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As a kid I would see these in the store at the Piggly Wiggly and was young enough to think some of these covers were real. Sadly, the last time it was ever sold in stores was August 2007
Stumpkiller
Ah. Trump’s morning Cabinet Breifings.
UltraLincoln
Man I miss this paper. Used to pick one up every so often for funsies, and to catch up on Batboy
Mcmaclassie
Part of me wishes that they were still going, but honestly they'd have the same problem that the Onion now has in that reality is so much more fucked up than anything they can come up with.
ruferto
The pre-onion? The sprout?
schrodingerscatfood
HurricaneShade
My 1st thought
TheMurderousCricket
Luckily, we now have Onion.
BreakingHeadlines
This was my all-time favorite Onion article. https://theonion.com/eiffel-tower-finally-completed-1828892259/
CallMeMcGyver
I remember the Weekly World News next to the checkout line at the grocery store... I always thought it was supposed to be satire, like Mad Magazine because my mother would laugh at the headlines and make jokes about them... I never really looked at it because the headlines seemed like dumb humor... Now we live in the world where all the idiots who believed it was real news voted for this timeline where reality takes a backseat to hallucinatory delusions. Not even Bat Boy can save us now.
jesuisgur
As a teen it was when I first figured that there were indeed humans who read it for 'the news' that I knew our species was doomed.
OregonComputerGuy
#1 how well does it use its hand?
thebonesofmyancestors
I bet The Deep knows the answer to that. :)
CanIGetSomeExtraSalt
#1 . wasn't me and you can't prove it
bikergeek6249
Remember "My America" by Ed Anger? That's now mainstream political philosophy.
theomni
I used to love WWN as a kid. I remember going on vacations to a campground in the early 90s and I'd bike into the nearby town and buy a copy and reading that since we didn't have TV there. I was like 10-12 at the time. This was back when a kid that age could just bike into town and it was no big deal.
Becker37
Back when you could tell real from fiction... Or could we?! https://media4.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1aXdqYmk5a3plNjE2Nm93MmNrOHV1NTMzNTlsNTJvcHZyNWkwejdicCZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/n6xe7RntgjFyo/200w.webp
StabbyMcMurder
This was always so fun to look at while waiting in line to check our. They're so dumb lol
OctaviaMinor
right! I miss seeing them as a kid
flordelasantillas
I swear these originated from the White House.
conklin5
Help us Bat Boy. You're our only hope.
lx469
he is probably a truck driver by now, or in jail for GTA
hemakesupforit
Where's the bat boy edition
GarrisonFjord
I need to print and frame a bunch of these. I wanna cover my wall with em.
fragglestckcar
We had a teacher in high school that if we brought in a weekly world news on Friday, he would waste the entire class period reading articles from it.
ps238principal
Imagine if this publication had been given access to AI slop generation.
Septcanmat
Imagine if AI had been trained exclusively on tabloid headlines.
CallMeMcGyver
I'm starting to feel it is...
erinaceus
experts reveal after five year study . . . ufos piloted by angels from god
dripstone
I miss reading these at my grandmothers house...
Hanshotfirst1138
Facts
tibris
my favorite is still, "Satan escapes from Hell!"
Omicron416
#8 Eccentrica Gallumbits, is that you?!?
Munchman347
Fox 'news' in print...
13579rocket
#8 Bill be like “Baby, you make me wish I had THREE hands!”
BreakingHeadlines
I was hoping to reconnect with Bat Boy, but I appreciate it just the same.
grundig79
Part of the charm of WWN was how low effort the whole thing was.
alexandremingatos5
I think the stuff they came up with were quite creative. Certainly more creative than todays mainstream movie industry
OctaviaMinor
And the absurdity of some of the covers. There was one about the moon blowing up in 6 months or something and it scared the hell out of me when I was 9 cause my mom just casually agreed with it
AyatollahBahloni
#6 This record was smashed by Charlie Kirk.
aFukingGoatOutside
He beat that record by a long shot
Darkwell
Briefly
sharK11
ha
3nd3rwiggin
Why they aimed for the neck.
thatwoodguy
Neck is a bigger Target than his face
ElbowDeepInARobot
I was gonna say exactly that
InitHello
Maybe this was his mother?
tibris
I was gonna say that
CJAW
#9
Darkwell
"Cuz that's how I get my tail!" *flute solo*
lx469
i seem to understand why this show is called a plagiate.. nods towards Futurama (when they discover the ancient ruins of Atlanta)
CJAW