Is WIRED magazine difficult to understand?

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I admit that I was a huge fan of OMNI magazine back in the 1970s and 1980s. It had the right balance of fiction and news, science and fantasy. Since it stopped publication in 1995, I have occasionally read other magazines in the hope of finding one that resembled OMNI. In the last several years, I began to believe that WIRED magazine might be that substitution. So, several months ago, I was given a gift subscription by my brother who agreed with me about its similarity to OMNI.

In the first couple of issues, I was less than impressed with the content (a famous D.J. who was unknown to me and is branching out into something or other) and abjectly horrified with the graphic design of its pages. Articles, news reports, advertisements and way too many infographics seem to me to be disjointed with vanishing page numbers, headlines buried on a subsequent pages, gargantuan image captions and continuations that seem to vanish have supplanted the usual magazine format. Apparently, the way to read this magazine is page by page regardless of the confusion it causes.

Maybe the content is good, I wouldn't know. I haven't yet finished a single piece of WIRED writing. It has clearly switched from well-written science, technology and geek chic to a Frankensteinian cludge of images, fashion, celebrity chit-chat and cartoons.

Talk about sensory overload! Am I wrong?

I think Wired is written for hipsters. Still, I used to have a subscription and I liked it overall. My only gripe is that it's very male-centered. All the ads inside are for men's products, and sometimes the articles seem to assume the reader is a man, which I'm not.

Yep. That was the description I was trying to make. Hipster guys.

I also went from OMNI to WIRED and was dismayed by the design changes. It looks as though they are trying to make it look like a website that has been printed. The fonts and designs are better suited to web design. I don't have a subscription anymore. It just got too annoying.

Yeah, I have lost interest in Wired, it's no longer about tech and geeks and the future and such, but more like Maxim and Chris Hardwick wannabes, a lot of articles in the last year or so aren't even technical in a sense, I guess.