Have you seen this video that seems to show a woman whose shocked understanding of her just becoming the pope with a man she fell in love with many years ago? Robert Prevost, who claimed to be Chicago-born, was elected Pope Thursday and named after Leo Xiv, is said to have a trystrest in his youth with the unbelievable woman. But the video is fake. Completely, completely fake.
The viral video appears to show a woman talking to two people on a computer, one of which should be her mother. “My mom’s situation is the pope of the Catholic church,” the creator of the video said with a smile. “My mom connects with the pope.”
Text on the screen claims that this sexual encounter happened to her “mom” At the age of 19, it seemed reasonable if the real people in the world were made in the world. According to the New York Times, after all, Prefoster didn't take the oath until he was 26 years old. The problem is that the video was produced by a comedian who often made fake claims to spread.
Creator Louisa Melcher often attaches videos to recent news events and claims to be the center of it. For example, she made a video about getting off the stage in Usher's Super Bowl halftime show, which people think they saw on TV. Or another about another falling off the boat at the 2024 Summer Olympics, which showed her the support on her neck.
Sometimes Melcher doesn't necessarily pin his performance to something in the news and seems to create ridiculous situations with the whole fabric, such as when he claims that his sister's fiancé says her name in a marriage vow or claims that influencer uses a bad photo in a poll to judge her charm. In another video, she claims to have the books removed from a small, free library nearby and resold them on Amazon.
Melcher seems to have really figured out how to crack the social media environment in a way that makes her videos spread through Rage-Bait, and she has been doing it for years. Surprisingly, the internet is obviously big enough that she can continue to make these ridiculous claims that people don’t recognize her as a comedian. Sometimes, the news media even took her viral videos and took her statements as a reality. The comments in her videos make it clear that while some people now know she is joking, many think she is serious.
“I have a free library outside my home if Amazon dealers come and take all the books I would cry away,” Melcher’s video commented. “It’s mean.”
The video claims that her “mom” who was shocked by the pope has more than 1.4 million views on Instagram and over 5.6 million views of Tiktok at the time of writing. But it spreads very quickly on Friday and it looks like it will be really popular on weekends. But this is staged. There is nothing to trust about it.
Melcher's video about the new pope is fun, but it would be more interesting if it were real. If you see this in the feed, we regret to report it is totally fake.
