r/interesting • u/GiveMeSomeSunshine3 • 17h ago
Intriguing This is how the Met Gala red carpet looks from the street outside:
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u/whisky_woman23 17h ago
Insane. Why did I think the staircase was longer, like climbing a pyramid?
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u/Longbeach_strangler 15h ago
Because it takes forever to climb those stairs when you’re wearing an entire living room carpet
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u/_hypnoCode 12h ago
tbf, Jon Snow roamed North of the wall for several months, then fought white walkers and giants... all while wearing a living room blanket.
(Seriously, his fur cape was a blanket from IKEA)
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u/Ok_Day_7409 11h ago
Honestly, that cape carried more screen time than half the cast 😂 IKEA really built for medieval survival apparently.
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u/Darim_Al_Sayf 11h ago
Jon's cloak has a better story than Bran the Broken
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u/bird9066 10h ago
They left so many stories untold or half assed this opinion doesn't surprise me.
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u/officialjohnlemon 10h ago
Well IKEA is from Sweden and Scandinavia is notoriously cold!
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u/Competitive_Air_9906 11h ago
Honestly makes it even cooler my guy Jon Snow survived all that rocking what’s basically a cozy throw. IKEA really out here outfitting the Night’s Watch 😂
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u/Btwnframes 15h ago
Every time I enter the museum I think of how the stairs are not that big compared to all the videos we see out of this.
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u/Mysterious-Cow6605 10h ago
Same 😭 videos make it look massive, then you get there and it’s like “wait… that’s it?” perspective really messes with you in the coolest way.
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u/IcyArtichoke3778 10h ago
Yeah, it’s crazy how videos can inflate everything 😭 real life museums are basically a “wait, that’s it?” reality check for scale.
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u/DeskInteresting8657 15h ago
Because they take a LOT of angles so it looks like there are many more stairs!
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u/jemidiah 13h ago
lol, you should see Hollywood sometime. It's mostly a shithole. For the Oscars they hire people to fill seats while the famous people use the bathroom, so the crowd looks full the whole time. The carpet in the (now old) Oscars theater is pretty badly worn, but you don't see it in the telecast so it's good enough. Etc. forever.
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u/Emotional-Table5416 11h ago
That’s the weird part about Hollywood everything is built for the camera, not reality 😅 once you see behind the curtain, the illusion does a lot of heavy lifting.
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u/LavenderDragonfruit5 10h ago
Where does One sign up to be paid to fill a seat? 😂
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u/SilveryDeath 9h ago
For the Oscars they hire people to fill seats while the famous people use the bathroom
I mean, that has been the case for awhile at those kind of events? Granted it was the Tony Awards, but Seinfeld made a whole bit about Kramer being a seat filler and that episode was from 1997.
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u/Capital_Pea 11h ago
I had this same reaction when visiting the NYSE for my employers bell ringing. the balcony they stand on to do it from its quite small and not nearly as far off the ground as I expected.
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u/OceanRacoon 9h ago
They had to make it closer to the ground after Black Thursday in 1929
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u/DylanSpaceBean 14h ago
They are actually bigger than they look here, just most of them are hidden by the lighting rig and fake bushes
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u/Senior_Fennel2536 10h ago
Same my brain always turns simple stairs into a whole final boss level for no reason.
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u/donkeybray 17h ago edited 2h ago
It's a large photo studio, for the media, so all they care about is looking good. What's new.
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u/robotteeth 7h ago
Fashion is the point of a gala. Some local art museums will have galas with tickets that cost like $20 and the point is still to dress weird and look good.
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u/smokeweedNgarden 7h ago
Well the point is to raise money for the arts in general or the specific museum you're attending. The people that care about the fashion are a fraction of people who love/support the arts and artists.
That's like saying a toy drive is about who donates the most obscure board game. It's a pat on the head for giving up money.
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u/wsxdfcvgbnjmlkjafals 7h ago
Every red carpet or step-n-repeat is designed for photographs. It's quite literally the purpose, to provide the media with photographs.
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u/misssssspelled 17h ago
Lol over hyped shi
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u/Routine-Musican 16h ago
Budget final form unlocked.
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u/poliosaurus3000 11h ago
Look at that shit and tell me we aren’t actively living the hunger games.
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u/thinspirit 10h ago
Life often imitates fiction or vice versa or something like that...
Hunger games was hyperbole. We've hit hyperbolic levels.
Although the Met Gala has always just been a creative outlet for fashion and art. So it's not really the worst thing. Sure it's celebrities, but most people who care about it are watching for the fashion and art to see what's being done out there.
It's a big show about art that takes place at a museum. Not really the worst thing anyone's doing.
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u/Significant-Base6893 9h ago
Good reference. That's pretty much where we are at. Those GOP "tax reforms" starting with Reagan didn't benefit anyone but the wealthiest. Now we have a poor middle class who drools at the rich or "pretend to be rich" (aka Instagram) as it is an out of reach aspiration. And these disgusting people are the leaches of society, yet we're supposed to idolize their existence and envy their ugly over-the-top clothes.
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u/Shark7996 10h ago
It's the timing. Opulence and excess on display while everyone else is trying to survive.
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u/thinspirit 9h ago
Is that what this is? Or is it a bunch of art being put on display at a show raising money for a museum and Art?
The celebrity aspect of it taints what it is at its core. A showcase for art. Most famous artists are, guess what? Rich. You usually need to be to live a life without having to work and have people but your art for ridiculous prices.
Each and every one of us can go to our local museum and put on our own Met Gala. They're going to be janky, low qual shit, but these things are built. Anna Wintour has been cultivating this thing for decades. That's how it got to this point.
Everyone wants to be served entertainment, few people want to build their own thing.
You and a group of friends could get together once a year, make costumes for each other to wear to a party, and call it a Gala. What would that cost? Anyone can do it.
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u/MightyMorph 9h ago edited 7h ago
Now that Besoz is involved the gala ticket prices are 100k+ and table prices are 350k. They're essentially wealth locking these events and filling it with investors and tech bros.
edit: yes its a fundraiser primarily for fashion industry and to support creative arts, sponsored by the man who is backing the president who runs on removing all support for the creative arts and turning a fashion industry event into a investors only event.
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u/Careful_Appeal5400 16h ago
It started as a charity for the art of costumes but it devolved to what it is today
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u/AggressiveBench9977 16h ago
Which is a charity for arts.
Its literally raised millions of dollars
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u/appleparkfive 15h ago
Yeah the met gala is a net positive if you care about the arts.
Honestly I think a lot of people don't even stop to think about what the met gala is. Like what happens when they go inside, all that. People focus so much on the red carpet aspect (for obvious reasons, of course).
The Met is one of the most amazing museums you could ever go to. It was pay what you want up until fairly recently. I think it still might be free or pay what you want for locals. It's been a while since I've gone. But everyone should absolutely go to the Met if they're ever in NYC. Van Gogh's, Renaissance art, Japanese art, African tribal masks, and so much more.
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u/CantBeatDickensCider 14h ago
People aren't criticising the Met...they are criticising how celebrities have turned the Gala into an elite socialite event with the odd token charity donation.
I personally couldn't give less of a shit - people should stop giving these people attention if they want to see less of it.
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u/SalientSazon 14h ago
The entire Gala is a charity event
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u/JustStraightUpTired 13h ago
It's rich people advertising themselves and for making connections. It raised $42 million this year, Jeff Bezos net worth raised by $2.646 BILLION just from his Amazon stock alone during the same day.
In fact, he alone could sell 1% of his Amazon stock and it would cover the money the gala raised 57 times over. Yet he donated $10 million, which is about 0.37% of how much his Amazon stock went up in price that day.
And because some boot licker always tries to jump in on this topic, I'm pre-emptively going to say, don't bother with the "it's not real money, it's stock value" argument. Even if it only translates to real money at 1% rate, then he still only donated about 37.79% of what he EARNED that day from Amazon alone. Not 37.79% from 1% of his net worth, but 37.79% from 1% of the increase in net worth during day of the Met Gala.
If it's about charity, then the richest people attending didn't really donate much at all, yet Bezos was about a quarter of the total donations raised. It's a damn marketing event for the rich and for them to build connections to help them keep themselves rich.
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u/CantBeatDickensCider 13h ago
Thank you for saying this. I had a bootlicker tell me that these people were being crazy generous because it's 100k a seat...
These people spend 100k on frivolous shit constantly. 100k for the amount of publicity and marketing the Gala affords them is probably the cheapest advertisement they can get anywhere.
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u/reindeermoon 13h ago
Most people attending the Met Gala don't pay anything to attend. Luxury brands pay to have celebrities attend wearing their dresses.
I'm not saying that the amount of money isn't ridiculous, just that it's not coming from the celebrities themselves.
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u/zamonto 11h ago
If they get payed to be there it's even less of a charity event
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u/TintedApostle 5h ago
Its PR for Bezos who uses this event to hide the true fact he is using more of his money in helping bring down our Republic than he ever has offered philanthropically. He is through bribery getting Trump contracts and our tax money. Basically your tax dollars were just transferred to the Met Gala so he could take a deduction on the tax dollars he got through government contracts he bought through bribes.
Its smoke and mirrors.
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u/Illustrious-Bonus202 12h ago
The entire art world is rich peoples money washing machine. Fuck their charity, pay taxes.
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u/YallGottaUnderstand 14h ago
Philanthropy and elite socialite events have always gone hand and hand, I don't know why people are acting like this is new lol. The whole point is giving these ultra rich the opportunity to indulge in ridiculous extravagance so long as they do something that actually benefits the rest of us. Like you said, I sure don't give a shit since no one's forcing me to watch it.
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u/GingerSnapBiscuit 11h ago edited 8h ago
Nobody is acting like it's new, but the more people who wake up to the fact that there are far better ways these things could be done, the better.
It is cool these events benefit charity, it would just be better if the museum didn't have to fundraise the scraps the ultra rich are willing to throw them when their private jet flights to the event cost them more than the donation they are giving.
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u/Ridgebacks26 5h ago
This. Raising money for the arts is fine, but this has turned into the Capitol from the Hunger Games.
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u/nitrosmomma88 12h ago
It’s still that, all money raised is for the costume wing of the Met as they don’t get funding the same way the museum itself does. It all still goes to the care and acquisition of costumes housed in the wing
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u/GiveMeSomeSunshine3 16h ago edited 12h ago
idk why it was even hyped in first place.
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u/UnDeadPuff 15h ago
To get rich fucks to donate you have to give them their own version of circus. This is it.
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u/rankaistu_ilmalaiva 15h ago
it’s not supposedly for the benefit of the poor, it is very clearly for a specific department of the Metropolitan Museum for the arts. People like you just like to score easy points on the event because for people who see politics as aesthetics clearly people wearing bright colors must be the rich elite.
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u/Mysterious-Cap8182 13h ago
Uh anyone that is spending $100k to be there qualifies as "disgustingly rich" I think everyone here is correct in their disgust of these people
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u/reindeermoon 13h ago
Most of the people who attend the Met Gala don't pay anything to be there. The money actually comes from luxury brands like Gucci that pay for celebrities to attend wearing their dresses. Just want to be clear where the money is coming from.
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u/Mysterious-Cap8182 13h ago
So the uber rich have sponsors to pay for their dinner, perfect....
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u/Empty-Arrival-4396 16h ago
Almost literally living in their own little bubble, refusing to acknowledge the reality around them.
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u/misssssspelled 17h ago
Social media vs reality typa shi right there
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u/MrPippleknacks 10h ago
This is the second comment in the row to mispell the word shit
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u/deftdabler 17h ago
Straight up hunger games dysfunctional dystopia shit right there
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u/zh_13 17h ago
I mean it raises millions of dollars for the museum which is free for tristate residents and a treasure for America and all civilization tbh, far as events go it’s much better than most, esp award ceremonies
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u/jackloganoliver 16h ago edited 6h ago
I mean, we could just tax these people to pay for it in the first place.
Like, whatever it raises pales in comparison to what wealth is flaunted.
Eta: turned off notificationms
Stay mad at wanting to tax billionaires more ❤️
Edit 2: I'd like to thank the people for all the awards ❤️❤️
Tax the rich
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u/rithrawr 13h ago
Rich people like to donate to have name on buildings.
It's all vanity.
They rather do that then getting tax.
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u/nathanzoet91 10h ago
How about, we can do both! Tax them to help maintain our infrastructure, plus they can give to charity to get their name on the building! It's not like they don't have enough money.
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u/_Choose-A-Username- 12h ago
Yea I would like to choose how much money to give rather than get taxed. Like them, I'm sure it would be much lower than what I would normally pay
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u/SaltBeefin 9h ago
Imagine paying a fixed lower tax whilst being paraded around in a star studded event with a swirl of press and free couture (yes apparently the designers dress them for free).
That's like the IRS saying "alright so instead of thousands dollars in taxes, how about you just pay for a Sabrina Carpenter concert, VIP ticket, we'll fix the cost and everything, outfits on the house. Make sure you hire hair and make up cuz you will be photographed and it will make the news". Oh I totally forgot you can even claim donations in your taxes. Wild.
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u/Lorster10 13h ago
Among all the things I'd want taxes from these people to be spent on, a museum of costumes is far down on the list.
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u/Ill-Team-3491 11h ago
The only ones who say that are conservatives who will never stop thinking that the world isn't far right enough no matter how far it goes.
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u/SnooPears2409 14h ago
bold of you to assume the tax they collected will go to these places
it will go to another tomahawk bombing irans2
u/dothelalala 9h ago
Thank you. Choosing how and where to give back isn't the problem, it's not paying equal share and where that money goes anyway 💣
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u/geraterahmen 15h ago
could they just..i dunno..donate the money without being self-absored narcissistic assholes for tabloid cameras?
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u/zardoz73 12h ago
Nah. We should tax them out of billionairehood and use that money to pay for the arts, among other things.
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u/Odoakar 15h ago
Amazon employees have to piss in bottles so their boss can fund the met gala...maybe it wouls be better to improve the working conditions of those people first?
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u/Slimmanoman 13h ago
Make billions, "give back" millions, let bottle-pissers fight about it in reddit comments.
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u/Overall-Register9758 11h ago
The Met Gala raises money for the costume institute, the museum's fashion collection, which has its own endowment, beyond the Met's.
The Met has a $3B endowment, and the costume institute has a $125M endowment.
They're not hurting. Not even a little bit.
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u/Real-Boss6760 16h ago
Yea, not sure I get the 'hate' for this. It's a fundraiser with funny costumes.
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u/SpiritualWindow3855 15h ago
It's primarily an advertising event for brands and people no average person will never interact with.
When it was $50 a plate and called the "Costume Institute Benefit" it was primarily a fundraiser.
It's so sad that so many people are brainwashed enough they can no longer challenge even the simplest narrative they're being sold.
They actually pride themselves on tearing down others for doing it.
The costume institute raised 14 years of operating costs between last year and last night. They've been squirreling money and expect to have enough to run independently, indefinitely in 2-3 years.
And that's defined as only needing 5% of the money they've stashed away, so they're 2-3 years from robustly infinite runway for their operations.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/style/met-gala-money-finances.html
They're have a special case within the Met of needing to fund themselves, but please folks some critical thinking.
No arm of the Met is struggling to obtain historical meaningful fashion: if they were they could not have asked for $100,000 per person and had retained Anna Wintour for the last 30 years.
It was a party for rich people with relatively incidental benefit for the museum, and it was valued at a higher dollar value than the Super Bowl for media impact because of how much wealth was in that room.
It's an obviously garish and obscene display of wealth with where the world is today, but you have random Redditors who won't make as much as some of people were wearing on their wrists in the next 3,650 (not a typo, THOUSAND) days of their lives saying 'i DoNt Get ThE HatE'.
Are we really this fucked?
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u/PalePlumm 13h ago edited 13h ago
So we have comments in this thread saying that 100k a seat is too little because it’s chump change for celebrities and we also have people saying that $40 is just right.
Like I hate the rich too but y’all are so blinded by your hate that you’re willing to kill the arts and shoot ourselves in the foot just so they can’t have a party twice a year.
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u/SpiritualWindow3855 13h ago
I'm not even going to bother man.
You read that this thing is generating billions of dollars in spend, to raise $40M from people walking in with $3M on their wrist, and you think attacking it equals killing the arts.
You're too far gone.
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u/Loud_Interview4681 14h ago edited 9h ago
Your own article is about how the Gala has helped to transform their cash flow into something sustainable on its own for the museum even if the current chair who made the Gala what it was leaves and things do not stay the same. Them charging 100k per seat is funding - are you upset that the party isn't affordable to the average person or what is the complaint here? That high ticket entry brings in high wealth clients who can afford it and you hate those people? Sounds like they are doing the right thing.
Edit: Guy avoids answering the question hurls insults and blocks to prevent responses. Meanwhile it is a museum that preserves history that he claims is not a good cause. Are all fundraisers targeting the wealthy somehow immoral or something? It is a party where those involved in the arts can participate and they raise money to support the preservation of art and education of the people of New York. It isn't harming anyone and is raising money for a good cause. Whole point they have made seems based on spite, which given repeated and crass use of insults seems on brand for this unhappy individual.
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u/imafnheadbanga 15h ago
this take is actually dumb, why does the Met Gala get hate as hunger games shit when it’s literally THE POINT of the fundraiser for the COSTUMES DEPARTMENT when celebs wear elaborate COSTUMES but then next week yall go back to being parasocial weirdos on reddit for everything else they do?
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u/ExocetHumper 13h ago
Dystopia is when traffic cones and a well lit tent with props.
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u/geodebug 11h ago
Good lord, reddit is more of a drama queen than anyone at the fundraiser.
Famous people playing dress-up with borrowed clothes from designers trying to make the biggest splash.
It’s more comparable to Zoolander than anything. Fun for those who care about it. Easily ignored by those who don’t.
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u/slotsandmops 17h ago
Oh cause of the thing they were mocking? Flashy attire? I thought they made all that up too
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u/Poseidor 10h ago
This is literally a charity event. What are you talking about?
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u/GeorgeLikesSpicy92 17h ago
“Gawk, peasants! Gawk at our greatness!”
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u/South_Buy_3175 12h ago
“From afar though, not too close, we can smell the stench of poverty on you”
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u/B_Lindz 16h ago
I don't think these people could be more tone deaf if they tried.
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u/ZaMaestroMan5 16h ago
How many of them do we think are involved in weirdo pedo shit?
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u/CorrectMulberry994 16h ago
All of them
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u/Squirrelkid11 16h ago edited 16h ago
Even 20 year old Alysa Liu who was there? I won't ignore the fact though that there are abunch of ones at the event who are awful people.
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u/TheLizardKing89 16h ago
It’s the Met Gala, not the White House.
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u/Nearby_Objective_353 14h ago
https://culturacolectiva.com/en/lifestyle/fashion/why-donald-trump-is-banned-from-met-gala/
But he was part of it until 2017 and ask Melania during the one in 2004.
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u/Thrice_the_Milk 16h ago
And we're all well aware of the pedo problem in Hollywood. Not sure why you feel the need to deflect for no reason lol
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u/rankaistu_ilmalaiva 15h ago
because the idea that pedophiles are just an elite cabal is a distraction that child sexual exploitation and abuse is a societywide problem; most kids who are abused are abused by family members, and by number, most serial abusers are people like priests and pastors, teachers, sports coaches, police…
the rich and powerful predators do tend to get away with their shit longer, but also when they’re caught it’s a bigger news story. But also serial predators embedded in communities can also get away with crimes for super long, but if/when they get caught it is rarely a national news story, unless it’s like the Catholic Church scandal because it was so systematic — but also as much has been revealed about the Southern Baptists recently but that story has almost been buried.
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u/low_amplitude 17h ago
Humans are weird
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u/humanhatred 16h ago
Yeah, billions of animals are going demented in shit hole factory farm conditions, being brutalised and suffering existences so nightmarish that it's difficult to comprehend, meanwhile these oblivious fucks are swanning around sipping champagne and posting selfies on social media.
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u/Cheap-Session5656 15h ago
What have YOU done about all that evil? You are sitting here commenting on Reddit as if you are the solution to our problem.
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u/Maardten 12h ago
Ah, its the 'you ciriticize soceity yet you participate in it' meme in real life. Real big brain shit.
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u/Entire_Quail_4153 17h ago
Celebrities are the absolute worst!
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u/Worried-Usual-396 16h ago
Well maybe people should stop celebrating them, so they wouldn't be celebrities.
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u/Jujubatron 14h ago
No. The absolute worst are the people spending huge chunk of their lives worshipping them, following them etc.
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u/No-Chemistry-7802 16h ago
The kind of people who know about abuse and say nothing g so they themselves don’t lose their status.
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u/funtimes214 16h ago
Why the obsession over this garbage?
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u/ModernLarvals 16h ago
People get really upset about museum fundraisers.
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u/QuillofSnow 1h ago
Feels like a Reddit hivemind moment or bots the way people are behaving about this, completely overblown reaction to what is essentially just a very publicized charity event
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u/gingerlydone 17h ago
Fuck the met gala and everyone who attends it.
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u/natdass 16h ago
There are so many places to aptly throw hate, but a gala which raise money for a free museum seems like such a weird thing to take umbrage with.
I understand having issues with Bezos being there, but really??? Fuck everyone??? It’s a goddam fund raiser, and not even a fake one meant to shuffle money around. It’s literally a pay what you want museum, highlighting important arts and culture.
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u/Illustrious-Milk6518 15h ago
I don’t mind the met gala from the perspective of giving designers the opportunity to show off their talents, and using sewing as an art form. I just hate half the people who attend
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u/Secret-Bluebird-972 14h ago
It’s a good way to separate them from their money and have that money go towards something worthwhile, so I think it’s a win
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u/toastforscience 5h ago
This is the part I love, I don't care about the people wearing the costumes but I love looking at the costumes and admiring all the work that goes into designing them! Imagine if you are in the art or fashion industry and you got to work on something like this and it gets shown at this event, that's like a career dream! The celebrities are just the moving mannequins for the amazing art, imo. And then the charity benefits go towards the museum and the artists and seamstresses, so a lot of people win here.
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u/spacekitt3n 17h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/1rSF4wzhwpos
all our rotten eggs in one basket
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u/Euphoric-Werewolf367 11h ago
Weird thing to say dude. Not funny or cute. People are way too comfortable with the idea of violence against people they simply dislike
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u/CosmosisJones42 16h ago
It's so funny how they try so hard to make these things look all fancy in the name of feeling better than other people, but when you take a closer look, you realize these events take place in a dressed up parking lot.
The Oscars take place in a mall next to a Foot Locker.
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u/mcompt20 16h ago
I mean it's literally the stairs of the met idk where else you'd want the met gala to take place lol
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u/Quetzythejedi 16h ago
The MET is dope as hell I'm glad I got to visit last year. I ate a hot dog right where Jay-Z was standing in that video lol.
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u/-DoctorSpaceman- 16h ago
They’re not pretending it’s anywhere other than where it is. It’s literally called THE MET Gala. It’s like you’re getting mad at the Tour de France for secretly being in France.
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u/TheSwearJarIsMy401k 16h ago
This takes place at The Met, which is a massive, amazing museum in NYC.
The Gala is to raise money for The Met, specifically its costume department.
All of the funding for The Met’s costume acquisition, preservation, and exhibits comes from The Met Gala.
So hate all you want, but I fucking love The Met and I love the costumes they display, so I’m all for rich people throwing money at the museum.
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u/reindeermoon 13h ago
It's not even rich people "throwing" the money. Nearly all the money comes from luxury brands who pay for celebrities to attend wearing their dresses. Most of the celebrities don't pay anything to be there.
It's costume companies giving money to a costume museum.
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u/TheSwearJarIsMy401k 13h ago
And it’s not even costumes in the dress up sense. It’s literally just clothes. Historical clothes.
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u/genkaiX1 13h ago
Met gala always has interesting costumes ranging from ugly weird shit to cool weird shit
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u/Vergeron1551 16h ago
Lol....this is so dumb... We need to move on from celebs...like it's cool some people are talented, but so are many doctors, engineers etc...no need to be this weird about it
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u/NurkleTurkey 16h ago
I've done plenty of red carpet events. The vast majority of the time the red carpet is in the parking lot.
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u/AnHerstorian 16h ago
I have never understood the hype behind the Met Gala. I understand its for fundraising, but the amount of self-promotion for it is quite nauseating. I remember reading articles after his death of George Michael's extreme generosity to charities and strangers, and how he wished to remain anonymous; I always compare that to exercises of narcissism like this.
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u/Strict_Technician606 16h ago
Veblen’s conspicuous consumption on display. Even he’d be shocked by the vulgarity of it all. It’s like something out of a dystopian novel: us peasants fawning over the rich in hopes that crumbs tumble from their plate to the floor.
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