Mad has been struggling for years.
(From 2001)

For Mad, a Reason to Worry; Struggling for Relevance in Sarcastic World

…But the magazine, still run by many of those who started out with Mr. Gaines, who died in 1992, remains wedded, for the most part, to familiar formulas.

Mr. Spiegelman said it now has an ”air of desperation and tiredness.”