Celebrities were at it again at the Met Gala on Monday night, embodying this year’s theme: “camp.” Many of those in attendance seem to have outdone even the outlandish looks of the 2018 and 2017 Met Galas. And yes, noted edgelord Jared Leto left the green coat at home and rolled into the Gala with a replica of his own severed head. So extra.
When you finally found a severed head for the shrine and King Paimon appears pic.twitter.com/3IUspumrum
— Tom Zohar (@TomZohar) May 6, 2019
https://twitter.com/jpbrammer/status/1125532163628261377
But it wasn’t just Jared Leto going above and beyond. Lady Gaga stripped down through four different outfit changes, and as one person on Twitter noted, with photo evidence, “Every person at the Met Gala should be a Mortal Kombat character.”
There was even a surprise guest:
go off sis #MetGala pic.twitter.com/LjYrNff41D
— ziwe (@ziwe) May 6, 2019
Which made for a convenient joke about Cardi B’s extravagant, be-feathered dress and train:
https://twitter.com/marcellacomedy/status/1125576516794867712
People made suggestions for who else should have been invited to the campy event:
Best outfit at the Met Gala this year pic.twitter.com/iw9rmMOGiK
— Jules (@Julian_Epp) May 6, 2019
⠀ 🌸 💐
🌺 WHY 🌼
🌷 WASNT 🌸
🌼 TAIKA WAITITI 💐
🌸 AT THE MET GALA 🌺
💐 HE WOULD HAVE 🌻
🌺 UNDERSTOOD 🌷
🌼 THE ASSIGN- 🌸
🌷 MENT 🌺
🌻 💐— jonny sun (@jonnysun) May 7, 2019
https://twitter.com/PAYOLETTER/status/1125535510422872065
Nicolas Cage slays the Met Gala red carpet naked, covered in dog bites, and holding a gun
— pixelatedboat aka “mr tweets” (@pixelatedboat) May 6, 2019
Frank Ocean took some flak for not being particularly campy:
me when coat check wants to charge five WHOLE dollars pic.twitter.com/Jb5rJS2orP
— Desus MF Nice💯 (@desusnice) May 6, 2019
While others argued that the celebrities shouldn’t find out what the theme’s going to be until the day of:
https://twitter.com/pattymo/status/1125527891326984192
And there were inevitable references to Oceans 8:
I can’t believe they’re even holding the Met Gala again after Daphne Kluger’s necklace disappeared right off her NECK last year
— AB (@AlannaBennett) May 6, 2019
But most of the jokes made on Twitter were about this year’s “camp” theme:
Celine Dion is talking to E! right now about how she didn't understand what the word camp meant, which is perfect, because she is it in every moment of her life. Celine Dion eating toast is camp. Celine Dion holding a shoe to her face, Celine Dion biting the face off mannequins —
— AB (@AlannaBennett) May 6, 2019
still not exactly sure what the Met Gala is but v strongly believe the theme should've been When Harry Met Gala
— Karen Chee (@karencheee) May 6, 2019
https://twitter.com/Cryptoterra/status/1125577854140313600
"Here it is: camp!" -hot straight guy with one mesh sleeve
— Louis Virtel (@louisvirtel) May 7, 2019
Frantically power-walking on Broadway, my eyes blood shot, pointing to people, buildings, objects, shrieking “CAMP” / “NOT CAMP”
— George Civeris (@georgeciveris) May 6, 2019
https://twitter.com/e_alexjung/status/1125517009746374659
https://twitter.com/aBeautifullife_/status/1125542012646776832
THE THEME FOR THIS YEAR’S MET GALA IS TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE
— John Early (@bejohnce) May 6, 2019
Congrats to everyone at the Met Gala for nailing the theme of “rich people who’ll be safe in an underground bunker while the rest of us are killing and eating each other in the Climate Wars”
— pixelatedboat aka “mr tweets” (@pixelatedboat) May 7, 2019
Well, that last one got depressing. It’s probably best to just enjoy the show and not think about how many years of pay it would take us to buy some of these outfits.
Every year a bunch of celebrities go to the Met Gala dressed as wind chimes or whatever and we all tweet "INCREDIBLE" while we try to figure out how to get health insurance
— Dan Sheehan (@ItsDanSheehan) May 6, 2019
https://twitter.com/briarhoes/status/1125602823914369025
https://twitter.com/Bro_Pair/status/1125565127661473792
https://twitter.com/sapphirestoned/status/1125611786433191936
https://twitter.com/anne_boyer/status/1125673980550111232
the met gala is the super bowl for the girls n gays
— little my (@humangirrl) May 6, 2019