven\u2019t been going well for SI for the last 5 or so years. The Swimsuit edition, probably the best selling edition each year, started using models that, I\u2019m sorry to say, were flat out turnoffs for the target audience. Last week, SI\u2019s holding company The Arena Group, announced it was laying off pretty much everyone and had missed a licensing payment. Here are the details from the New York Post<\/b><\/a>:<\/p>\n

The future of iconic magazine Sports Illustrated looked dire Friday after the publisher announced mass layoffs. <\/b><\/p>\n

Oh I wouldn\u2019t say dire so much as stick the fork in, they\u2019re done.<\/p>\n

The Arena Group \u2014 which had been roiled by reports that the fabled magazine published AI-generated content \u2014 admitted to failing to make a $3.75 million quarterly licensing payment to Authentic Brands Group due this week. <\/b><\/p>\n

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That is a major issue. First, that the Arena Group didn\u2019t have the money to pay the quarterly fee basically means they are out of cash. They are broke. Flat busted. Then there are the reports that they\u2019ve been using Artificial Intelligence to write stories. (I\u2019m sure that made the actual writers real happy)<\/p>\n

As a result, the publicly-traded Arena announced Thursday it would make a \u201csignificant reduction\u201d in its workforce of more than 100 journalists. <\/b><\/p>\n

From what I\u2019ve heard, that \u201cSignificant reduction\u201d is basically everyone.<\/p>\n

SI\u2019s unionized workers received a memo Friday telling them \u201csome employees will be terminated immediately, and paid in lieu of the 60-day applicable notice period under the [union contract].\u201d <\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cEmployees with a last working day of today will be contacted by the People team soon. Other employees will be expected to work through the end of the notice period, and will receive additional information shortly,\u201d according to the memo obtained by The Post. <\/b><\/p>\n

Sports Illustrated has been having problems for a while now, just as most of the \u201cMain Stream Media\u201d has. They have gone from being published weekly to every two weeks and recently once a month. One of the reasons the magazine was published weekly was to cover the week\u2019s sporting news. Going to once a month and you have, depending on the sport, ignored a good chunk of the season. Sports junkies are and did start looking elsewhere for up to date news and more importantly, images.<\/p>\n

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An Arena spokesman added that the company is in talks with Authentic Brands about regaining the license.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cEven though the publishing license has been revoked we will continue to produce Sports Illustrated until this is resolved,\u201d the rep said. <\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cWe hope to be the company to take SI forward but if not, we are confident that someone will. If it is another business, we will support the transition so the legacy of Sports Illustrated doesn\u2019t suffer. <\/b><\/p>\n

Apparently, the Arena Group has the Swimsuit Edition all set to go, but without the licensing agreement, they can\u2019t publish anything. The actual owner of the name, Authentic Brands, is not interested in publishing the magazine. They are interested in keeping the brand going, (Because, licensing fees), but it doesn\u2019t look like the Arena Group is going to be the company to keep it going.<\/p>\n

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Now, as to why all this happened? Very simply, Sports Illustrated\u2019s management went all in on the \u201cWoke\/DEI\u201d agenda. This was doubly so with the annual Swimsuit edition. The main target of the annual Swimsuit edition is men. Real men, not soyboi man bun wearing wimps that apologize constantly for having an XY chromosome. This led to models who were overweight, seriously disfigured or were actually mentally ill men pretending to be women.<\/p>\n

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Then there was the use of AI to write stories. What made this even worse was the creation of fake journalists with AI generated images on the staff page. While using Artificial Intelligence has it\u2019s place, using it to manufacture articles can\u2019t have made the real writers all that happy when that story broke.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know if Sports Illustrated will return or just move over to the ash heap of history. I was never a subscriber, although I did get the Swim Suit edition. For the articles of course. However, when they started with the Woke agenda. I stopped buying it. The morons who made all these decisions may have so badly damaged the brand that it will never come back. So sad.<\/p>\n

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