They Keep Saying Print Is Dead. I’m Sick of It.

Written By : Hannah Corbett

They keep saying print is dead.
Every time I hear it, I want to scream.

Meanwhile—have we all forgotten who we are? We are the generation of Pinterest boards and morning newsletters, of saving quotes we’ll never read again and curating aesthetics like it’s a full-time job. We are the generation that wants to be moved. That wants something to belong to. Something to feel a part of.

I mean, growing up I had every issue of J-14, Teen Beat, Cosmo Girl… What happened GOOD magazines?

And still—somehow—we act like paper has no place in our lives anymore?

Let me remind you of what we once had:
Magazines that made our hearts beat faster.
Covers that made you feel like you had to know what was inside.
Pages that smelled like perfume.
We’d tear them out and tape them to our walls like they were gospel.

Magazines used to be everything. They were how we found out who was dating who, what was trending next, where to go, what to wear, and—maybe most importantly—what to dream of. They didn’t just inform us. They invited us in.

Now we have TikTok.

And don’t get me wrong, I love it, im chronically online and not ashamed of it. But in between the doom scrolling and the drama, the constant ads and algorithm traps, I can't help but feel like we’ve lost something.

Something tactile.
Something sacred.
Something real.

What if we took all the noise out—cut the drama, ditched the filler, deleted the meaningless advertisements—and brought print back to life?

What if instead of 300 pages of sponsored content, there was something honest? Something that made you want to pick it up, flip through it slowly, underline the parts that felt like they were written just for you?

What if we had something filled with real stories, dreamy photos, exciting events, and inspiration that felt like a breath of fresh air—not a push to buy something?

What if print came back… but better?

And what if just maybe—
that something was coming this September?

Stay tuned.