/kbin meta

They might be downvoting you because you're basically declaring the variable twice, with the same name, too. If someone knows better, though, please correct me.

Either of the following should work just as well:

var magazineString = 'kBiNmEta';
magazineString = magazineString.toLowerCase();

var magazineString = 'kBiNmEta'.toLowerCase();

Another reason some people may be upset is that they see it as downplaying the complexity of the issue, I suppose, but I'm not going to play psychic here or put words into peoples' mouths. One thing I'll say for certain is if there's anything I learned about any sort of work, is that it's always far more complicated than it sounds/looks like; applies especially well to software.

But don't you get discouraged! Learning to code yields great result even if you decide to not pursue the career with it for whatever reason - it's fun, it's rewarding, you can easily turn into something useful, you can contribute to open source, etc. There's always something.