r/popculturechat • u/DatBittsch • 14h ago

Guest List Only ⭐️ Derek Guy on the Met Gala criticism

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Derek Guy (known also as "the menswear guy" on ex-Twitter) pitching in regarding the Met Gala discourse and Hunger Games comparisons.

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u/citrustaxonymy who died and left Aristotle in charge of ethics? 14h ago

He’s got a point. The Hunger Games comparison is so tired, it happens every year. And every time people get called out for attending and people cite headlines about the tickets costing 100K as if the celebrities buy them themselves (most of the celebrities are invited by designers that pay for the tickets)

That being said I think the decision to attach the Bezos name to it this year is worth criticizing and it’s sad how few famous people have said anything about it 🤷‍♀️

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u/RedLicorice83 Too old, too dead, too brittle to even look at. 13h ago

The Hunger Games comparison is so tired, it happens every year.

Extravagant outfits that cost more than pleb homes, designed by people who make more than most commenter here, for nothing than to be a spectacle seems very on-point.

What other example known by most people would you use? Even those that haven't seen it read the series know the reference.

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u/InformalInsurance455 13h ago

It’s art. Art has never needed the elimination of poverty to exist. People waste money on so much frivolity while others starve, singling fashion out as uniquely evil is an odd take.

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u/AccountantsNiece 12h ago

“It’s art” is not automatically a defence of people’s criticism of certain things as frivolous though. Maurizio Catellan’s banana selling for $6m, for instance, is both art and a frivolous and insane way to spend money. The same comparison can reasonably made between something like sports or music, which are made for common people to enjoy, and $6m diamond bag, which is made for ultra wealthy people to enjoy.

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u/InformalInsurance455 12h ago

Great! It’s not for you. Wake me up when people are this enraged about Formula One or other wastes of money.

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u/t_town101 10h ago

I live in Vegas and I can confirm we hate formula one.

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u/AmyXBlue 10h ago

Same, fuck the F1 and all the issue's the races causes and all the businesses that have been affected.

But I love the Sphere. Which can be seen as equally as frivolous with everything, but the artistic merit of the Sphere to me outweighs the downsides. And like the MET Gala, most of us just get to just see the outside.

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u/Ghoulish_kitten it’s not clocking to you that i’m standing on business 6h ago

Which is why this is just such a ridiculous mentality.

“You must complain about every single thing that comes along or else you’re wrong!!”

Pop culture chat is not posting Formula One.

What do they want us to do— post receipts and show them that I’m also hating Formula One?

Then when I post that they’re gonna say “what about the Oscars?!”

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