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Hypebeast's top 10 neighbors span fashion brands, news publishers, a film studio, a comedian, and a fellow streetwear-adjacent magazine — no single category dominates, which is the defining structural fact here.
The shape is broad: scores run from 0.96 down to 0.91 with no sharp drop-off, and the neighbor set crosses subcategory lines freely. Highsnobiety leads at 0.96, the only website in the top 10 and the closest thing to a direct peer. KITH follows at 0.94 — a fashion brand, not a publication — and The FADER at 0.94 is the one other magazine in the set. After that, the subcategory mix opens up: AJ+ (news publisher, 0.93), A24 (film studio, 0.92), and Desus Nice (comedian, 0.92) all sit within a tight band. The Academy Awards (events and awards, 0.91), Urban Outfitters (fashion, 0.91), Writers of Color (blog, 0.91), and ZARA (fashion, 0.91) round out the ten.
Tallying subcategories: three fashion brands (KITH, Urban Outfitters, ZARA), one website, one magazine, one news publisher, one film studio, one comedian, one events-and-awards organization, and one blog. Hypebeast's own subcategory — Magazines — has exactly one other representative in the top 10 (The FADER). The audience shape is not defined by other magazines or even other streetwear-adjacent media; it is genuinely cross-category, pulling equally from fashion retail, film culture, news, and entertainment.
This breadth signals an audience whose attention is not siloed around any single content vertical.
