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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Derek Guy (known also as "the menswear guy" on ex-Twitter) pitching in regarding the Met Gala discourse and Hunger Games comparisons.
Posted by DatBittsch
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I’ll be crucified for this, but people commenting “eat the rich” on Reddit Met Gala threads is also kinda ironic? They’re just driving up the value of Reddit as a platform and as a data source for AI companies while helping Reddit pay their AWS bills.
It’s the pageantry of it all that gets people riled up I think. Aside from it being a fundraiser, which is good, it’s kinda just all one big advertisement at the end of the day. Visibility for brands and individuals. I get why people are sick of seeing stuff like this, but no one’s forcing you to look really. Most people probably have no clue what the Met Gala is. Plenty do and just don’t engage
This is a bad take. Tech-bros didn’t purchase themselves an Academy nomination nor did they buy themselves a starting position in one of the Super Bowl teams. Bezos bought himself and his wife an entire event.
Both Oscars and SB deserve their fair share of criticism, but the Met Gala criticism is in its own category.
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 🤷♀️
“I have deduced through my infinite insight that people compare the two things with the silly outfits”
Wow. How does he do it?
crazy to compare the met gala to the hunger games when the Kentucky Derby is right there
we talking on Reddit about boycotting this boycotting that, then we judged, posted, commented every single outfit while shouting YASSS KWEEEEN at Beyoncé or Rihanna.
The whole panem et circens is real, people just don’t care
anyway he’s right. everyone is ignoring his actual point, which is that fashion as an art form and indeed all art is seen as frivolous and stupid and wasteful and something only silly little girls care about while shit like the superbowl gets seen as this big Actually Important cultural event. you’ll have leftists shit on the met gala and then argue that the Superbowl is good because the halftime event was in Spanish this year, completely ignoring the overwhelming right wing lean present in every single aspect of the sport
yeah no shit bezos being involved deserves criticism. duh. fucking duh. plenty of people are criticizing that. loudly. however the point he’s making is clearly about the misogyny involved here from all sides, because every side of the political spectrum hates women and thinks they’re stupid 🖤