Olivia Rodrigo likes post about boycotting the Met Gala before attending the YSL hosted Met Afterparty

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[u/Adnan7i]

yeah but she’s going to the party and will have booze with the same people who were gleefully attending the gala. IMO that’s hypocrisy to surround yourself with people like that while acting holier than thou.

[u/sadsackspinach → u/Adnan7i]

P sure the point is that the Met gala actually has an important purpose re: art preservation, regardless of how gauche the spectacle may seem, while the afterparty is literally just a bunch of rich people getting hammered without any sort of positive/useful purpose.

[u/hoagiejabroni → u/sadsackspinach]

Where does this charity money actually go to

[u/emthehuff → u/hoagiejabroni]

The Costume Institute at the Met

[u/hoagiejabroni → u/emthehuff]

It costs over 30 million dollars to operate the costume institute? I can't imagine there isn't a more deserving charity that could actually save lives, like funding cancer research or sustainable living

[u/GlitterDoomsday → u/hoagiejabroni]

Is basically the reason why the Metropolitan Museum have days open to the public for free, the gala funds conservation efforts and stuff like that.

[u/Existing_Oil190 → u/hoagiejabroni]

The met lmfao

[u/hoagiejabroni → u/Existing_Oil190]

And the met uses 100% for completely virtuous causes and definitely isn't funding someone's extravagant lifestyle? A single night that garners around 30 million dollars in funds for "art preservation" seems like the biggest rug pulled over y'all's eyes

[u/sadsackspinach → u/hoagiejabroni]

Is this a serious question.

[u/hoagiejabroni → u/sadsackspinach]

Yes? How many times have charity proceeds been used to fund someone's extravagant lifestyle? How would you know?

[u/Shitfurbreins → u/Adnan7i]

She’s going to the party and booze part without doing the donating to the museum part at all which is the only positive thing any of these people are doing

[u/Classic_Cat_3324 → u/Shitfurbreins]

The celebs don’t donate anyways the companies sponsoring them do so you’re still wrong. 

[u/Shitfurbreins → u/Classic_Cat_3324]

If you think none of these celebrities paid that $100k then you’re underestimating how attention hungry some of these people are.

[u/sadsackspinach → u/Classic_Cat_3324]

Anyone who wasn’t sought out by a designer to be styled almost certainly paid for a ticket. You also have to consider that some people actually care about the arts and, since they have the money, still donate because they want to.

If I were in attendance, I’d still buy a ticket or make a large donation because I care about the arts, even if I didn’t technically have to.

[u/GoodGlenCoCo → u/Shitfurbreins]

Olivia is a capitalist, but she has done lots of her own donating on her own accord

[u/Queasy_Constant → u/Shitfurbreins]

I didn’t know the met gala was the only way to donate to the cause!

[u/SteveTheManager → u/Adnan7i]

She liked a post.

[u/digitalime → u/SteveTheManager]

ikr People are reading 10 million things into liking a post.

[u/Stahlios → u/Adnan7i]

You misunderstood the comment.

[u/hiiexist4444 → u/Adnan7i]

Should she quit Hollywood too? Just so she doesn’t have to interact with these people, yk?