UnNews:Rivers Cuomo fed up with fake Weezer news
| Democracy Dies with Dignity | ✪ | UnNews | ✪ | Tuesday, March 17, 2026, 13:17:59 (UTC) |
| Rivers Cuomo fed up with fake Weezer news | 
|
27 November 2022
.jpg){kind=link}
LOS ANGELES, California -- The frontman of the band Weezer has publicly declared his dissatisfaction with comedy websites running fake articles on him and his music.
Rivers Cuomo, 52, took to Discord and posted a message sure to be read by his half-dozen-or-so followers. "I am sick and tired of sites like The Onion making blatantly false, and dare I say, unfunny news about me and the band", Cuomo's post stated.
Cuomo has issued takedown notices to satire outlets The Hard Times, Robot Butt, and even The Onion. In response to a 2019 article published by The Hard Times, Cuomo tweeted:
 |
| Just read a news story about how someone travels back in time and, instead of warning #NYC that planes will fly into buildings, warns them that #Weezer will "suck". But time travel isn't even plausible! #FakeNews! |
Later that day, Cuomo tweeted again after reading a piece on this year's SZNZ project, with one album released each season, reporting that in 2023, Weezer will release 365 albums, one per day.
|
| Not a bad idea, just impractical. |
The imminent release of SZNZ: Winter continues the countdown to Cuomo's promised retirement at 60, avoiding drawing it out as when Paul McCartney or Ringo Starr kept pairing promising tunes with increasingly tone-deaf vocals.
The fifth Weezer, Cuomo's wife, said her husband's reaction to satire is because he doesn't want to be remembered as a meme. Unfortunately, that has already happened, with songs like "Where's My Sex?", "Hash Pipe", and "Beverly Hills", showcasing signature Cuomo jocularity that fatefully convinced joke-writers their work would be received with laughter.
"All I want is for them to just not make up fake quotes about things I say," Cuomo stated. "Like, I'm fine with simple jokes, but when you write an entire fictional, multi-paragraph article, complete with a picture and fake tweets, then you have to ask yourself, has the joke gone too far?"
Sources[edit]
- Ben Friedman "Man Time Travels to September 10, 2001 to Warn Everyone that Weezer Sucks Now". The Hard Times, June 17, 2019
- Nick San Miguel "Weezer Plans to Release 365 Albums in 2023". Robot Butt, October 14, 2022
- "Disgruntled Bandmates Worried Rivers Cuomo’s Wife Becoming The Fifth Weezer". The Onion, June 1, 2015