A gaggle of protesters from a corporation known as Everybody Hates Elon have caught it to Jeff Bezos by planting little pretend pee bottles within the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork in New York within the days earlier than Monday’s Met Gala. Monday, on the occasion itself, there have been more traditional protesters as well.
According to Fox News, Jeff Bezos prevented the crimson carpet on Monday and quietly went contained in the occasion through another entrance.
Honorary Chair, Lauren Sánchez Bezos arrives on the 2026 #MetGala pic.twitter.com/XIh9Zkoo4y
— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) May 4, 2026
The reason for the pee bottles, in keeping with an announcement posted on Instagram is that, “Jeff Bezos’s firm Amazon is actually being sued for forcing staff to urinate in bottles.” There’s certainly a proposed class action suit in Colorado over alleged “work insurance policies that require its supply drivers in Colorado to urinate in bottles at the back of supply vans, defecate in baggage, and, in lots of circumstances, to restrain themselves from utilizing the toilet vulnerable to critical well being penalties.” When the swimsuit was introduced in 2023, Amazon declined to comment on the specifics.
The Met Gala, just like the Oscars, began as a dinner for cultural elites, after which received out of hand. Now you may spark an international incident by not knowing who someone is on the Met Gala, and the Home Ethics committee will investigate a dress someone wears there.
And now Jeff Bezos, the centibillionaire Amazon founder, and his spouse Lauren Sanchez pay millions of dollars to be associated with the Gala—this yr changing into the first donors and honorary co-chairs of the event.
That’s disagreeable for anybody who fairly doesn’t look after Amazon’s gruesome alleged treatment of workers and contractors—together with generally allegedly not allowing adequate time to pee in actual bathrooms. It’s one thing Amazon has denied, however then it ended up apologizing for the denial.
A great way to attract consideration to this is likely to be to protest at one among Amazon’s many bodily places, which people sometimes do. One other method could be to stage a humorous protest within the lead-up to the Bezos-affiliated Met Gala, which, along with being a gala can also be a fundraising occasion for the humanities—which supplies it a handy, however actual, veneer of kindness.
The pretend pee bottles have a message on them that claims “Boycott the Bezos Met Gala,” which everybody I do know is doing whether or not they wish to or not since they simply don’t have the $100,000 it costs to get in. A smaller observe on the backside of the label says “Calm down, it’s simply water and meals coloring.”
The pee bottle stunt is cute, however looks as if it was primarily simply annoying for individuals who work on the museum. Nonetheless, the protesters received their message out, they usually might have efficiently put Bezos off of constructing a crimson carpet entrance. Plus it might be arduous to do a humorous stunt protest each time Jeff Bezos has a celebration on the most important crusing yacht on the earth, which he owns, and which is so big it has its own little side-yacht. Although there have been contemporary rumors going round within the tabloids Monday that he desires to promote that as a result of it attracts too much attention. Possibly somebody planted pee bottles in that too.
