BETHEL PARK NATIVE’S HOME VIDEOS BECOME YOUTUBE SENSATION
Paul Petroskey - also known as “Weird Paul” - had been waiting for something like YouTube for decades.
Petroskey considers himself the “Original Vlogger.”The 47-year-old Bethel Park native had hours of video tapes that he recorded in the ’80s and ’90s that included homemade music videos starring his family, a review of McDonald’s breakfast items, homemade award shows and whatever else the teenager found interesting.
“As soon as YouTube came about, I said, ’This would be great. We didn’t have this when I was making these back in the ’80s,’” Petroskey says.
“I wanted to put it on YouTube because I knew it would be something interesting for people, because not everyone was alive then and the people that were, not all of them had video cameras.” However, he had no idea how to use the new technology.
“I’m always kind of technologically impaired,” Petroskey says. “I’m creative, but I’m not really good at figuring out the side of how all the wires work so much.”
Once Petroskey overcame that technical hurdle and began sharing his home video archive, he found that people were interested in what he was doing in present day.
Since he didn’t own a digital camera, he stuck to his lo-fi roots and started making new videos on VHS tape and shared them online using the same method he had figured out for his
