According to reports, Sports Illustrated has laid off nearly all their staff. The Arena Group reportedly sent out an email announcement to SI staff, informing them of the layoffs.
“We were notified by Authentic Brands Group (ABG) that the license under which the Arena Group operates the Sports Illustrated (SI) brand and SI related properties has been officially revoked by ABG,” the email read according to A.J. Perez with Front Office Sports. “As a result of this license revocation, we will be laying off staff that work on the SI brand.”
NEW: Sports Illustrated has reportedly laid off most, if not all of their staff.
Gee, I wonder what happened (This is a dude).
The Arena Group reportedly made the announcement in an email to SI staff.
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— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) January 19, 2024
Authentic Brands Group reportedly terminated The Arena Group’s license to publish Sports Illustrated after they apparently missed a $2.8 million payment.
Sports Illustrated has been in publication since August 16, 1954. So what went wrong? Could just be speculation here, but I am going to go out on a limb and say that they shot themselves in the foot when they completely ignored their consumer base and featured a man posing as a woman on their cover.
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How it Started ???? How it’s Going ???? pic.twitter.com/yfr5OrZ25L
— Alec Lace (@AlecLace) January 19, 2024
Last year, SI featured transgender pop singer Kim Petras on their cover. This year they are going under. Coincidence? I mean, what did they think would happen when they replace women with imposters like that?
This must be a mistake!! Say it ain’t so!
Men don’t want to look at men on their calendars either.
Couldn’t happen to a “nicer” bunch of almost guys. Go home and have a couple of Bud Lights.
To put a transgender on the front of Sports Illustrated! Unbelievable! What did they think would happen? Whoever made this decision is not reading the mood of the public, is no aware of what the public wants. Such stupidity has caused all of this! Why would the management change what has been working for years? As I said, stupidity!
Physics 101 was correct!!!! For every action there is a REACTION!!!!!
No one is looking at the very core of the problem at these failing woke companies such as SI and Bud light. These companies didn’t start out as woke but over the last couple of generations the stockholders thought it would be a good idea to hire a top tier propaganda University fed “Smart person” to run the companies. It is not that hard to see where ALL of our main problems in this country stems from now. It IS our communist ran college institutes that are churning out thousands of anti-American woke total Marxist morons to be the leading force in our media, corporations, political class and sports star athletes. What is even more maddening is watching conservative families send their son or daughter off to get “educated” only to have them turned into America hating ANTIFA members that think so crazily that you wonder where the f*@# did they get this insane thought process??? Well, when you pay thousands upon thousands of dollars for your kid to be indoctrinated into Marxism it is totally YOUR/OUR fault as a society for allowing it to happen in the first place!
You know it is a male, I can still see his Adam’s apple. Women don’t have that. What does the rest of him look like in a bathing suit, Getting boobs, long hair and a pretty face doesn’t make you a woman.
The knucklehead responsible for the trannie pix in SI, did it for personal satisfaction, not to promote the publication. The gay bars are full of this kind of numnuts.
Put landwhales and men in the Swimsuit edition, and whoops, you blew up your company.
Not One iota of Sympathy.