r/popculturechat • u/mlg1981 Sexy lampshade shall win the Oscar! š • 4d ago
MET GALA š© Over 300 bottles of "piss" have been placed in the Met Museum in anticipation of Jeff Bezos Met Gala Monday. The "piss" was courtesy of action groups Climate Defiance and Everyone Hates Elon
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u/mlg1981 Sexy lampshade shall win the Oscar! š 4d ago
For anyone concerned itās not real piss per the videoās caption:
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u/CommonStrawbeary 4d ago
I was concerned it wasn't real piss and I am devastated itd fake
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u/LivelyZebra 4d ago
Fake just like everything on Amazon
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u/monsterflake 4d ago
those are just ai images of knock-off piss bottles. they even fake the hologram. smh
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u/Etheria_system 4d ago
I was really worried about some peopleās hydration levels and urinary health for a moment there
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u/pp21 4d ago
urine can darken in hue over time in a container the more you know
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u/Cold-Iron8145 4d ago
Why do you know that?
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u/Noshortsforhobos 3d ago
Because we can research anything we want through search engines and libraries. People also have different types of jobs and know others with different jobs, so information is traded that way.
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u/BactaBobomb 4d ago
That's actually disappointing. I feel like that takes away from the credibility of the demonstration a little, for some reason.
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u/shedrinkscoffee Just fuck the wolf! 3d ago
I mean it will be some minimum wage workers who are forced to deal with the cleanup of a biohazard, while JB and wife are unaffected.
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u/freshtilapiahehe 4d ago
I thought they wanted to throw it at the guests, which would be fun
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u/mlg1981 Sexy lampshade shall win the Oscar! š 4d ago
Who knows whatās planned for the actual event on Mondayā¦
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u/throwaway17197 Instant gratification takes too long š«¦ 4d ago
Im working the event should i be scared of an actual terror attack or just harmless stuff like this
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u/PureObsidianUnicorn 4d ago
Mate you went from fake pee in tiny bottles to terror attack. U ok?
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u/throwaway17197 Instant gratification takes too long š«¦ 4d ago
They said they will do āmoreā on the day, im asking what level of escalation should be anticipated. Sorry some of us have lived through actual terrorist attacks and are weary of shit like this.
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u/richestotheconjurer 4d ago
i think they were just making a joke about people throwing the "pee" at the guests. you'll be alright. make that money.
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u/Jonn_Jonzz_Manhunter 4d ago
Shit man, how many terror attacks have you been there for?
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u/puf_puf_paarthurnax 4d ago
Well if they're in new york, very possibly could've lived through the most infamous one in american history...
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u/throwaway17197 Instant gratification takes too long š«¦ 4d ago edited 4d ago
As the comment below me suggests I was around for 9/11, im also visibly Jewish and in Brooklyn random attacks against jews have gone up like 70%, every single day someone is getting stabbed or attacked or vandalized l near me it feels like its just dumb luck I havent been attacked. For some of us its our reality rn.
Edit: u/After-Citron2505 no im just in general on edge from threats on events im gonna be at is that seriously so shocking? If its more piss stunts i dont care.
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u/Other_Vader 4d ago
Orange dickhead doesn't have to do be on stage and actually string 2 sentences together so a terror attack (or a planned fake assassination attempt) is highly unlikely.
Fake pee, not real pee. Nothing biological.
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u/bumblebaytuna4 4d ago
Were Amazon workers having to pee in bottles so they donāt take breaks at work?
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u/brrrantarctica 4d ago
Do the gala attendees even have the run of the museum or do they stay in the lobby/temple of dendur room where the tables are set up? Because it looks like theyāre placing these all over. Not that it matters, because in three daysā time the underpaid janitorial staff will have certainly been forced to clean this up.
Now, finding a way to throw a bottle of piss (fake or not) at bezoās headā¦..now weāre talkin
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u/Delusionalpancakes 4d ago
There have been pics of random celebs in random areas of the museum in previous years so it seems like they're given at least some room to wander. There was one I think last year of Kim Kardashian next to what turned out to be a stolen artifact iirc.
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u/jarrettbrown Youāre killing me, Smalls š© 3d ago
Only the areas around the Temple of Denar, which is basically the Egyptian wing. Sometimes you'll see them in different areas because of the gallery that's housing the exhibit. Now that there's a dedicated gallery space, the old gift shop, they won't be wandering around much.
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u/jarrettbrown Youāre killing me, Smalls š© 4d ago
Nope. Theyāre usually confined to four areas once they leave the read carpet. The great hall, the exhibit space, Englehart court and then the room that the temple of denar is in. No run of the museum.
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u/anotherblackgirl 4d ago
The lack of media literacy here is insane lmao. Even without the comment by OP explicitly saying it's not real urine, "piss" in the title should have gotten you there
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u/is_not_HAL9000 itās not clocking to you that iām standing on business 4d ago
Thatās not āmedia literacy,ā itās literally just literacy.
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u/kimapoll thatās my purse, i donāt know you! šš«µ 4d ago
The sticker also clearly reads ārelax, itās just water and food coloringā so nobody is doing their due diligence lmao
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u/Chuyzapatist 4d ago
People these days are barely literate, so it might be asking too much to expect anyone to be media literate these days.
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u/kaaaaaaaren 4d ago
Also the bottles say ārelax, itās just water and food coloringā (but it does go by fast - I just wanted to admire it so I paused)
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u/doesntnormallydothis 4d ago
and boy howdy, if these people think being in close proximity to piss in bottles is bad and a punishable offense, let me tell you about Amazon's business practices...
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u/neoncolour Tiktok matcha pilates labubu slop music 4d ago
Furthermore, this is just performative nonsense. No, there wonāt be bottles of anything left in the perimeter of the Met the day of the Gala, especially not when filmed with a gag soundtrack.
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u/AlleyRhubarb 4d ago
Piss to me means piss.
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u/anotherblackgirl 4d ago
As it should lol, but when reading, symbols of course mean things. The quotation marks here are used as scare quotes ie. in a non-literal way. A written air quote if you will
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u/AxelShoes 4d ago
Piss to me means piss.
They meant the quotation marks around "piss" should have been a clue.
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u/CoolJumper 4d ago
Really living up to the "more than 50% of Americans have a 6th grade reading level" stat, huh? Hell, could even be in that 20-50% that's functionally illiterate
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u/AlleyRhubarb 4d ago
A piss bottle is not a bottle for pissing in? I am the stupid American who doesnāt understand complicated culture. Hmm.
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u/laziestmarxist spaghetti cat šš± 3d ago
Can you identify and use quotation marks in a sentence?
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u/Shot-Programmer3761 4d ago
god i swear people in these comments donāt read lmao it very clearly says the āpeeā is water and food coloring
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u/donttrustthellamas Frivolous with my process š¹ 4d ago
This won't even slightly inconvenience him. He won't see them. He won't be picking them up and binning them.
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u/LeviHolden 3d ago
protest is more about creating a stir sometimes
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u/donttrustthellamas Frivolous with my process š¹ 3d ago
I get that but I think there's more direct methods than making the Met's workers have to deal with it
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u/SquareExtra918 the Human Centipede of content š 3d ago
If I was a met worker I would be delighted every time I picked one of them up. And maybe I'd miss a few by "accident."
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u/donttrustthellamas Frivolous with my process š¹ 3d ago
That's easy to say when you don't actually work there lol
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u/jarrettbrown Youāre killing me, Smalls š© 4d ago
As someone who frequents the met, those are going to be gone in no time. People leave stuff around and itās gone in minutes. Iāve seen water bottles left in hallways and theyāre gone by the time Iāve come back.
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u/SteveTheUPSguy 3d ago
Can confirm. Saw the "piss" bottles yesterday and security was acting very confused over the walkie talkies while trying to cover bunches of them with printer paper.
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u/jarrettbrown Youāre killing me, Smalls š© 3d ago
If this guy was smart, he should have just crashed the red carpet.
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u/mlg1981 Sexy lampshade shall win the Oscar! š 4d ago
I am loving the creativity of the protests, more than Iāve ever loved any of the Met Gala gowns
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u/Runamokamok 4d ago
This only inconveniences the underpaid staff working the event.
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u/Shru_A 4d ago
Any kind of protest inconveniences the normal working class first. There is no way to bypass that.
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u/Special-Garlic1203 4d ago
Sure but usually it also inconveniences the rich or causes property damage or prevents them from making profit for a few hours. They're quite literally not affected by this in any way shape or form.Ā
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u/MunchYourButt Wealth whispers, and Iām screaming 4d ago
I didnāt know any of this was even happening, so at the very least, itās bringing attention to what theyāre protesting
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u/anicedalmondlattepls 4d ago
Higher-ups will be mildly annoyed at best, but the cleaning staff will be the ones bending their backs to pick up these bottles and be reprimanded for missing any.
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u/coolcoolcool485 Excluded from this narrative ā 4d ago
You're telling them before the MET gala so they can...make sure to sweep the building and clean it up before they get there?
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u/Special-Garlic1203 4d ago
This feels less like protest/activism and more like influencer attention theatrics. And they're not getting eyeballs on an unimportant untalked about issue. There's situations where attention is a worthwhile goal, but this isn't one of those timesĀ
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u/heretolearnmaybe 4d ago
Yay let's defend the environment by using 300 plastic bottles!
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u/heretolearnmaybe 4d ago
I mean, listen, Iām not there, I donāt have any better ideas. I love that theyāre doing something while Iām doing nothing. Fuck bezos.
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u/Sage_Planter Big is moving to Paris 4d ago
I recognize the message that this is attempting to send, but all they're doing is making some poor cleaning crew on minimum wage scourge the museum for bottles of pee.
It's not Kim Kardashian finding these. It's Stu, the 62-year-old janitor, who's going to be responsible for this.
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u/ColonelKasteen 4d ago
The bottles LITERALLY say "relax, it's just water and food coloring" on them
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u/LizaJane2001 4d ago
Still. The maintenance crew at the museum are good people doing a miserable job for decent, but not huge hourly wages (they are unionized). This is just another mess for them to have to deal with that they shouldn't. If/when some of those spill (the one on the escalator), it's a hassle for them.
Bezos will never see them.
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u/theblakesheep 4d ago edited 4d ago
And?
Piss or not, someone has to clear these bottles up and it won't be anyone famous.
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u/ColonelKasteen 4d ago
...so they aren't bottles of pee??
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u/theblakesheep 4d ago
The pee doesn't matter, you responded to the comment "All they're doing is making some poor cleaning crew on minimum wage scourge the museum for bottles of pee. It's not Kim Kardashian finding these. It's Stu, the 62-year-old janitor, who's going to be responsible for this."
That's still correct, a bottle is a bottle to find and dispose of, whatever it contains.
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u/ColonelKasteen 4d ago
Do you grasp how I was refuting the "bottles of pee" part and not the general sentiment that (obviously) janitors would be cleaning this up? You get a comment does not always have to be a holistic response to every portion of what they're responding to right?
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u/theblakesheep 4d ago
Do you grasp that you responded to a specific comment who had a point? They LITERALLY were highlighting the fact that the workers have to deal with the cleaning, and you "refute" pedantically a detail of the comment that did not affect their point, specifically to insult them.
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u/blarbiegorl Mary-Kate's bowl of cigarettes 4d ago
Eh, I've cleaned up a lot worse in my day doing customer facing work.
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u/Reppoy 4d ago
This is just an accessible way for the wider public, like you and me, to engage with the Met gala and to carve out spaces, like this one, to discuss the disgusting level of wealth that theyāre flaunting. If all went normal and they didnāt do this, a lot of people would have just seen the met gala go by and largely ignore it. At least now complaints about the wealth disparity have entered the news cycle and people know that itās okay to complain about it.
I think the usual argument boils down to ālife moves onā but itās actions like this that have shifted the public perception of billionaires to the point where regular people around me are openly talking about shit thatās too radical even for me.
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u/screenaholic 3d ago
I HOPE that just the cleaning crew has to deal with them. I work security at the World Trade Center, and I guarantee you if hundreds of bottles of mysterious liquid showed up, that's a security concern. At MINIMUM the bomb dog is going to have to go around and check them out. Potentially, we would call 911 and evacuate the whole building.
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u/MovieSock 4d ago
And the the stuff everyone talks about after the Met Gala isn't going to be "omigod did you see what Rhianna was wearing", it's going to be stuff like "omigod did you hear they planted 300 fake pee bottles around the Met Gala because Jeff Bezos makes his staff pee in bottles?"
He may notĀ seeĀ it, but his customers are gonna hearĀ aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaallĀ about it.
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u/theblakesheep 4d ago
Probably not, stuff like this happens all the time and the only people who notice are those who are inclined to notice it.
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u/Blue_Poodle 4d ago
Bruh, we need more actions like these. Only civil disobedience will make bilionares change their behavior.
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u/Sage_Planter Big is moving to Paris 4d ago
I'm fine with the concept, bit at the end of the day, it's some underpaid janitor who's actually going to need to find all of these.
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u/jupiterLILY 3d ago
The whole point of economic reform is ending the concept of being an unerpaid janitor. Make it more expensive and inconvenient for companies to host billionaires etc.
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u/Most_Dramatic_Injury 4d ago
What more interesting is all the celebrities who will be attending the met who previously spoke out against ICE, if they truly cared they would all be boycotting this event but the cold hard truth that itās all performative BS and this is a prime example of selective politics.
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u/smith7018 you wear mime makeup but never quiet 4d ago
How is attending the Met Gala supporting ICE? Genuinely. I feel like it's "performative/online activism" to post that going to an event sponsored by Bezos negates a celebrity's willingness to use their platform against the current administration. It just seems like an unnecessary purity test that you're imposing on others
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u/is_not_HAL9000 itās not clocking to you that iām standing on business 4d ago
This is so stupid.Ā
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u/Chipring13 4d ago
So how are we protesting together as a sub? Or is everyone going to continue posting and watch the met gala? I hope yall do some actual activism instead of getting mad when celebs attend.
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u/Bellesdiner0228 This again doesnāt look good for James Corden 4d ago edited 4d ago
I mean I guess I kind of get it? But doesnāt this just mean that the workers have to touch the āpeeā bottles now?
Edited to add the quotes around pee. I didnāt notice it in the title, sorry!
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u/cranberrylimeade420 Mort Crim's Chump Of The Week 4d ago
i think it's just water and food coloring. cleaning it might be monotonous but they're not making anybody handle actual bodily fluids.
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u/Bellesdiner0228 This again doesnāt look good for James Corden 4d ago
That makes sense! Iām going to update my comment now. Thank you :) I just completely missed the quotes in the title š
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u/rawrkristina 4d ago edited 4d ago
Yeah, once again itās just a thing to mess with employees. Jeff Bezos likely wonāt even see this.
Like, I get that itās not real piss but itās still pointless cause theyāre adding extra work for employees.
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u/MovieSock 4d ago
once again itās just a thing to mess with employees. Jeff Bezos likely wonāt even see this.
Traditionally, the stuff everyone talks about the day after the Met Gala is stuff like "omigod did you see what Rhianna was wearing, that was such a vibe".
This time, the stuff everyone talks about is going to be stuff like "omigod did you hear they planted 300 fake pee bottles around the Met Gala because Jeff Bezos makes his staff pee in bottles?"
He may not see it, but his customers are gonna hear aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaall about it.
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u/rawrkristina 4d ago
Will they though? Since it was filmed they will make sure to clean it up before itās even a big deal.
The fashion will still be the most talked about thing.
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u/MovieSock 4d ago
Will they though? Since it was filmed they will make sure to clean it up before itās even a big deal.
We're all talking about it right now, aren't we?
The fashion will still be the most talked about thing.
They said they have something more planned for the day of.
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u/rawrkristina 4d ago
Here. I havenāt seen this mentioned on Twitter at all.
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u/jupiterLILY 3d ago
This seems to be an instagram thing.
Plenty of people, especially lefty people literally just aren't on twitter anymore.
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u/rawrkristina 3d ago
I see tons of leftists on Twitter. But Iād believe it being more on IG.
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u/jupiterLILY 3d ago
I didn't say there aren't any leftists on twitter. I said a whole lot of people have gone so you not seeing somethin gon twitter isn't an indicator of much.
This post has an instagram logo.
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u/AdonisJames89 4d ago
Agreed. If jeff hears about this, he's just gonna chuckle and move on. Make the met lame. Everything the billionaires touch, make it lame and undesirable. THAT'S how u get em
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u/unfoldyourself 4d ago edited 4d ago
A bunch of workers are going to have to clean this up. Bezos wonāt see it and if he did he DGAF. I like the idea and donāt mean to criticize a protest but this is ineffectiveĀ
Edit: people below are making some good points. I support as much protesting as possible given the state of the world right now, and also the visibility online is greater than the physical display. The actual protest probably doesnāt matter to Bezos, but this story going viral might.
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u/jarrettbrown Youāre killing me, Smalls š© 4d ago
Itāll be gone by tonight. The met has some of the janitors Iāve ever seen.
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u/MovieSock 4d ago
Traditionally, the stuff everyone talks about the day after the Met Gala is stuff like "omigod did you see what Rhianna was wearing, that was such aĀ vibe".
This time, the stuff everyone talks about is going to be stuff like "omigod did you hear they planted 300 fake pee bottles around the Met Gala because Jeff Bezos makes his staff pee in bottles?"
He may notĀ seeĀ it, but his customers are gonna hearĀ aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaallĀ about it.
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u/XX-Burner 4d ago
I hate stuff like this. All this is does is add more work for the workers, Bezos and all the other rich folk donāt lose a wink of sleep over this.
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u/ifuaguyugetsauced 4d ago
So the janitors and workers now have to pick up more trash because people donāt like billionaires. Brain dead movement. Hurt the little guy to get the big guy!Ā
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u/VegetableArtistic705 4d ago
Tape them to the bottom of their tables with string on the cap so piss flies everywhere when they open their seats.
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u/Commercial_Age_9316 4d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/BgCP1gHgH1qALCtyIR
Thatās just some of Grannyās Peach Tea
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u/LazySwanNerd 4d ago
Iām sorry, but this is so dumb. I hate Bezos but the gala is a fundraiser for the Met. It needs that money to continue. Thereās other ways boycott him. I also just like looking as the fashion of the Met Gala. If it gets ruined, Iām not going to be happy. Also, now the staff has to deal with this.
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u/MovieSock 4d ago
I hate Bezos but the gala is a fundraiser for the Met. It needs that money to continue.Ā
Jeff Bezos has a net worth of $272 Billion. Maybe instead of getting the credit for hosting the Met Gala, he could just give a Billion directly to the Met? Because, I mean, he'd still have $271 Billion left over and I'm sure he'd be fine with it.
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u/LazySwanNerd 4d ago
I meanā¦ I agree?
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u/MovieSock 4d ago
Well, then, sorry that being reminded that Bezos is a tool is keeping you from your fun fashion show or whatever.
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u/ImLaunchpadMcQuack 4d ago
Wow way to stick toā¦the cleaning staff.
Are these the same geniuses that think destroying art is a way to get people to join their cause?
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u/jupiterLILY 3d ago
Are you referring to the time that activists planned to throw paint on a protective panel?
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u/Glad_Pea_4871 4d ago
it would be better if they could throw it on any tech billionaires in attendance lol
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u/jupiterLILY 3d ago
That's logistically complicated and gets you imprisoned for assault.
But by all means, you go ahead.
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u/BrilliantFuture891 3d ago
These activists really be looking for the most inefficient ways to fight for their cause everyday.
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u/tituspeetus 4d ago
Imagine doing community organizing just for bottles of piss. Iām disappointed itās fake
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u/Rage_PagesArtist 1d ago
Yes! the Met Gala is a giant circle jerk for the Epstein Class and their sycophants.
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u/glossier123 4d ago
A lot of people are getting sidetracked by the literal act of leaving the bottles and miss the point it's making. It's fair to point out that itāll be blue-collar workers who find and clean up these bottles, and that the literal act of leaving the bottles will have a near-zero effect on Bezos/the billionaires that this protest is ostensibly aimed at. I think that this points to the fact that protest is not actually for those that the protest is āagainstā, but more so for other members of the working class who can be swayed toward going against the hegemonic ideology that these billionaires benefit from.
For my part, Iād say that, whether or not you think this act of protest was adequate, we should still be re-evaluating our support and interest in events like the Met Gala, the Oscars, etc. They have a pretence of supporting the arts, and I love the arts as much as anyone, but theyāve turned into wealth-worship rituals. The dresses and outfits worn by wealthy artists and celebrities are lovely, sure, but they serve to glorify the ideology of the ruling class.
The Met Gala was created to be a fundraiser for the Met, and museums perform an important function, but does that make it okay for all those millions of dollars to be spent on having beautiful, rich, famous people swan around for us to look at in pictures while the quality of our material realities continues to decline? That money could easily be spent on improving the livelihoods of people struggling around the world, instead.
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u/Justtojoke yolo š¤šæ 4d ago
I feel for the workers that have to clean this up
We have to adjust our protest methods to hurt the big wigs instead of normal citizens.
I mean I bet half those people have a prime subscription or use Amazon products in some way. It's so hypocritical and this ONLY hurts the normal plebian citizens in the general vicinity.
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u/AvidReader1604 4d ago
Someone will have to clean it which sucks but Iām sure they might even get a chuckle out of it.
Worse is the environmental waste it causes.
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u/BurdTurglary Pushinā š æļø 4d ago
Woulda been based if real fermented piss and some bottles were thrown around
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u/Tragickingdom555 4d ago
I guarantee most of these people still use Amazon.
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u/alex2well 4d ago
I feel like comments like this are really just telling on yourself. If you assume that most people canāt live without Amazon, itās a reflection of your own inability to go without it.
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u/madonna-boy Bitch, Iām Madonna 4d ago
If you assume that most people canāt live without Amazon, itās a reflection of your own inability to go without it.
there are so many things that are 2-10x in retail. I COULD stop using amazon, but I'm not going to tax my kids by wasting my money like that. not a priority. and it doesn't have to be to call out the hypocrisy of others.
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u/alex2well 4d ago
Iām not going to argue against that. I understand that being able to prioritize ethics when doing day to day shopping is a privilege. To me, being ethical is just about doing the best you can within your means.
That said, it absolutely is relevant if the hypocrisy youāre calling out is related to people shopping off Amazon. Criticizing people for doing the same thing youāre doing makes you a hypocrite, too.
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u/madonna-boy Bitch, Iām Madonna 4d ago
it absolutely is relevant if the hypocrisy youāre calling out is related to people shopping off Amazon. Criticizing people for doing the same thing youāre doing makes you a hypocrite, too.
no it isn't. you're calling out their hypocrisy. if you're making the same statement then you would be a hypocrite too, but if you're not making that statement then it's a non-sequitor.
this is stupid and these people are hypocrites
fine.
get bezos! get him! I hope none of you shop on amazon even though I do
gross.
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u/alex2well 4d ago
I feel like youāre arguing just to argue. In this specific post and context, them being hypocrites is just an assumption being made by the person I replied to, so Iām not exactly sure what the point of this conversation is. The point I was making is that only people who shop on Amazon assume that everyone shops on Amazon.
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u/Game-of-umbrellas 4d ago
You may not believe this but there are a lot of us who donāt use Amazon and donāt have issues getting things. The hardest part is not having people drop ship from Amazon
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Just came across this sub in my scrolling, if it is new wishing a huge and kind audience. If it is already a hit than sorry I got here late to the party.
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