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Met Gala Under Siege from Social Media: For Years I Wrote About the Greed and Stupidity, And Now It’s All Over the Internet

By Roger Friedman

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For years and years I wrote about the Met Gala aka the Met Ball, all about the greed, and stupidity.

Now it’s burst onto social media, it’s all over the internet, as if it’s a discovery. Welcome, all.

The bottom line seems to be that Jeff Bezos’ sponsorship was a bridge too far. Bezos is now more famous for paying the Trumps $40 million (plus another $35 million in promotion) for Melania’s idiotic documentary, and also for destroying the Washington Post, than for drone dropping toilet paper overnight.

Last year’s Met Ball was sold out to TikTok and the Chinese

A site called @everyonehateselon is only one of many chronicling the tsunami of negativity against the Met Gala. Instagram and TikTok are filled with it. Big celebrities are declining to attend, from Meryl Streep to Zendaya. Other reasons might be that no one can afford gas or beef, and that all other grocery items are affordable.

As reported today in AirMail, the Gala is no longer about the Metropolitan Museum of Art, it’s about The Anna Wintour Costume Institute. It’s not about Rembrandt or Egyptian artifacts, it’s about Vogue cashing in on ruffled dresses. Is that what we signed on for?

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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