If you were on the internet last night and this morning, you’d think a lot of things won the Met Gala: Bella Hadid’s butt, Kendall Jenner’s butt, Cara Delevingne’s hair, Rihanna’s dress.
But let’s be honest here. This is the internet, and only one thing truly wins at the end of a day of celebrities being ridiculous: the memes.
Oh, how there were memes.
(For those of you that don’t know, the Met Gala is a thing where celebrities dress really opulently to impress Anna Wintour, with the winner taking home extra 50-50 raffle tickets.)
(But if you really are out of the loop, each Met Gala has a theme, and the hope is that attendees will dress as fashion-forward as possible. It skews toward ridiculous, which is what makes it such fertile ground for internet mocking.)
We’ll start with the best meme of the night, because it is the best meme of the night.
https://twitter.com/quenblackwell/status/859219995817017347
As you can see, while a broom sticking out of your back might look ridiculous, in the context of crazy Met Gala outfits, it is not that ridiculous, which is what makes this meme ridiculous but also relatable.
Here is someone spoofing Rihanna’s dress.
https://twitter.com/BonganeRay/status/859313819226697728
Rihanna’s Met Gala outfits are often simultaneously universally praised and savagely parodied.
Another meme from the event is this meme.
https://twitter.com/niissh/status/859316303638745088
One Twitter user speculated why all these rich people spent their time in the Met’s decidedly unsexy bathrooms.
When peoples say it's #MetGala event but only you know it's a drug addicts party going on in there. pic.twitter.com/IDKVS0Y5bR
— General Pikalov (मोदीजी का परिवार) (@ChhapriSala) May 2, 2017
Here’s a meme about Kendall Jenner’s dress that I don’t even understand and my job is to get memes.
https://twitter.com/trashboicarti/status/859236978457489414
(Another meme person explained to me that the joke is that she has no butt. I guess that’s an OK meme.)
Some people compared members of the rap group Migos to the Three Blind Mice.
https://twitter.com/taylor_stovall/status/859230239360262145
This meme says everyone would look like they’re part of a video game if they just had swords. We agree.
https://twitter.com/jackdwagner/status/859198812329353216
This isn’t exactly a meme, but here is one celebrity excited to see another celebrity. Celebrities!
https://twitter.com/GIRLposts/status/859231248790827011
Taylor Swift, who last year met Tom Hiddleston at the Met Gala and then broke up with Calvin Harris so she could start dating Tom Hiddleston, did not attend this year. Some people made jokes about that.
https://twitter.com/___YOM_6/status/859177507316256773
Taylor swift serving at the #MetGala 😍😍😍 Kween of 🐍🐍🐍 pic.twitter.com/BzxBzSBKvV
— taylucifer snake (@TayluciferSnake) May 1, 2017
Here's an exclusive image of @taylorswift13 at Met Gala 2017😢
— m (@ShadesOfTaylena) May 2, 2017
And she looked absolutely stunning as always😑 pic.twitter.com/itDmTNhdTF
Lots of people making memes even meme’d themselves, because for as odd as some of these celebrity outfits are, they are still more impressive than anything the average person could pull off.
https://twitter.com/GIRLposts/status/859225873521811457
Sometimes, at the Met Gala, art even imitates memes.
https://twitter.com/hanikhan/status/859213926013087749
This too is a joke about how ridiculous Met Gala outfits are.
This #MetGala outfit was stunning pic.twitter.com/hS17NqCQLZ
— pat tobin (@tastefactory) May 2, 2017
Lol that dog didn’t even go!
So… that is it for the memes of the 2017 Met Gala. Be sure to check back next year for the Met Gala memes of 2018.