Drama, fashion and cigarettes: Internet casts pop gaze on pope’s selection

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Drama, fashion and cigarettes: Internet casts pop gaze on pope’s selection

VATICAN CITY — 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 Catholics.The internet could not resist.“It’s so wild,” Rob Anderson, an author and internet personality who focuses on pop and LGBTQ+ culture, said of the conclave, which begins 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 ..