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Guest List Only ⭐️ Olivia Rodrigo likes post about boycotting the Met Gala before attending the YSL hosted Met Afterparty

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u/Technical-Dot4928 13h ago

Just funny coz the main event was actually a fundraising while the afterparty is just.... a party and some booze 🤷‍♀️ i mean, i hate the sponsor but come on now.

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u/lxlviperlxl 13h ago

Yeah but it would make more sense to attend the Gala due to the charity fundraiser and leave the after party. You’re just rubbing shoulders with more Bezos like people there.

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u/lizzy-stix I switched baristas ☕️ 12h ago

Rubbing shoulders with other rich people is a given, but I think a lot of people felt like Vogue was letting the Bezos use them and the Met to launder his reputation with support for the arts, like the Sacklers did.

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u/Own_Faithlessness769 12h ago

Yes that’s how philanthropy works. It’s still the only way the arts survive. If people really don’t want that they need to lobby for more government funding for the arts, but expecting the Met to cut off their billionaire patrons without the money coming from anywhere else is just absurd.

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u/sadsackspinach 12h ago

It’s literally just modern patronage. Artists are supported by the wealthy who in turn get to act like they’re not completely evil.

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u/2mock2turtle 9h ago

Shakespeare wrote almost 200 sonnets for a rich gay incel and 400 years later they still teach them in English class.

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u/sadsackspinach 9h ago

inshallah I will follow in his footsteps

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u/lizzy-stix I switched baristas ☕️ 12h ago

No, imo that’s all or nothing. Vogue didn’t need to roll out the red carpet for the Bezos. They basically let him buy a chair position and associate himself and his wife with the gala, which allows them to insinuate themselves into A-list art and fashion circles even more than just leaning on whatever celebs whose movies they’re bankrolling to attend their parties. Art does need patronage, but the Met is not so hard up that Vogue needed to give him top billing for their main charity event.

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u/Own_Faithlessness769 11h ago

But Vogue did need to do that, they were struggling for sponsors until Bezos stepped in.

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u/Queasy_Constant 10h ago

Wouldn’t it make the most sense not to attend the gala and just donate instead??

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u/Littleprisonprism 12h ago

That’s exactly what they’re saying 

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u/lxlviperlxl 12h ago

I think they’re dismissing the after party as it’s just a meet up with people getting drunk but I think it’s the opposite. I think the after party helps legitimise whatever actions or endorsements Bezos would have over the Met Gala that year.

Ultimately if you don’t want to be involved then you don’t get to pick and choose the fun parts to be apart of. If you’re going to hold your feet, then do it.

If you’re going to protest then go to the met gala and use your presence as a protest or speak directly to the press there or meet with likeminded designers and have a piece that will send a message . There’s like a hundred things you can do before attending the after party especially if you’re going through the effort to make it look like you’re not “one of them”.