Remember when the most exciting moment of your week was spotting the new issue of Tiger Beat on the newsstand? When you'd carefully pry open the staples to extract that Johnny Depp poster without damaging his perfect face? Nicole and Heather take us back to those glorious days when print magazines ruled our Gen X world.
This episode reveals the surprising history behind the publications that shaped our youth. Did you know 17 Magazine essentially invented the concept of the "teenage girl consumer" back in 1944? Before then, teen girls weren't even recognized as a distinct market! We explore how magazines like Tiger Beat mastered the formula of sensationalist headlines, celebrity photos, and those precious poster pullouts that decorated our bedroom walls.
The conversation meanders through personal favorites, from Time Magazine's Person of the Year selections throughout the 80s to the universal appeal of Reader's Digest. Remember those bite-sized articles and vocabulary quizzes? We reminisce about Mad Magazine's subversive humor, TV Guide's essential weekly listings, and the feminist revolution brought by Sassy in 1988. And who could forget Rolling Stone's evolution from music journalism to pop culture powerhouse?
Most nostalgic of all might be our shared memories of creating collages from magazine cutouts – that uniquely Gen X form of self-expression involving scissors, glue, and hours of careful curation. As Heather puts it, "We were vision boarding before vision boarding was a thing!" We're officially launching our campaign to make magazines – and collages – great again.
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