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
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 😢.
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 😂.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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)
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.
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!
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.
"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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
"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.
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.
@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.
@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 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.
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.
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
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
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
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"
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
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.
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.
@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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
I think these were really ahead of their time in terms of the comedy they were trying to portray. I am someone who had parents misguided enough to actually let me read these regularly. And this was basically Meat Canyon and Joe Cappa for kids before anything even remotely like that existed. I grew up into your fan. One of my favourites was the Amoeba Boy stories. I'd like to think the majority of readers were people like myself who got the humor. It was like a less on-the-nose MAD, and had teeth that things like the comics sections of regular news print didn't have.
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.
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
God I _LOVED_ WWN! I have so many fond memories of going to my grandma's house and she'd have a new issue for me, and we would read it together and laugh. She's never been able to read well so I would read the articles to her and she loved the pictures. I even did a design project in college inspired by them, it really influenced by sense of humor.
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.
8:28 I remember as a teen flipping through the channels at night I stumble upon Sasquatch playing Pron. I only caught the last few minutes but Bigfoot hits it from the back over a picnic blanket and then after he finishes he pushes her off and quickly walks off. The girl scrambles Naked for a big ass camera where she takes the infamous “Bigfoot” photo we all know. If any of you know this video let me know lmao
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
There was a Dutch language version of WEEKLY WORLD NEWS published in the Netherlands back in the early '90s with the same lay-out, photos and stories (i.e. "Bigfoot was my lover", "Elvis seen in supermarket" and "Marilyn Monroe was a Russian spy") and printed on b&w newspaper. It was called NIEUWE (NEW) and instead of it being a weekly paper it only came out every 2 weeks. Alas, it never really found its audience and due to a lack of public interest and low sales was forced to cease publication altogether within a few years. I still own a few. 📰🤪
My co-worker read the elvis one where he is a secret agent, and to this day he still believes it with all his heart p.s. so glad I found your channel you bring some great laughs when surrounded by doom media
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.
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!
I had the magazine from the thumbnail, I think there was also a story in it about a woman and her hybrid love child with bigfoot. After they went defunct they kept a website alive for a while, I remember the story where they said Abe Lincoln was actually a woman.
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.
When I was a young kid, I was so incredibly afraid of Bat Boy that when I went grocery shopping with my mom I would close my eyes when we went to the cashier and my mom had to lead me out out of the store because I was so afraid of catching even a glimpse of that face
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.
So funy thing, I actually have read Weekly World News, mostly cause I thought they were hilarious! I used to get them whenever I was in the hospital to give myself some laughs. Lesser known fact, they always had a swimsuit spread in them, I guess to give SOMETHING of value along with the hiarious conspiracies?
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.
My grandparents called it the "funny" papers 😂 was always happy to have them around the breakfast table, get to check in on batboy/bigfoot stories over oatmeal 👍
man, i miss bat boy. when i was in highschool, we used to read tabloids all the time and bat boy was a staple. My all time favorite story was Popo Bawa though. sadly, the original Yahoo News article is long since gone, but someone writing for BBC rewrote the original article for them and then eventually it got onto wikipedia. if you aren't familiar, its worth a read for some late 90's tabloid nostalgia
When fake news was fun.
Wow you said what he said in the first 3 seconds. Good comment. Congratulations 🎉
@mrsbeastfouryou. You can go walk fast off a structure of land that ends abruptly over a body of water
It still can be with enough commitment
Make fake news great again!
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
Seeing an oneyplays clip in a meatcanyon video is like getting a really nice soft, gooey desert after a nice hearty dinner
str8 up
This legit made me so happy lmao
We need a slightly artistic with papa
*rubs belly and laughs*
Hrrrrmmmmm *rubs big belly and furrows brow* it's actually "dessert," hrrrmmmmm
I miss Weekly World News. It was funny and fun to read. My grandmother was one of those people who believed to stories.
@Joe-no7gs HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. You should host a late night show man.
I can't believe I never came past one of these
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 😢.
Yeah it was clearly made to prey on the elderly lol, which is extremely sick and funny at the same time
@@mechanoid2kgo outside
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 😂.
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.
Get the tattoo! 100 great idea!!
get the tattoo
@@DwazeHoer haha that sounds like something straight out of a Junji Ito story
Oh man, thatd be fuckin awesome, if done by a talented portrait artist.
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.
" Is it real, papa? "
" *No* "
" _But what if?_ "
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.”
I just imagine the side eye like “hmmm but that’s what they’d want me to believe”
I remember too!
You weren't a kid in 92'
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.
That’s actually really dope. Librarians be putting in work and no one talks about it lol.
@@SlimchimrichaldsSo underappreciated too
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.”
@jaythomas468 Yep, it didn't happen to you so it must be fake.
@@jaythomas468You're a joke
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.
Omg luckkkkyyyy my mom would never get it for me 😂
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. 😢
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.
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.
What happened to all the cereal box characters? That’s the story you should tell
I had to send tomar my discarded foreskin because I used his voice clip for 3 seconds in a video.
Umm....
@@doggochan wait.. WHAT?!?!!@?? Can you please elaborate further?
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.
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.
I forgot about Dear Dotty until this moment. Oh man that really takes me back
3:39 the OneyPlays clip was very appreciated, thank you Papa Meat 🙏 ✨
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.
I wish u was my forbidden love notorious emu 😂😆😘
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
@@veg4life.Bruh chill out 💀
Damn that's the best cool hookup, to have a used bookstore that slips you free stuff
@@veg4life. H on M bro chill
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.
Wdym wrestling is real. They're right there.
Doesn't sound crazy, sounds slow lmao. That is the Phillip J Fry of the world.
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)
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.
If meat canyon and oneyplays collabed I’d die happy. Imagine him, Chris ,tomar and Zach getting up to crazy shenanigans
my 4 favourite boys all in one room
they should do slightly artistic with him
Chris voiced Chaz in the meatcanyon rugrats video.
that would be so entertaining
He also voiced Humpty Dumpty
The instant I heard Zack's scream and then Chris's laugh, I passed away, thank you 💖💖
Oh Lord- R yew commenting from the AfTerliFe?!?!Dang what a perfecT story for STAR👻!!!
@@icu3869
do..do you think they'd interview a lil oh ghost like me?!
I can’t even tell you how much joy it gave me to hear an Oneyplays clip here
Came looking to the comments for this I feel the same way
They need to do something together would be amazing!!!
Papa Meat x OneyPlays crossover event confirmed?! I cant even imagine what kind of content your two channels could conjure up...
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!
Omfg I can hear it now. I LOVE THIS CROSSOVER!
I heard that shit immediately LOL can’t hind that Irish boy from me
GOD PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE
papa meat is the only person that has a chance to relinquish tomars iron grasp on the emeralds
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.
"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.
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.
What a great idea! Glad this brought up a happy memory!
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!
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.
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.
"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
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.
Good pot? Back then? Hahahahaha, ok
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.
Stretch and fade?
^same
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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.
"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.
Shut up, man
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.
@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.
@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 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.
Zach's screech and Chris' giggle always brings me such joy.
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.
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".
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
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
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
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
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"
I love bat boy. Reminds me of the OneyPlays crew screaming, which is always nice.
*throws pot of boiling milk on bat boy*
That fact he even included a little bit of oney laughing at zack
I grew up in the 90s and I absolutely loved these magazines ❤❤❤ the older covers and stories were so good, nothing like it
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
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.
Without the Weekly World News, I never would have seen the eminently forgettable "Batboy: The Musical," for reasons that continue to escape me.
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.
@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
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.
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
I remember vividly that one about Satan in the clouds TERRIFYING me as a child.
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.
Love this.
I hope you give a new studio tour, I loved the last one and your new setup looks sick.
I use to buy these magazines all the time as a kid! I loved all the weird pictures & little "stories" ❤
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.
I appreciate the Zach scream.
Also the little bit of oney laughing
As a kid I collected Weekly World News! Miss them so much.
If you still had your collection I’d buy it from you lol
Man I’ve been addicted to papa meats videos lately!!! So good and relaxing to listen to while going to bed!
I bought them a couple times as a kid and read them with my friends at school. The topics were so bizarre and fun.
I always love the topics you cover Papa Meat.Keep em coming.
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
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.
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.
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!
Writing for this publication sounds like possibly the most fun job ever.
You should do a video on that radio play that scared hundreds of people into thinking that aliens were invading.
You mean war of the worlds lmao it was a bit more then just some broadcast
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.
Apparently, people died from that War of the world's broadcast, which I'd suspect elderly from fear
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.
Omg my dad bought it every week for toilet reading haha
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!
I think these were really ahead of their time in terms of the comedy they were trying to portray. I am someone who had parents misguided enough to actually let me read these regularly. And this was basically Meat Canyon and Joe Cappa for kids before anything even remotely like that existed. I grew up into your fan.
One of my favourites was the Amoeba Boy stories. I'd like to think the majority of readers were people like myself who got the humor. It was like a less on-the-nose MAD, and had teeth that things like the comics sections of regular news print didn't have.
Just gotta say I appreciate the effort with the thumbnails hunter
Knowing that papa watches OneyPlays brought me unimaginable joy
Im so proud of you PapaMeat. You always keep us entertained. Quickly rising as one of my favoriye YTtubers. Thank you homie!
I was glad you showed Zach screaming as Batboy cause I only knew about him in Oneyplays
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.
I remember seeing these fake papers at the grocery store exactly like you said..
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
There was actually a newspaper in the 1830s that made a lot of Americans think bat people lived on the moon!
Mk ultra was real tho?
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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
God I _LOVED_ WWN! I have so many fond memories of going to my grandma's house and she'd have a new issue for me, and we would read it together and laugh. She's never been able to read well so I would read the articles to her and she loved the pictures.
I even did a design project in college inspired by them, it really influenced by sense of humor.
I'd rate "Bigfoot Kept Lumberjack As Love Slave" as their best cover. The look on that dude's face, lol.
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.
8:28 I remember as a teen flipping through the channels at night I stumble upon Sasquatch playing Pron.
I only caught the last few minutes but Bigfoot hits it from the back over a picnic blanket and then after he finishes he pushes her off and quickly walks off. The girl scrambles Naked for a big ass camera where she takes the infamous “Bigfoot” photo we all know. If any of you know this video let me know lmao
Now it's all main media sources that do this.. and our government. It's awesome.
I still have a few copies of this lying around somewhere. Weekly World News was fun in its day.
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
There was a Dutch language version of WEEKLY WORLD NEWS published in the Netherlands back in the early '90s with the same lay-out, photos and stories (i.e. "Bigfoot was my lover", "Elvis seen in supermarket" and "Marilyn Monroe was a Russian spy") and printed on b&w newspaper. It was called NIEUWE (NEW) and instead of it being a weekly paper it only came out every 2 weeks. Alas, it never really found its audience and due to a lack of public interest and low sales was forced to cease publication altogether within a few years. I still own a few. 📰🤪
My co-worker read the elvis one where he is a secret agent, and to this day he still believes it with all his heart
p.s. so glad I found your channel you bring some great laughs when surrounded by doom media
I had no Idea Weekly World News was back, I guess going through self checkouts everytime I must have missed it.
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.
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!
3:39 I regognice this scream and the laugh everywhere! Zack and Chris, god Blessuren em
Love the OneyPlays cameo, Zach's screaming is something else
I had the magazine from the thumbnail, I think there was also a story in it about a woman and her hybrid love child with bigfoot. After they went defunct they kept a website alive for a while, I remember the story where they said Abe Lincoln was actually a woman.
3:38 ZACH!!!!!
YES YES YES! The Psychicpebbles scream in a Papa Shmeat video! 3:39. Oh man life is goood 😂🙌🏽
And a solid Oney chuckle to follow
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.
I absolutely loved this paper.. So great and the BEST covers ever..
I feel like we just watched the origins of Meat Canyon's subject matter influences.
When I was a young kid, I was so incredibly afraid of Bat Boy that when I went grocery shopping with my mom I would close my eyes when we went to the cashier and my mom had to lead me out out of the store because I was so afraid of catching even a glimpse of that face
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.
So funy thing, I actually have read Weekly World News, mostly cause I thought they were hilarious! I used to get them whenever I was in the hospital to give myself some laughs.
Lesser known fact, they always had a swimsuit spread in them, I guess to give SOMETHING of value along with the hiarious conspiracies?
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.
My grandparents called it the "funny" papers 😂 was always happy to have them around the breakfast table, get to check in on batboy/bigfoot stories over oatmeal 👍
man, i miss bat boy. when i was in highschool, we used to read tabloids all the time and bat boy was a staple. My all time favorite story was Popo Bawa though. sadly, the original Yahoo News article is long since gone, but someone writing for BBC rewrote the original article for them and then eventually it got onto wikipedia. if you aren't familiar, its worth a read for some late 90's tabloid nostalgia
Dude just recently i seen a newspaper headline that read "king Charles secret gay lover exposed" i was dying laughing dude