Memento Mori
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Thanks! Glad you approve The video is from Gavin Bond's Vimeo channel. I'll do more from this later, just having a busy week. -
Oh, and a quick one for if @DaniL wants an avatar:
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I was looking forward to GIFing Daniela in SI swim, alas. Some from WSSA to hold us all over: (Will do more later, have a couple papers to finish editing.)
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Yeah. Imagine the number of hits an article like "GiGi Hadid* lashes out on Instagram over SI Swimsuit cover snub" would get. That said I'm just following your premise. I don't know how "models" feel about Ronda Rousey or would her hypothetical cover. *I just picked a name. Don't @ me.
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If they do go to the "legends" well again, it will only confirm my suspicions that SI's brain trust believes in the overblown fantasy of their own cultural relevance. As far as "plus size" models go, I am of two minds. I'm generally in favor of as diverse a presentation of beauty as possible when it comes to mainstream publications. But the problem is the very concept of plus size models is (rightly) met with derision from those bigger women I've seen comment on the issue. They (again, rightly) see Robyn Lawley as not representing some extreme that demands its own category, but being far closer in build to everyone else in the magazine than to themselves. Thus, they don't really achieve the goal of a more inclusive magazine, which makes SI's claim of inclusivity come off as an obnoxiously half-assed attempt to score points. But that's enough comment on rumor.
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Some Guess stuff posted to her Instagram
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I don't know why SI Swimsuit even bothers with the athletes anymore. ESPN the Magazine's Body Issue blows them out of the water in concept and execution. It's like some vestige of an attempt to claim "this is relevant to sports!" when that ship has long since sailed, nobody's buying it. That's not a slight on the athletes or their looks, it's just... like I said, a sorta vestigial afterthought.
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I made the gif. I can crop it to an avatar-size one: https://i.imgur.com/HZ1Bttv.gif All yours!
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Made some gifs of the polaroids instagram post
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Your point about their irrationality is taken, I just don't understand how exactly even perfect knowledge by the entire world of who is going to be in the magazine would negatively impact their revenue. They need to relax. They're managing a special issue of a magazine with pictures of women in bikinis, not state or even trade secrets. I can understand hiding the cover, for their talk show reveal tie-ins. Beyond that? The secrecy, combined with how needlessly they manipulate the entire Rookie voting process, gives me the impression there are producers in charge with delusions of grandeur. But that's just my read, I don't know any of these people. Most people I know don't have the slightest clue who most (if not all) of these models even are. Indeed, this is anecdotal but, the consensus among my friends--and indeed most people I follow on social media--is that SI's swimsuit issue is a bemusing relic of pre-internet pornography that is content-equivalent to Maxim, only with insufferable levels of pretension and baffling media relevance. Clearly I'm in this thread so that's not my view, but I can't imagine any of those people (nor indeed the Chive-like bro-sites that repost all the eventual images) give a shit about what SI's up to months in advance of release. So... who is their hype/pre-release media strategy actually for?
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