Drama, Fashion and Cigarettes: Internet Casts Pop Gaze on Pope's Selection
The conclave is one of the world's most solemn, sacred and consequential elections. It is also a secretive meeting of older men who wear red robes and engage in politicking, scheming and smoking while picking the leader of the world's 1.4 billion Roman Catholics.
The internet could not resist.
'It's so wild,' Rob Anderson, an author and internet personality who focuses on pop and L.G.B.T.Q. culture, said of the conclave, which begins on Wednesday. 'It's dramatic and it's fashion.'
One of the world's longest-running elections will play out for a global audience that has never been so immersed in social media and fluent in memes. It comes after the release of the movie 'Conclave' last year, showing that the pope's election can be watched while eating popcorn.
Now, after years of growing disaffection with the church, many young people around the world are leaning into the memeability of Vatican pageantry and intrigue.
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