diff --git a/Gemfile b/Gemfile
index 12cca9a46..ad36d64a2 100644
--- a/Gemfile
+++ b/Gemfile
@@ -107,7 +107,6 @@ gem "sprockets", "~> 4.0" # Sprockets is a Rack-based asset packaging system
 gem "staccato", "~> 0.5" # Ruby Google Analytics Measurement
 gem "sterile", "~> 1.0" # Transliterate Unicode and Latin1 text to 7-bit ASCII for URLs
 gem "store_attribute", "~> 0.9.3" # ActiveRecord extension which adds typecasting to store accessors.
-gem "storext", "~> 3.3" # Add type-casting and other features on top of ActiveRecord::Store.store_accessor
 gem "stripe", "~> 5.42" # Ruby library for the Stripe API
 gem "strong_migrations", "~> 0.7" # Catch unsafe migrations
 gem "twitter", "~> 7.0" # A Ruby interface to the Twitter API
diff --git a/Gemfile.lock b/Gemfile.lock
index 125def559..d6474b47e 100644
--- a/Gemfile.lock
+++ b/Gemfile.lock
@@ -93,10 +93,6 @@ GEM
     aws-sigv4 (1.2.3)
       aws-eventstream (~> 1, >= 1.0.2)
     aws_cf_signer (0.1.3)
-    axiom-types (0.1.1)
-      descendants_tracker (~> 0.0.4)
-      ice_nine (~> 0.11.0)
-      thread_safe (~> 0.3, >= 0.3.1)
     backport (1.2.0)
     bcrypt (3.1.16)
     benchmark (0.2.0)
@@ -161,8 +157,6 @@ GEM
       aws_cf_signer
       rest-client (>= 2.0.0)
     coderay (1.1.3)
-    coercible (1.0.0)
-      descendants_tracker (~> 0.0.1)
     coffee-rails (5.0.0)
       coffee-script (>= 2.2.0)
       railties (>= 5.2.0)
@@ -202,8 +196,6 @@ GEM
       rake (> 10, < 14)
       ruby-statistics (>= 2.1)
       thor (>= 0.19, < 2)
-    descendants_tracker (0.0.4)
-      thread_safe (~> 0.3, >= 0.3.1)
     device_detector (1.0.6)
     devise (4.8.1)
       bcrypt (~> 3.0)
@@ -402,7 +394,6 @@ GEM
       rails-i18n
       rainbow (>= 2.2.2, < 4.0)
       terminal-table (>= 1.5.1)
-    ice_nine (0.11.2)
     image_processing (1.12.1)
       mini_magick (>= 4.9.5, < 5)
       ruby-vips (>= 2.0.17, < 3)
@@ -820,9 +811,6 @@ GEM
       nokogiri (>= 1.11.7)
     store_attribute (0.9.3)
       activerecord (>= 5.0)
-    storext (3.3.0)
-      activerecord (>= 4.0, < 6.2)
-      virtus
     stripe (5.42.0)
     stripe-ruby-mock (3.1.0.rc3)
       dante (>= 0.2.0)
@@ -867,11 +855,6 @@ GEM
     view_component (2.47.0)
       activesupport (>= 5.0.0, < 8.0)
       method_source (~> 1.0)
-    virtus (1.0.5)
-      axiom-types (~> 0.1)
-      coercible (~> 1.0)
-      descendants_tracker (~> 0.0, >= 0.0.3)
-      equalizer (~> 0.0, >= 0.0.9)
     warden (1.2.9)
       rack (>= 2.0.9)
     wcag_color_contrast (0.1.0)
@@ -1050,7 +1033,6 @@ DEPENDENCIES
   stackprof (~> 0.2)
   sterile (~> 1.0)
   store_attribute (~> 0.9.3)
-  storext (~> 3.3)
   stripe (~> 5.42)
   stripe-ruby-mock (= 3.1.0.rc3)
   strong_migrations (~> 0.7)
diff --git a/app/models/article.rb b/app/models/article.rb
index 170790af6..c6022a644 100644
--- a/app/models/article.rb
+++ b/app/models/article.rb
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 class Article < ApplicationRecord
   include CloudinaryHelper
   include ActionView::Helpers
-  include Storext.model
   include Reactable
   include UserSubscriptionSourceable
   include PgSearch::Model
diff --git a/app/models/user.rb b/app/models/user.rb
index 6f00691ba..fd5c6323a 100644
--- a/app/models/user.rb
+++ b/app/models/user.rb
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ class User < ApplicationRecord
   rolify
 
   include CloudinaryHelper
-  include Storext.model
 
   # NOTE: we are using an inline module to keep profile related things together.
   concerning :Profiles do
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