‘Didn’t wear that huge coat’: Internet blames Pope’s respiratory illness on lack of swaggy AI puffer

Pope Francis was hospitalized in Rome this week to receive treatment for a respiratory infection. Yet according to the internet, the entire incident could've been avoided had the pontiff simply worn the AI-generated puffer coat that took the digital world by storm last week.

On Wednesday, the Vatican announced that the 86-year-old religious leader had recently been admitted to the hospital after experiencing "respiratory difficulties." Tests determined that a respiratory infection, which was unrelated to COVID-19, was the cause.