This Newspaper Tricked Millions

[@robocon2]

When fake news was fun.

[@Ireallyreallywishiwerenthere]

Wow you said what he said in the first 3 seconds. Good comment. Congratulations 🎉

[@Ireallyreallywishiwerenthere]

@mrsbeastfouryou. You can go walk fast off a structure of land that ends abruptly over a body of water

[@bellyfloppycat]

It still can be with enough commitment

[@Ithaca-vv5dy]

Make fake news great again!

[@sybill123ful]

i miss when fake news was like “bigfoot has an extra limb his girlfriend tells all” or “obama uses hallucinogenic mushrooms!” and not transvestigators, anti semites, and overly religious loons

[@headphonesdawg]

Seeing an oneyplays clip in a meatcanyon video is like getting a really nice soft, gooey desert after a nice hearty dinner

[@h3lix441]

str8 up

[@Squeleton2112]

This legit made me so happy lmao

[@unclechaw1894]

We need a slightly artistic with papa

[@jzeiss92]

*rubs belly and laughs*

[@cullenmason618]

Hrrrrmmmmm *rubs big belly and furrows brow* it's actually "dessert," hrrrmmmmm

[@roberthadley8745]

I miss Weekly World News. It was funny and fun to read. My grandmother was one of those people who believed to stories.

[@mechanoid2k]

@Joe-no7gs HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. You should host a late night show man.

[@sharonmiller7213]

I can't believe I never came past one of these

[@M0053yfate]

The only reason I still look at the tabloids, when I'm in line at the store, is searching desperately for WWN's triumphant return. I got every new issue I saw as a kid. The demise of WWN is definitely what lead to me consuming Info Wars later on 😢.

[@t.c.bramblett617]

Yeah it was clearly made to prey on the elderly lol, which is extremely sick and funny at the same time

[@DrBusiness9]

@@mechanoid2kgo outside

[@dylanfarnham5164]

I bought Weekly World News every chance I could as a pre-teen and teen. I absolutely loved how bizarre they were. I remember seeing that very first Bat Boy cover when I was little and it really stuck with me. I was creeped out ( I was young enough to think it was real) and utterly fascinated. As an adult I've even tossed around the idea of getting a Bat Boy tattoo 😂.

[@DwazeHoer]

The one that got me started was about an ever expanding whirlpool that was going to keep growing indefinitely. I didn't buy that issue but seeing it sparked a soon to be obsession.

[@bunster8129]

Get the tattoo! 100 great idea!!

[@k1tyysp1t]

get the tattoo

[@dylanfarnham5164]

@@DwazeHoer haha that sounds like something straight out of a Junji Ito story

[@Hugh-Man0006]

Oh man, thatd be fuckin awesome, if done by a talented portrait artist.

[@Cam._S]

I have a very vivid memory of me seeing the Bat Boy issue in Walmart and asking my dad if that was real, him saying “no”, and me still wondering as we walked out of the store.

[@harpiessnow]

" Is it real, papa? " " *No* " " _But what if?_ "

[@pandavelli8176]

My dad at least let me have a little mystery, he said “no, no, I’m pretty sure it’s fake… but you never know.”

[@Jadev9739]

I just imagine the side eye like “hmmm but that’s what they’d want me to believe”

[@deeriggs3319]

I remember too!

[@GrandDaddyCough]

You weren't a kid in 92'

[@atarian345]

Back in the day you would "fact check" by going to the library and submitting a written question to the librarians along with your phone number. They would research your question and call you back with an answer.

[@Slimchimrichalds]

That’s actually really dope. Librarians be putting in work and no one talks about it lol.

[@KissKissCthulhu]

​@@SlimchimrichaldsSo underappreciated too

[@jaythomas468]

Lol, as wholesome and nice as that sounds, I don’t believe you. Maybe it’s cuz I grew up in the inner city but if I submitted questions to my local library for them to research and get back to me with the answer, they’d be like, “you want me to do WHAT now?! GTFOH, kid.”

[@levismith8423]

​@jaythomas468 Yep, it didn't happen to you so it must be fake.

[@levismith8423]

​@@jaythomas468You're a joke

[@Aerobyte12]

3:39 the OneyPlays clip was very appreciated, thank you Papa Meat 🙏 ✨

[@knux511]

As a kid in the 90’s, I loved reading, and sci-fi/cryptids. I was about 9 or 10, and saw one of these at a grocery store in Wisconsin, and asked Dad if we could get it. He laughed, asked if I understood it was bullshit, and let me get it. I remember loving the adventures of Batboy, Sasquatch and Elvis. Looking back, it was just my folks’ way of getting me to read. Despite being bullshit, it helped me read and learn to sniff truth from fiction.

[@karanaki_3256]

Omg luckkkkyyyy my mom would never get it for me 😂

[@emghee2510]

We would sneak issues in our house by purchasing them from K-Mart. We spent countless sleepless nights, afraid that Bat Boy could be stalking us. 😢

[@JohnnytheYouKnowWhat]

I fucking live for your editor dude. Pay them well, you two as a duo create the funniest content. I don't think I've ever found a youtube channel I laugh harder at for every single video than yours, Meatcanyon. I watch every single video. Keep being you.

[@jacob9538]

I liked the weekly help column, Dear Dotty or whatever it was called. She would just completely tear apart the people writing in for help in their personal lives lol.

[@bloodyneptune]

I forgot about Dear Dotty until this moment. Oh man that really takes me back

[@biddrickbidmen4774]

Man, I'm surprised that Papa Meat was allowed to use an Oneyplays clip! Chris and Zach are notorious for demanding large sums of money, emeralds, and worms in exchange for using their voices, and clips from their shows.

[@doggochan]

I used a short clip of tomar using meth 20 seconds later I get a huge ass lawsuit with a unreasonable amount of not even usd but in rupees that equate to 1.3 billion dollars when I try to sue all 30 of his lawyers advised me saying "if you wanna counter sue do it in a ring any word out of your mouth tolmar with knock out multiple teeth get you surgery to have them back on and knock them out again". I've been threatened but this takes the cake.

[@subjecttochrist]

What happened to all the cereal box characters? That’s the story you should tell

[@solidkurt8784]

I had to send tomar my discarded foreskin because I used his voice clip for 3 seconds in a video.

[@SensiProductionzBlindDogVideos]

Umm....

[@mupetmower7807]

​@@doggochan wait.. WHAT?!?!!@?? Can you please elaborate further?

[@NotoriousEmu]

I was at a local used book store that Ive been going to for forever and the owner knows I like weird reads so he sometimes puts books aside and will often just throw them into my bag of book purchases as an added bonus. After one of my most recent trips, I was pleasantly surprised to open my bag and find a book called 'Bat Boy Lives! The Weekly World News Guide to Politics, Culture, Celebrities, Alien Abductions, and the Mutant Freaks That Shape Our World'. Its basically just a bunch of articles from WWN. Its been such a fun read.

[@veg4life.]

I wish u was my forbidden love notorious emu 😂😆😘

[@stephenlovesyou4151]

I OWN THAT BOOK I GOT IT AT A BARNS AND KNOBLES WHEN I WAS 12 YEARS OLD. (btw i am 29) best gift my parents ever bought me. Sorry for the caps i got so excited knowing i wasent the only one who owned this book Edit: WTF is worng with you @veg4life you got problems. God it would suck to be a woman. Constantly getting "cat called" just because your a woman

[@SouthernMender]

​@@veg4life.Bruh chill out 💀

[@t.c.bramblett617]

Damn that's the best cool hookup, to have a used bookstore that slips you free stuff

[@alipennington3764]

@@veg4life. H on M bro chill

[@ActuallyAKaiju]

My dad and I used to collect Weekly World News and we picked our very favorite stories and covers and put them all up on the wall of the bathroom. It was covered completely. I have very fond memories of the Weekly World News.

[@DankrumStar]

What a great idea! Glad this brought up a happy memory!

[@persephoneblack888]

"Elvis isn't dead, he just went home" is my favorite quote from MIB and it reminds me of all these headlines about Elvis. haha

[@megaton_a]

This video reminded me of something I had completely forgotten about; in my late teens/early 20's (late 90's/early 2000's) I had an apartment with my best friend, and the back of my bedroom door was a collage of the most outrageous/ridiculous/hilarious Weekly World News cutouts I could find. Batboy, Elvis, "The Devil's Face in This Random Explosion"... all the hits. Thanks, Hunter, for taking me back.

[@jzeiss92]

Papa Meat x OneyPlays crossover event confirmed?! I cant even imagine what kind of content your two channels could conjure up...

[@h3lix441]

Chris did the voice of Chaz in Meats Rugrats video. And Zach was Humpty Dumpty for papameat as well. They have a little connection already. But I hope more too come!

[@theresidentevilafter]

Omfg I can hear it now. I LOVE THIS CROSSOVER!

[@ChrisTheMadKing]

I heard that shit immediately LOL can’t hind that Irish boy from me

[@gabenstuff6793]

GOD PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE

[@Boneheaded0]

papa meat is the only person that has a chance to relinquish tomars iron grasp on the emeralds

[@sketchywav7741]

If meat canyon and oneyplays collabed I’d die happy. Imagine him, Chris ,tomar and Zach getting up to crazy shenanigans

[@luphinecoffy]

my 4 favourite boys all in one room

[@Satoonist]

they should do slightly artistic with him

[@MT-cn2uk]

Chris voiced Chaz in the meatcanyon rugrats video.

[@TonyRaccaroni]

that would be so entertaining

[@LeviathanSpeaks1469]

He also voiced Humpty Dumpty

[@edwardmartin7090]

I am nearly 40 now and when I was a little kid a friend of mine had the batboy one and he believed it and his crazy mom believed it too, which made me believe it until I was old enough to understand it was parody, but this took me back. And yeah, my friend's mom was a crazy person, she also thought wrestling was real.

[@Vespyr_]

Wdym wrestling is real. They're right there.

[@LewdsandComix]

Doesn't sound crazy, sounds slow lmao. That is the Phillip J Fry of the world.

[@Themadisraeli]

"Duck Hunter Shoots Angel" is also a terrific play written by mitch albom about a man working for a tabloid called the Weekly Worldly Globe (I think) who investigates that very story. It is extremely moving and funny and worth checking out.

[@subjectdelta44]

The wonders of being familiar with West Virginia & Lost World Caverns and seeing you drop this video (v cool). Im surprised the best they came up with for bat boy was "he ate bugs to survive" (irl, there was a giant pile of cattle/livestock corpses heaped under the only entrance to the cave - a small hole in the ground in a field far above the cave floor - bc a farmer had been using it to dispose of dead animals until he eventually started wondering why the hole hadn't filled up yet & sent people down to investigate. amateur cavers from a Virginia college had to rappel down into this gigantic decomposing flesh pile. You can still see some of the bones in there today. Coulda easily made something more shocking for the headline given that history)

[@meoweievuiart]

The instant I heard Zack's scream and then Chris's laugh, I passed away, thank you 💖💖

[@icu3869]

Oh Lord- R yew commenting from the AfTerliFe?!?!Dang what a perfecT story for STAR👻!!!

[@meoweievuiart]

@@icu3869 do..do you think they'd interview a lil oh ghost like me?!

[@OkayContent]

I can’t even tell you how much joy it gave me to hear an Oneyplays clip here

[@firstwaswhen]

Came looking to the comments for this I feel the same way

[@andrewmcmanus2353]

They need to do something together would be amazing!!!

[@ragnaros777]

As a native Floridian, it was a pleasure to see these magazines at the local grocery store while checking out when I was a kid. The covers were so absurd as well as the stories, as I got older I bought a few of them myself and would show them to my friends who would laugh at me for buying them. Ah, good times!

[@Enjoymentboy]

I remember vividly when the bat boy story came out. We used to get the Weekly World News all the time as a laugh and a buddy, Kevin, came over one night. One of my friends Andy said "hey Kevin. Have you seen the paper today? You won't believe it". Kevin said he hadn't and so Andy handed him the paper and that was it. Kevin was fully engrossed in it and he didn't engage with us for the rest of the night.

[@Deadhart72]

My dad, my brother, and I loved Weekly World News when I was a kid. We picked up every single issue. I remember reading an article in there saying that the world was going to end in a couple of years, and my young brain believed it. Stressed me out for months until I finally mentioned it to my dad and found out it’s not real. I miss the 90’s.

[@amylynn4201]

National enquirer mags were always a must-have on camping trips as a kid and vividly remember all the bat boy issues lol. They'll always make me think of my dad

[@Sunrie]

My grandmother loved these and how I was introduced. She did tell me they were "Just for fun" and it influenced my writing for troll fiction

[@medicineshroom1386]

I'm really enjoying the more consistent uploads. Between this channel, meat canyon, stretch and fade, cream crew and other podcasts you do, you've really been putting in some work.

[@KM20RA]

Stretch and fade?

[@KissKissCthulhu]

^same

[@vanillabatbones]

​@@KM20RApodcast

[@medicineshroom1386]

@@KM20RA I can't believe I forgot cream crew

[@Nick-ue7iw]

I LOVED weekly world news as a kid. It was always hilarious, my favorite was the cover that had the "alien cat found on international space station".

[@AKOVmusic]

You need to animate ‘Bigfoot refuses to go to rehab’ or ‘Bigfoot forced me to be his lover 😂😂😂

[@emselurniak]

Zach's screech and Chris' giggle always brings me such joy.

[@dreamakuma]

Weekly World News was so much fun to read as a teenager. Like lighthearted fun with some imaginative writing and outlandish ideas. The Double whammy of Heavy Metal and Weekly world News with some good pot and music was the best time.

[@levismith8423]

Good pot? Back then? Hahahahaha, ok

[@brainwashingdetergent4322]

I remember when the Batboy “news” story broke! I was a kid, and my dad would by this paper regularly. I knew it was fake even as a boy. We read it for the silliness that it was, and got a good laugh along the way.

[@Shino775]

I remember as a young teen going into some business office with my parents and on the table was a copy of weekly world news. I never thought copies would actually leave the store, let alone be in an office.

[@JoNoneya-n1e]

The Bat Boy musical really is great stuff. I loved it as a kid, so my mother took me to some theater in Minneapolis 380 miles from home to see it as a special gift one weekend. It was hilarious, because it was a surprise, so I had the soundtrack in the CD player for most of the drive there. And then we get there, and my poor mother had to listen to it all over again lmao. But I really loved it, and I still enjoy going back to listen from time to time some 15 years later.

[@Geospasmic]

Weirdly I was just looking into Bat Boy and that famous image, trying to figure out where it came from. It was made by a cartoonist named Dick Kulpa with really primitive photo editing software. I'm so impressed with what he accomplished with 1992 technology. It would be hard to do that now.

[@glennsieracki1066]

My favorite memories of World Weekly News was that I could read the front page in the time it took my grandma to write a check for groceries.

[@OneMadApple]

Without the Weekly World News, I never would have seen the eminently forgettable "Batboy: The Musical," for reasons that continue to escape me.

[@marthastewwart]

I bought a single edition of this magazine when i was 12. The issue was about the discovery of landsharks. And I was so terrified of the pictures. They photoshopped quite well feet to a great white and made you think they were in the woods

[@crabmorgan]

i remember at my elementary school in a backroom in the library they had these magazines lying around and one had something about a fish boy on the cover. the fact they were hidden away gave them this mythic quality to me

[@fullonsociopath]

Aside from the biggies that you covered, my two favorites were the farmers tackling the giant grasshopper, and the article that there was a child eating dinosaur, that was shaped like Barney. That impressive scientific journal was penned by the eminent paleontologist, Dr. Seymour Bones.

[@NERD-FROM-THE-SOUTH]

This is very nostalgic. I also stood at the grocery store as a 90s kid. Would see these newspapers 📰 and my imagination would run wild. But between fruit stripe gum and the toy out of the capsule machine those were the days. A time when we played outside and there wasn't anything based on likes and social media. Less depression and anxiety back then because of it. The internet truly has Screwed us up. Long live the good days.

[@grabble7605]

"there wasn't anything based on likes and social media." Yeah, except friends and peer pressure and literally _all the same stuff based on being liked and social_ just the same as today. Depression and anxiety existed too. And people play outside today too. Maybe you just don't notice because you're inside. Take off the nostalgia goggles and be less of a pretentious boomer, will ya.

[@TheFreddie306]

Shut up, man

[@ZekeofLilliput]

If we had the same amount of access to technology we currently have now in your "good old days", you guys wouldn't be as demented and ignorant right now. There was no such thing as a so-called " glory days". With the progression and technology we have now, we simply see the world for more of what it truly was. I can't blame you for having nostalgia, but understand that it's never a perfect perception of the past. I got beaten up a lot in the past, several times by family and strangers. I saw a dead toddler for the first time. My cousin got raped, and he hasn't been the same for years. I'm recovering addict. The early 2000s was awful. No good old days here. Your nostalgia works by ignoring people like me and covering cracks in the walls with earwax. Feel free to ignore this comment, just like what you always do.

[@NERD-FROM-THE-SOUTH]

@ZekeofLilliput sorry to hear all that. And believe me when I say I to like many have a past. But I don't publicly share everything. You wouldn't believe half of what I've been through and seen myself. I was simply going back to a simple time. I don't live in the past and neither should you. I'm 35 and have lost everything multiple times. Went through abuse. My father overdosed. My mother has been in and out of mental hospitals. List goes on. Life's not easy. But it's to short to live in the yesterday. It personally sounds like you are. Maybe get yourself some therapy if you need it. Definitely helps talking about it. But to strangers on the internet it's not exactly that helpful. And calling people ignorant, you don't even know or have a clue what they are dealing with is actually ignorant in itself. Not sure your generation nor do I know you but it's does sound like you need some guidance. Best of luck.

[@NERD-FROM-THE-SOUTH]

@grabble7605 boomer? If you say so. I'm 35 not 65. Your probably 18/19 right? Well don't blink you will be around this age soon enough. And have the generation behind you use slang to make jokes. It's all a meme to gen z. You can't even make a remark or share a story anywhere without somebody having something negative to say. But life isn't going to get any easier and don't worry you didn't hurt my feelings any. We all have to experience life. Sounds to me like you have alot more to experience.

[@The_Weekly_Infinite]

Watching MeatCanyon videos and hearing Papa Meat talk about parody magazines/cookie-fake tabloids now makes more sense than ever. I see where he gets some of his inspiration for his videos.

[@larindanomikos]

The Weekly World News was HILARIOUS! I remember buying a special edition copy, smoking a doob and laughing my ass off. The shocking thing to me was there were people who thought it was real. I guess they all became Qanoners.

[@johnfreeman2956]

@8:51 the ACL callout like he's a sports player is super funny. That's what I like about these stories: the level of detail lol, like they really go all the way with the lore haha

[@davidcantrell2568]

I used to love these magazines. They had a serialized story about a private eye that would travel across the world and deal with supernatural phenomena.

[@thesilentportrait]

I used to look forward to going to the store with my dad because he would get me some of these papers so I could use them for art inspiration I am so glad im not the only one who remembers these indistries

[@Voltanaut]

I love bat boy. Reminds me of the OneyPlays crew screaming, which is always nice.

[@73685]

*throws pot of boiling milk on bat boy*

[@TooFresh902]

That fact he even included a little bit of oney laughing at zack

[@charaznable9209]

I remember getting my mom to buy me these and being a kid with an overactive imagination I wanted to believe they were real even though everyone said it was bs. It was basically creepy pastas/conspiracy theories before they got popular on the internet.

[@shnooster]

Thanks for covering this man I have so many childhood memories standing in line at the grocery store and seeing this magazine, my Dad is a trippy guy so he probably bought a couple of them hahaha good times

[@mickyicky388]

i miss physical copies of things in general. there was something so special about buying a physical copy of a manga or a game, and now everythings online and it makes me so sad

[@MrFanservice]

kinda surprised that Bat Boy goes all the way back to '92. Mainly just cause I first heard of him from a grade school friend a decade + ago. Love this guy, but kid seemed to genuinely think Bat Boy was real. Don't think he ever showed the later, crazier stories. But I remember this kid literally having this big encyclopedia talking about Bat Boy and all these other cryptids. My first true dose of the "crazy pill"

[@amiakitten]

this is especially funny for me because i have a distinct memory as a child of seeing a black and white newspaper that talked about cats on mars and asking my mom about it. turns out it's weekly world news lmao

[@librarianontheloose]

I remember vividly that one about Satan in the clouds TERRIFYING me as a child.

[@PharaohPhil]

The thought of a stoic coal Miner father finding one of these while paying for gas and 100% believing it is so funny. His world, rocked

[@jaythomas468]

I remember seeing these Weekly World News publications while standing in the checkout line with my mom at the grocery store as a kid. They used to always confuse the crap outta me cuz I couldn’t quite comprehend how something could be printed and sold that was total bunk so I probably deferred to believing some of those articles since I just took them at face value.

[@joshuazane3210]

Writing for this publication sounds like possibly the most fun job ever.

[@locnar1]

As a kid I collected Weekly World News! Miss them so much.

[@TommygunTorres]

If you still had your collection I’d buy it from you lol

[@SkyRaat]

I swear I get symptoms of withdrawal if I go longer than a couple days without Papa Meat. Its like a little Christmas everytime I see a new video uploaded.

[@rubbles8190]

Fun fact! My grandfather was a jazz musician, and he was the first person to perform an elivis impersonation act in Las Vegas. Elvis actually came to see and hooked up with my grandfather's backup singer. She left with Elvis halfway through the show! He used to always talk about the time Elvis stole his backup singer 😂 rip pops.

[@brandonsavage5191]

I grew up in the 90s and I absolutely loved these magazines ❤❤❤ the older covers and stories were so good, nothing like it

[@QB2011]

I appreciate the Zach scream.

[@TooFresh902]

Also the little bit of oney laughing

[@Molech996]

I always love the topics you cover Papa Meat.Keep em coming.

[@wolfmerlot-hx3cr]

I remember as a kid sitting in line with my parents looking at these every time and pointing them out to them. They'd sadly tell me "no, you don't need that" haha. I think my dad bought it for me once just to cure my curiosity.

[@FriedaTheFowl]

Omg my dad bought it every week for toilet reading haha

[@oblivionfan345Tony]

I remember seeing one that said something along the lines of; "Sadam Hussein unleashes new secret weapon" and it was a grainy photo of a velocitaptor surrounded by dead US Soldiers

[@SundaySmiles1]

I remember their 'Spot Osama' puzzles from the early 2000 era, it was like where's Waldo but you had to find the 9/11 guy. And honestly, they put more effort into it than they really needed to, they got pretty challenging.

[@Snowball0341]

I remember seeing an issue of weekly world news on the shelf as an elementary school aged child. It was predicting the end of the world like later that year and I was secretly scared shitless until that day passed.

[@Hepheat75]

You should do a video on that radio play that scared hundreds of people into thinking that aliens were invading.

[@static_bolt]

You mean war of the worlds lmao it was a bit more then just some broadcast

[@stephenpmurphy591]

Yep, it was Orson Wells scaring the hell out some naive folks throughout the eastern seaboard. My grandfather was a kid on the family farm in rural Massachusetts a neighbor came a knocking about the Martians invasion. My great grandfather told him you eeject( Irish slang for moron) it's a radio play.

[@Captain.AmericaV1]

Apparently, people died from that War of the world's broadcast, which I'd suspect elderly from fear

[@Athicay]

Knowing that papa watches OneyPlays brought me unimaginable joy

[@princealigorna7468]

I miss the Weekly World News. I actually read that shit for awhile in the mid-00's, and I can distinctly recall articles about a sexy mummy being brought to life, Batboy being trained as an astronaut, Batboy dating one of the Bush girls, one of the mummified victims of the Franklin expedition being brought back to life, and fucking God talking to researchers on the ISS and saying he was abandoning us because we're a bunch of little shits, and the astronauts being so distraught about it that they were thinking about suicide Fun fact: There's a Batboy musical. It's extremely popular.

[@jackbotman]

Are we to assume the cut here 5:18 is when your parents barged into your studio like "HELLO HUNTER :3" Well cut by the way

[@PraiseMore]

Man I’ve been addicted to papa meats videos lately!!! So good and relaxing to listen to while going to bed!

[@zerentheunskilled]

I loved buying these back when I was young. I always knew they were fake, but that was part of the fun. I wanted to see what weird things they would come up with every week!

[@HandsomeDevil456]

I bought them a couple times as a kid and read them with my friends at school. The topics were so bizarre and fun.

[@zzzbbbooo]

I don't think anybody over the age of 10 believed the stories were real. "Space Monster Heading For Earth" was my particular favourite...

[@anthonydowney-uo2zo]

No there's always a weird aunt/uncle who believes.

[@Tomsda24]

Can someone please give me the name of the background music when it hits 12:30 in the video? I can't find the audio😢 can someone help me?

[@gohardinlife2]

Just gotta say I appreciate the effort with the thumbnails hunter

[@JonJonMorales]

Im so proud of you PapaMeat. You always keep us entertained. Quickly rising as one of my favoriye YTtubers. Thank you homie!

[@lilbunnyprincess]

I use to buy these magazines all the time as a kid! I loved all the weird pictures & little "stories" ❤

[@rob175kks]

That honestly must have been such a fun Newspaper to work for! Imagine just sitting round with your colleagues just coming up with a load of mad shit.

[@robyns5977]

I loved reading Weekly World News when we went to the grocery store. One of my favorite articles was about a "Werehouse". Which was killed by using silver spray paint.

[@willgreen3665]

I remember seeing these fake papers at the grocery store exactly like you said..

[@tomaidhmor]

I studied this in college! I took a whole class about conspiracy theories in US history, which somehow counted as a history credit. We talked about this, Sleepy Hollow, MKUltra, Operation Mindfuck, and SOOOOOO much more my god

[@tomaidhmor]

There was actually a newspaper in the 1830s that made a lot of Americans think bat people lived on the moon!

[@BugsyMac]

Mk ultra was real tho?

[@goosegirl941]

@@BugsyMacwas? Is.

[@bling-tut]

​@@BugsyMacThe conspiracy theory isnt that MKUltra was real. It was that it succeeded.

[@wotansbeserkr9198]

One of my Christmas gifts each year as a kid from my grandparents was a 12 month subscription to Weekly World News. I loved them!

[@JasonJrake]

I bought the copy in the thumbnail for my history professor in 2001 or 2002. It was joke because he collected newspaper a with front page war headlines. By the next class I had other professors coming up to me and asking where I got it. Apparently they took turns reading articles from it to each other in their break room, and it was popular as a 12 year old discovering mad magazine. They had no idea that there was a regular “parody” newspaper available at their local grocery stores. And they were too serious of people to ask any “real adults” where to get one.

[@swansong425]

A parody clip of like a VH1 "where are they now" style special of what Bat Boy is up to in 2024 could be GOLD!!!

[@shayan7516]

I was glad you showed Zach screaming as Batboy cause I only knew about him in Oneyplays

[@davidkrapensits4367]

Dude just recently i seen a newspaper headline that read "king Charles secret gay lover exposed" i was dying laughing dude

[@robcoguy6909]

As a kid my mom would get me these every week. The Sun was the colorized C grade version of The Weekly World News, it was more graphic, one story was about a family taxidermying their son with full color pics, or a scientist who implants his brain in a robot, really disturbing stuff at like 7 years old. They'd take stills from old 80s Italian horror movies and work them around some bizarre story they'd fabricate on the spot.

[@iank472]

Noone ever tells the tragic tale of the Bat Parents who had their beloved little boy kidnapped by evil spelunkers!

[@TwinklesTheChinchilla]

I'd rate "Bigfoot Kept Lumberjack As Love Slave" as their best cover. The look on that dude's face, lol.

[@ManifestTarot]

This reminds me of a publication we have in Romania. It’s a cross between a newspaper and a magazine called Formula Ace. It has articles about plants and plant remedies, some astrology and numerology. But also “reader stories” about odd supernatural encounters. As a kid I remember finding one that had this title on the first page: “Vampires are saying that if they aren’t give access to bloodbanks they WILL start feeding on their own!”. Next to the title there was an id photo of a lady with a perm and fangs. Pure gold!

[@daniellewillis2767]

Papa, the lumberjack bigfoot story was actually cobbled together from a few actual accounts of lumberjacks and/or male hikers being kidnapped by female sasquatch for breeding purposes. One man reported the she beast licked the skin off the soles of his feet and palms of his hands with her raspy tongue, to prevent him escaping from the rocky fissure high on the mountain where she kept him prisoner until mating season was over and she let him go

[@Doctor_Portly_64]

Some of the best jokes in this world is telling someone a very well made and funny lie and then getting to say "no" when they ask if it's true, i respect their vision and the amount of people they duped with funny bits

[@YeahTobi]

3:39 I regognice this scream and the laugh everywhere! Zack and Chris, god Blessuren em

[@jasonmaradiaga3971]

YES YES YES! The Psychicpebbles scream in a Papa Shmeat video! 3:39. Oh man life is goood 😂🙌🏽

[@willcole972]

And a solid Oney chuckle to follow

[@Link600900]

I can’t believe you failed to mention the infamous “page 2 girl”. That’s what I would always scope out when my mom was checking out at the grocery store.

[@YokosoOtaku]

My grandma had two neighbors living behind her that threw a billion copies of that paper out one day. I saw some and asked my dad about it. He told me it was a bunch of fake stuff and one of the neighbors was behind a fence nearby and started yelling at us about how it was real and we were idiots.

[@trelard]

I still have a few copies of this lying around somewhere. Weekly World News was fun in its day.

[@BronySnowfall]

The net is reading my mind... I was thinking of this magazine earlier today. Thanks for making a video on the best thing ever. This was such a fun read and I brought the new issues to school and all my friends loved how bumb it was.

[@StayMadNobodycares]

I had no Idea Weekly World News was back, I guess going through self checkouts everytime I must have missed it.