What magazines do teenage girls read now?

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There seems to be no modern equivalent of things like Jackie. I was looking for something for DD earlier when I got DS the Beano but it just seems to leap from childish to adult without the middle ground.

DD is 14.

They don't read magazines at all in my experience. My DD 13 is a keen reader, fiction, autobiography, science based books. I think social media has taken over from Magazines. Sadly 😔.

I don’t think there is an equivalent anymore. I’m in my early 20s and used to read magazines when I was a younger teenager but when I got to 15/16/17 and onwards, it’s all online and all about social media nowadays

I don't think magazines are all that popular really now. Everything is on the internet.

My dd (19, 16 and 12) don’t read magazines at all - although dd1 and dd3 will sometimes dig out a tatty pile of 1970s Judy comics to relax.

I still miss Jackie.

(Half a century later ...)

I miss “Position of the Fortnight” my friend at school cut them all out and stuck them in a scrapbook 🤣

None. They are all on Insta and Tiktok.

I loved just seventeen! They had fab freebies. Mini impulse, wide toothed comb etc. Ah happy days! It was a lovely time to be a teen.

More was a great magazine and J17. My friend loved Smash Hits but I couldn’t be bothered with all the boy band love.

Neither of mine read a magazine. J17 was my sex education!

I doubt they do at all tbh. Why pay for a magazine when there's all the pop culture, fashion and music (or whatever your interest) content you could ever want online?

They don't. They follow social media influencers, watch tiktok and youtube, and spend time on instagram and snapchat with friends.

I doubt they do unless it's something specialist like Empire or Top Gear type mags.
Ones aimed specifically at teens pretty much don't exist anymore.

I know... its social media all the way.. I think I just yearn for my teens and want to live them again through DD!!

J17 was brilliant I'd forgotten about More completely.. ah well tick tock it is

My dds are 13 and 16, no equivalent so far as I can see.

I also think this is quite sad.
I had an enormous appetite for magazines in my teens (mizz jackie sugar j17 etc etc).
They were SO informative!!
I remember just chilling with endless pots of tea and stacks of mags, learning everything from the problem pages...
I even loved the stacks of vintage ones around the house from my aunts and sisters, especially the old photostories . It felt like secret knowledge being passed down the generations .

Everything IS on the internet.
But whether they’ll find the right source of info when they’re curious about sex or periods is questionable. There are a zillion angles and rabbit holes online. And yes in an ideal world they’d ask their parents . But well they’re teens and they find that very cringey

Some of the magazines I read as a teenager like mizz and Sugar have gone under now .

It's sad that they don't seem to exist anymore. When I was a teen one of the highlights of my week was Mizz and Shout. Then when I was a bit older it was Sugar and Bliss.

I agree that teens will just get theirs celebrity gossip and life advice from the internet instead of a physical magazine - however graphic novels and comic books are a lot more popular now. Teens (including girls) will happily and proudly buy and read these but back in the Jackie/Mizz/Sugar era any girl seen reading comic books would be a 'nerd'.

On occasion I'll buy Vogue for dd14 because she likes to stick the pictures on her wall. She doesn't read a word of it though.

Sorry to be picky but More was technically never a 'teen' mag. It was aimed at 18 - 25 year olds.
Of course all 13 year olds read it....

I remember Sugar and Bliss! Getting a mag was a weekend treat for me.

Yeah, I think it's all online now - I can't imagine a teen magazine surviving these days.

Very sad to read this actually, I lived for Tuesdays and my magazine fix as a teen. Big, smash hits, more, bliss, mizz, sugar and my favourite, Just 17 and the freebies! Can't get them online! What a shame.