TikTok star ignites massive celebrity blocking movement after the met gala

[milotic2]

‘Let them eat cake.’ Why people are blocking celebrities on TikTok after the Met Gala https://t.co/bjCFL1LvnW
- Miami Herald (@MiamiHerald) May 9, 2024
A TikTok star named Hailey Bailey attended the recently past met gala, uploading a TikTok video of her night while showing her over-the-top look at the Met Gala lip-synching to an audio of Sofia

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[bulusa]

out of everything to get up in arms over...

[lauren901]

I feel like the Met this year really got people mad and angry all over again

[xbriyeon]

there was a pro-palestine protest right outside dude

literal hunger games vs the capitol in their funky fashion

it's dystopian as hell

[bulusa]

ok i don't pay attention to the met gala or this influencer so i'm just going by what was said in this post, sorry. also making a hunger games analogy is just confusing me more bc i don't watch that show. i thought they were just mad bc an influencer dressed similarly to marie antoinette said let them eat cake.

[misscrystal25]

"I'm just an ignorant baby wahhhhhh"

[feitality]

Unlike the Capitol, the Met Gala is not the root of the problem, in fact, it's a fundraiser for the arts, something that's often underfunded. We can have both the Met Gala and support for Palestine.

That being said, I agree with boycotting A listers who are staying quiet about a genocide.

Edit: People have pointed out this display of luxury is not needed to fund arts in a time of economic inequality like never before in the US. It's not only about Palestine then.

[justleilah]

It's apparently also a huge money making venture for Vogue now as well, especially since print magazines are not the lucrative luxury publications they used to be. No idea what the Met takes in in fundraising but it's a massive cash cow and PR/attention-getting spectacle above all. But to your point, it's obviously a huge injection for the Met, and it's a massive profile event for designers, so there's some good (albeit gatekept by the ultra rich) coming from it.

Here's a good piece of a few out there on this: https://www.nssmag.com/en/fashion/29716/vogue-profits-met-gala.

[asnindie]

Talk about not seeing the deeper issue.

[misscrystal25]

That's a really casual way to dismiss genocide.

[bulusa]

I don't know what the connection is between this and the genocide. I can do more research I guess but from reading this post it seems like it's about wealth inequality