Put your mag racks out, ladies and gentlemen. The nation just lost an icon.
Perennial proprietor of stuck-together pages, fuel for many an adolescent wank-bank, and contributor to the literary lexicon of about as much weight as a picture of itself, Zoo Magazine has sadly sprung its last unwanted after-school bus ride boner.
The magazine’s parent company Bauer Media today announced that the skin rag bought by those too sober to buy a proper porno from a 7-Eleven rack at 2am would cease operations, citing “tough retail conditions” as the reasoning behind the binning.
BREAKING: Bauer Media has closed men’s magazine Zoo Weekly. The German publisher has blamed “tough retail conditions” pic.twitter.com/wvz1jnIWBV
— Darren Davidson (@darrendavidson) September 17, 2015
The beginning of the end for the publication came at the start of August, when Coles announced the deletion of the magazine from its line of stock, following a campaign spearheaded by a 20-year old employee who asserted that selling the publication contributed to an unsafe workplace that needlessly propagated rape culture.
Farewell, you weird publication whose continued existence as a printed product in the year of our lord Two Thousand And Fifteen remained as baffling as anything else in the industry.
I’ll forever remember you fondly as that one magazine who published the face and stupid Tweets of a certain comedian/writer person without ever directly letting them know you did it; and who would’ve gone totally unaware of it had a mate in Tasmania not decided to visit his plumber relative in the country that specific month and visit the loo whilst he was there.
Srsly tho. Shower beers fix EVERYTHING and there has to be science behind it.
