That fake news tho

There's been so much talk about fake news lately. I think it's a fine time to think back on a time when fake news was a beautiful thing.

The Weekly World News. It was kind of on par the National Inquirer, as far as legitimacy is concerned, but even less real and way more fun.

My friend Mondia had her bathroom wallpapered in WWN covers. I wish I still had my own copies. I don't think we ever realized that fake news would go from night crawling bat children to electing a neonazi government. But, tbh, the story of the election could have been made up by the staff of WWN, only maybe it would have had more actual gates of hell and lizard people. There's probably an issue laying around in someone's basement that basically predicts 2016 as the rise of Hitler reincarnated or something.

Let's take a moment to reflect on the unappreciated creative genius that was the Weekly World News.

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Hm. Perhaps this was an issue in the election? Aliens were pissed? That would make sense, comparatively.

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Aaawww

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Uh uh.

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Okay. This actually looks like my cat who was named Fat Monkey. Yes, she was fat. She was not a circus sideshow, tyvm, WWN.

And finally, the cover etched in our memories, you can't make it go away...

The bat child.

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Okay go back up to the cat. Look in the lower left... A bat child Halloween mask. That means that somewhere out there someone owns that mask. I'll be heading to Ebay directly after posting.

Never forget the bat child. Long live the memory of Weekly World News.

'Twas a true original.