Will the Millennials Save Playboy?

[ArthurTurner]

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/02/...X0Meuch9aNpH4EK_Y86BsCL6Rn5RinPDsUp_Zl8hC5kuk

Good story on the future of Playboy, which is no longer your father's magazine... or maybe even yours (when you were younger).

 

[~~whimsy~~]

“The water is meant to represent gender and sexual fluidity,” Mr. Singh said, seated beneath a 1988 Herb Ritts portrait of Cindy Crawford. The women who would pose in that water — their limbs wrapped around one another in a balletlike pose — were not simply models but activists. One uses performance art and digital media to share stories about the H.I.V. epidemic. Another is an underwater dancer who promotes ocean conservation. The third, a Belgian artist, recently filmed herself walking naked through a Hasidic neighborhood of Brooklyn during a sacred holiday. (An angry mob chased her out.)

“When they called me for this shoot, I thought there must be some kind of mistake,” Ed Freeman, the fine art photographer who created the cover image, later told me. “I hadn’t paid attention to Playboy for many years, since I was a kid. And I thought: ‘Wait, they’re hiring me to shoot the cover? Do they know I’m gay?’”

Sounds stupid so far.

The Hefners are gone, and so is the magazine’s short-lived ban on nudity — as well as virtually anyone on the staff over 35.

Isn't that illegal? I mean sure they can paint a bullshit reasoning but in the end seems like it can cause problems.

 

[dudman]

They certainly have some challenges staying relevant with today's technology and access to porn

 

[Little Red Wagon Repairman]

Since porn is free nudie mags will be hard to sell also.

 

[Rey C.]

Will the Millennials Save Playboy?

Only if Playboy starts listing the most popular safe spaces, for those times when you just need a good cry.

 

[~~whimsy~~]

Lol

Next issue.

These naked women are in a room with a single lamp. Protesting for the lack of safe spaces in public places.

 

[jonno2004]

Playboy still has a lot of fans, but plenty more competition than before

 

[John_8581]

This article is about Playboy magazine .. :eek: It's a dead media. Been dead for years. Close to fifteen years.

https://www.playboyplus.com/ -- Their on-line presence that Christie Hefner helped to establish, is thriving. Enough so, that Manwin / Mindgeek (Brazzers) doesn't manage the website anymore.

Playboy Enterprises took back control.

 

[Johan]

Magazines, of any kind, are a dying media

 

[~~whimsy~~]

No they aren't. Been hearing that for 20 years. Magazines still have a whole aisle dedicated to them in book stores, grocery stores and other market stores like walmart and shit. Just like how there are stores solely for books and greeting/holiday cards.

In this case with Playboy they are trying too hard with the subject matter and quite frankly showing ageism by firing people 35 years or older... so bunch of SJWs taking pics of naked women trying to push a monthly agenda.

 

[Danoof]

Honestly, PB lost a lot of it's appeal once Penthouse, Hustler and other such magazines entered the market. Sure, PB offered great articles and interviews, but for pure nudism,(I'm talking spread shots, of course), PB couldn't compete. The only thing they could do to out perform the harder mags was to feature a nude celeb, mostly quasi-celebrities, at that. I will always have fond memories of PB, but once you see your first spread pussy (I think I was 12?), there's no going back. Nowadays, with nudity a click away, and with the short attention span millennials have, I would say PB's days are numbered.

 

[Captaingault]

In a short word: NO.

Playboy was always about creating fantasies about the absolute perfect girl next door, yet if you see Hefner's years all you see are blondes with massive (and successfully done) implants that do not look like your next door neighbor unless you live in an upscale Beverly Hills type of place.

Let's face it, it is not bought for the article, the magazine might continue in print, but it lost the above fact, now it features trans models as playmates, I know that Hefner used to bring them to his parties, and a transgender model was featured in "7 Lives Xposed", but I do not want to be labeled as gay or homophobic if I am not attracted to a girl who used to be a dude.

Playboy is like Nokia in the cell phone business, they thought to be untouchable and failed to go with the stream, they paid the price, look at videos shot till late 2000's, their quality is terrible. Go and download a playmate's videos, abysmal is a euphemism, the same goes for Playboy TV's old shows, some of them have vanished (Beach House), some of them are missing episodes and in terrible and grainy quality.

If you do not care about your own legacy no one would.

 

[Mr. Daystar]

I don't see how, they can barely save themselves.

 

[meesterperfect]

When I was about 9 or 10 I found a Hustler mag under the boardwalk. I now believe this is why I never finished med school.

 

[Rane1071]

When I was about 9 or 10 I found a Hustler mag under the boardwalk. I now believe this is why I never finished med school.

:1orglaugh

 

[Monder]

I’ve been thinking that the whole “we’re getting rid of nudity” crap was a publicity stunt to get their name in the media.Hugh Hefner was the last reason for anyone in the media to do a story on Playboy and now he’s gone.It shows you that his kids don’t know what they’re doing.

 

[ArthurTurner]

Magazines, of any kind, are a dying media

Not true. What's dying are mass circulation, legacy titles. In the US that includes all the weekly, news-oriented magazines like Time and Newsweek. The 24-hour sports cycle has all but wiped out Sports Illustrated and ESPN The Magazine. An entire company (the old Time. Inc.) has disappeared, as have assorted other titles, like the old Playboy. But fashion, style, and culture magazines -- Vanity Fair, GQ, and Vogue, for example -- remain strong, as do thousands of niche titles. Like someone else has noted, walk into any supermarket, grocery store or train station news shop and you'll find hundreds of titles on the rack.

 

[ArthurTurner]

I’ve been thinking that the whole “we’re getting rid of nudity” crap was a publicity stunt to get their name in the media.Hugh Hefner was the last reason for anyone in the media to do a story on Playboy and now he’s gone.It shows you that his kids don’t know what they’re doing.

Well, as the story points out, the Hefners are no longer involved.

 

[Supafly]

I don't think that we will soon see an actual "death" f magazines in print form. The key, in my opinmion, is:

Quality, and inm the view on Playboy, top writers, and highly artistic photo work. Stay ahead of the game, be the example that defines the best possible. Produce magazines people keep and collect.