After these two links showed up in my stream I started to think that maybe he died so I checked Google news. No word of that.
That these two pieces showed up as they did it says a lot about how we are processing things in our age of social media.
https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/how-hugh-hefner-hijacked-mens-brains
Oops, more pieces about him. He did die. That’s why all the attention. http://www.russellmoore.com/2017/09/28/hugh-hefner-not-live-good-life/