What could be more 2025 than thousands of people lining up to file past the open coffin of the dead Pope just in order to whip out a selfie stick and take some pics in order to get more likes?
Security guards at St. Peter’s Basilica where the Pope is lying in state are having to usher people away from taking smiling selfies.
What the hell is wrong with these people?
Social media users are receiving backlash for posting smiling selfies with Pope Francis' body in his open casket.
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) April 24, 2025
Some people even tried using selfie sticks but were told to put them away.
"What did surprise me is the fact that earlier we were told no photos in the Sistine… pic.twitter.com/ZWWyW8Yu8G
The Daily Mail reports “Official images of first day from the lying-in-state showed swarms of people surrounding the simple coffin holding their phones in the air above their heads.”
“A sea of screens was seen floating around the Pope’s body, and some even extended selfie sticks in a bid to capture the best shot,” the report adds.
Even nuns were getting in on the action.
They’re treating it like a photo op.
Takeing selfies…Is nothing sacred these days???? People are treating the DEAD BODY of Pope Francis like a tourist spot and it's beyond disrespectful. Disgusting, it’s like them taking a selfie on 9/11 pic.twitter.com/n7fVVemd42
— Bad Press (@bptnetwork) April 25, 2025
The sheer numbers of people coming and going makes any operation to withhold phones at the door unrealistic.
'A sad reflection of the social media obsessed society we are living in…'
— GB News (@GBNEWS) April 24, 2025
GB News' @EllieCostelloTV on shock over visitors to Saint Peter's Basilica taking selfies with the Pope's body and livestreaming their visit. pic.twitter.com/HpDBggdDl3
But in the age of rampant narcissism people cannot be trusted to act respectfully.
What’s next? TikTok dancers twerking around the casket?
Respondents reacted with disgust:
The same people who cried “respect the dead” for George Floyd are now grinning next to the Pope’s corpse like it’s a Disney character meet-and-greet. We are living in a selfie-fueled spiritual apocalypse.
— The Undercurrent (@NotTheirScript) April 24, 2025
imagine posting “vatican photo dump ???” and pic 3 is a dead pope
— Debayo ? (@debayo_xx) April 24, 2025
Ok, the guy was a socialist but even that doesn’t merit that level of disrespect, peoples brains have been fried…
— Kevin Widner (@KevinCasperWid) April 24, 2025
People will do anything to go viral on social media these days. So sad.
— Renatta Michele Oxendine (@RenattaOxendine) April 24, 2025
"Look where I'm at and what I'm doing", is cringe culture.
— W3sst3r (@w3sst3r) April 24, 2025
Goulish behaviour. It's saddens me that I'm not at all surprised by it anymore.
— Rita (@Rita1755482) April 25, 2025
Phones have apparenltly destroyed the last shred of common decency in a large part of the population. That's really sad.
— ??? K.P. Lovecraft ??? (@farm_fox69634) April 24, 2025
They are gutter snipes.
— DeniseRiedel (@DeniseRiedel4) April 24, 2025
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— Steven Marshall (@unfilteredspm) April 24, 2025
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WTF? No one flew a drone in to get some choice aerial shots???
Wouldn’t it be nice to go back to a time before these G-D gadgets were invented?
They are only doing what they they have been programmed to do. Social media is 5th gen warfare as are personal devices to indoctrinate and alter peoples behaviour by removing morals, integrity, self respect and anything that basically makes you an actual human being. Most people now are just a physical representation of human beings without the actual part that makes you a human being. People are now recording car accidents, violence on phones without actually doing anything to help or assist and get it up on social media for clicks and get their instant gratification fix. We also live in an age where parent use their children as slaves on youtube for money which is basically child abuse. If people did not watch this crap, nobody would do it but the babylonian money magic is more important and what everyone else thinks. I would say that they should take a good reflective look at themselves but they would feel nothing to determine an issue. These people are sociopaths.
The narcissistic idiots that social media created. Everybody thinks they’re a star. Only lower IQ idiots follow them for the garbage they put out.