Our target audience is 18~41. You must be 42
No. I am well within the range of 18-41.
Christ. So now I'm breaking the internet laws and the magazine will fail because of my forum avatar? Some of us have bold and hilarious personalities. Get used to it.
Not exactly. Just in case it's not very clear, this doesn't represent your stated target age range very well. "Suck my dick" is funny to boys in the age range of 9-13 years old. It loses its charm quickly thereafter.
I agree. I can totally omit that. Vicente, one of our staff had already mentioned that. "Is it really necessary Matthew?" and I said "No, but the people who get it will think it's funny and the people who don't, won't have an opinion".
That said, have you ever seen "Maxim magazine"? I think they owe the majority of their success to bold and subtle humor as well. If you'd like to recommend other bold and subtle ways to be humorous than just "ST+FU", I am most certainly all ears. If you're arguing that humor shouldn't be a part of the magazine, good luck with that, no one who has supported the magazine so far agrees with you.
Ahah, right, because nobody over the age of 17 knows what STFU stands for?
Don't get me wrong, I'm not against profanity. But putting STFU there in and of itself isn't really funny. Unless, of course, you're 12 years old, then cussing is funny all by itself because it's like, revolting against your parents or something. Or pretending you're all grown up now, because of course, using naughty words is such a grown up thing to do.
If you're going to make a joke that references the word FUCK (hereinafter referred to as the F word), then by all means, go ahead. But make it classy. It just sounds like the punch line of your joke is something like, "we're going to put the F word on this page in plain sight, and all the old grownups who went to school without cellphones will have not a clue about the internet acronyms of the day and aren't going to have any idea that it's really the F word in their face". Which, as I said, isn't really funny unless you're twelve.
...do you know what someone told me?
"Matthew, don't you dare step down. You give this magazine personality."
They may very well be right. They are probably referring to other things you are doing that are clearly neat, and not the potty humor.
P.S. Mike, do you know why my avatar has a bus saying "suck my dick"?
Because you are a kid still in school?
Because I enjoy making people laugh. If you want a super-serious magazine that is completely boring and devoid of any life, go start one with Bruce Wagner.
I am sure people will laugh so hard they will snort their chocolate milk all over the cafeteria floor. Your magazine doesn't have to be dry, it's just, if you want to appeal to 18-41 year olds, then you should consider the advice of 18-41 year olds.