When Playboy announced Monday the once-groundbreaking 62-year-old nudie mag planned to, well, cut out the nudie, people had strong opinions. Well, mostly people just made jokes about reading it for the articles. But still, think about it. This is the publication that, until recently, gave entire generations of young boys and adolescents (and a decent amount of girls) their first glimpse at a bona fide pair of boobies for the first time. And while it definitely makes sense for Playboy moving forward as a company, it’s understandable for people to mourn the loss.
Of course, this being the internet, people are mourning the loss of Playboy in the most predictably hilarious fashion. Here’s some of the best tweets we’ve rounded up:
https://twitter.com/IanKenyonNFL/status/653793324415881216
https://twitter.com/Eddie_Schmidt/status/653793932959051776
https://twitter.com/ditzkoff/status/653762211018633216
Weird to live in a world where you have a better chance of seeing nudity on a tv show about dragons and zombies than in Playboy magazine.
— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) October 13, 2015
https://twitter.com/JesseDavidFox/status/653754515749998592
I was very sad to hear Playboy magazine will no longer show nudity once someone explained to me what a 'magazine' is
— Matt Oswalt (@MattOswaltVA) October 13, 2015
https://twitter.com/AndyMilonakis/status/653829806706987008
playboy: "apparently they just read it for the articles" [takes out all nude women]
every man on earth: "well this has back-fired massively"— k e i t h 🐤🥔 (@KeetPotato) October 13, 2015
Playboy schmayboy, let me know when The New Yorker does away with the diaeresis.
— James Urbaniak (@JamesUrbaniak) October 13, 2015
https://twitter.com/timcarvell/status/653744224970637312
OBC retires. Vick washed. Playboy quit publishing nudes. Nice to see my entire adolescence eviscerated in a single evening
— Will Brinson (@WillBrinson) October 13, 2015
https://twitter.com/gwatts77/status/653913372182904832
HOT BURN, PLAYBOY. pic.twitter.com/SbvU3rEJNX
— sarah sprague (@sarah_sprague) October 13, 2015
https://twitter.com/sepinwall/status/653747991736623108
Playboy doing away with nude women in their magazine? That’s like Taco Bell taking tacos off their menu.
— KYᄂΣ ΉΣBΣЯƬ (@kylehebert) October 13, 2015
Playboy? You mean the prop magazine used to show what bad kids were up to in marginally risque 80s movies?
— Kaleb Horton (@kalebhorton) October 13, 2015