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POPE FRANCIS IS in the United States this week, and appealed to his Twitter followers to pray for his safe journey.

But he hasn’t really been getting the response he may have expected.

American teens have been tweeting the pope in their thousands with three simple words:

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Er, what? Why is this happening?

OK, let’s take it back a bit. Teens have a range of responses they use to try and get celebrities to notice them on social media. They can be as mild as “MOM”, a simple exclamation of admiration for the celebrity:

To altogether more obscene and often nonsensical requests:

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Now they’re drawing unlikely teen sensation Pope Francis into this strange, ironic little world. Kids these days.

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