Is it just me? - magazines

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Celeb magazines used to be much more of a thing years ago in the early 2000s - think Heat/Closer/OK etc .. I used to read them much more then - now I think they're all just mindnumbingly boring. Anyone else ??

I think they have always been mind numbingly boring, I think you have probably got more interesting

They were always mind numbingly boring. But I still like looking at the pictures and the smell of the pages.

I think this is it! I used to read them too in my early twenties. Now I couldn't tell you who half the people are in them let alone care less what a magazine says about them. I think I stopped reading them when I realised that every single story was planted there by a PR type person. The news and celebrity gossip was much more fun back in the days media was allowed to just make stuff up.

You've simply moved on. I was never a fan.

They've always been boring.

I miss magazines though. I'd love to start reading more offline. My hands ache and my eyes sting from screen usage and typing etc. Flicking through a magazine sounds almost heavenly! Especially with a cuppa.

I wonder if there'll be a resurgence? I've just subscribed to a printed newspaper delivery!

Thank you !! I think the only vaguely interesting but was when you'd get celebs in it who wouldn't normally be in it iyswim - remember the 'Hoop of Horror' in Heat magazine? All very 2009!!

Social media has overtaken so much of their content. Back then you'd only see or hear from celebrities if they were featured in a magazine. Beauty influencers and haul videos as well, on that side of things, so if you're looking for a quick update more than a deep dive then it's hard to compete.

But I agree it's so nice to flip through a paper magazine! Hopefully plenty of paper magazines will keep going, love switching off screens for a bit.

Magazine are crap these days. I used to read cosmo and now it's just woke bullshit. Maybe it always was. Maybe they all were and they are just there for a period of your life.

Was an avid reader of Heat 20 odd years ago, however social media was the death of these sort of mags (there's a good documentary on C4 all about this).

I think what stood Heat apart from the rest was that the journalists were reasonably witty and celebs were happy to take the piss out of themselves for the mag.

I stopped buying them a couple of years ago. Way too expensive now and stupid when the headline was like 'EXCLUSIVE' and it's a photo of a Geordie shore cast member going into Londis or such like...

Aw I used to love a wee magazine. Apart from the Bunty when I was young I didn't read anything else until I started to get More and it was 55p lol. Never read Jackie etc my Sisters did. I wouldn't be able to tell you who any of the so called celebs are now. My Sister used to get the Woman, Woman's Own and Best and Bella every single week 🤣

They used to be a lot more fun because celebrities weren’t as precious as they are now, and understood that even the snarky magazine columns benefit them in the end.

Now media mention is so tightly controlled, look to cases like Rebel Wilson suing a magazines who published her age and yearbook photo, and winning!

And obviously anything negative written is now skinny/mum/pet/fashion shaming.

They are kinda pointless now because by the time a celeb has done something, had a photo taken of it, photo gone to the magazine, printed, distributed etc it's out of date and the celeb has done 100 more things.
I read a bit of celeb gossip once in a while but I read it online.
Printed media is too slow.
I am surprised these magazines still sell (plus the Take a Break style crap).
I am curious who actually buys them. The older generation still like their printed People's Friend or My Weekly but I am surprised if anyone under 45 still buys physical weekly magazines.

I only ever read these type of magazines in the doctors surgery or at the dentist, I'd never buy them as I thought they were a waste of money.

After Covid, none of the surgery waiting rooms have celeb magazines in them but I'm still not going to buy them.

I feel like the pandemic hastened their demise. When even celebrities couldn't go out, what was the point? And they all share their own doings on social media now, so interested fans can get the content straight from the celebrity.

I used to love a magazine before the internet and spent loads on them.

Now I've never heard of any of the "celebrities".

I have turned into my mum.