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\n\tHundreds of bottles of \u201cwhat appeared to be urine\u201d were found in the Met last night, according to the New York Post<\/em>\u2014which noted that the museum\u2019s starry Met Gala was \u201csoaked in controversy.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cThe shocking stunt\u2014tied to allegations that Amazon warehouse workers feel forced to pee in bottles, rather than take bathroom breaks\u2014comes as backlash over the billionaire\u2019s involvement in the glitzy fundraiser has reached a fever pitch across New York City,\u201d the Post <\/em>reported.<\/p>\n \n\tCredit for the protest was claimed by Everybody Hates Elon, an anti-billionaire group that set its sights on an event that did not lack for billionaires.<\/p>\n \n\tIn a statement on Instagram, the UK-based group said it had left the \u201cpiss bottles\u201d to call attention to how \u201cThe Met Museum is taking the PISS by having Jeff [Bezos] honoured as their Gala host.\u201d Also: \u201cAmazon avoids MILLIONS in tax and Bezos is one of the world\u2019s richest men.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tThe bottles were accompanied by text explaining the protest. \u201cOne particularly inflammatory display labeled a cluster of plastic bottles as a \u2018Met Gala VIP toilet,\u2019 with\u00a0signage reading: \u2018Installed in honor of Met Gala chair Jeff Bezos. Go ahead, it\u2019s good enough for his staff.\u2019\u201d In support of that display, Everybody Hates Elon wrote on Instagram: \u201cIf it\u2019s ok for #MetGala chair Jeff Bezos force his workers to piss in bottles, sure it\u2019s ok to force the Kardashians as well..?\ud83d\udc8b\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tThe group also pointed out, in a footnote to one of its posts: \u201cNot real piss obvs.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/met-gala-protest-jeff-bezos-piss-bottles-1234783989\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-2273058299.jpg?w=1024″] Hundreds of bottles of \u201cwhat appeared to be urine\u201d were found in the Met last night, according to the New York Post\u2014which noted that the museum\u2019s starry Met Gala was \u201csoaked in controversy.\u201d \u201cThe shocking stunt\u2014tied to allegations that Amazon warehouse workers feel forced to pee in bottles, rather than take bathroom […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,226],"class_list":["post-1919690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-artnews-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1919690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1919690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1919690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1919690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}