• Fried chicken chain went viral with a very simple post on X
  • The post has already been viewed over 11 million times
  • Cardinal Richard Francis Prevost was elected as the first ever American Pope
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While history was made yesterday, as Cardinal Richard Francis Prevost was elected as the first ever American Pope, the real winner was arguably not the Chicago native but actually a Louisiana Kitchen. Popeyes, to be exact.

While the world reacted to news of the new head of the Catholic Church, the fried chicken chain served up a tweet that had no doubt been cooking for weeks.

Popeyes Serves Up Some Fire

And with just one simple use of the space bar, Popeyes delivered themselves over 39,000 retweets, 412,000 likes and almost 12 million views and counting.

We really hope a social media manager is sitting on a nice fat bonus and has free Popeyes for life locked down for themselves and their family and friends right now. Because this is a simple level of genius that is almost unparalleled in the modern game.

Unsurprisingly, the replies were extremely in favour of the Louisiana Kitchen’s Pope post.

A Resounding “YES” For Pope yes

It is actually fitting that a Louisiana based brand would produce such a tweet to celebrate the election of Pope Leo XIV, given that the new holiness’ maternal grandparents married in New Orleans in the late 1800’s, before they moved to Chicago in 1910.

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