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Pope meets beauty vloggers, says they do a 'great thing'

smh.com.au

The Pope has praised beauty vlogs in an audience with YouTube stars on Sunday. A group of 12 YouTubers from six continents met the Pope at the Vatican for an informal private discussion about young people's identities, the Guardian reports. "You can create a virtual identity; you belong to this circle at least virtually. From that you can start taking a path of optimism and hope," the 79-year-old Pontiff told the group. However, it seems the Pope, who recently opened an Instagram account, is particularly fond of one genre of YouTube video: (inexplicably) the beauty vlog. (...)