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It is interesting that people are assuming I’ve been pulled by the high-end ultra-produced vanity zine.

Nope, it’s the low-end mass market high-impact kind. As a former print industry guy I appreciate the high end for the technical virtuosity, but the cultural power of magazines was always the lower-end

I typically am a knee-jerk countersignaler so it’s tempting for me to make fun of the high end, but I think the two segments have a haute couture/pret-a-porter type relationship

I still have multiple physical magazine subscriptions. There is something unique about reading a whole magazine that is different from reading articles online and which captures a moment and a point of view.