{"id":53898,"date":"2026-05-02T12:08:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T12:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/53898\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T12:08:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T12:08:15","slug":"met-gala-protest-group-warns-theres-more-to-come-after-bezos-urine-stunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/53898\/","title":{"rendered":"Met Gala protest group warns there&#8217;s &#8216;more to come&#8217; after Bezos urine stunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"bezos\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"810\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/5f5f33b7e25f6391999515e7439b4496.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Everyone Hates Elon is the anti-billionaire group behind the posters protesting the Met Gala -Credit:Reach Publishing Services Limited<\/p>\n<p> (Reach Publishing Services Limited)<\/p>\n<p>The group behind the viral anti-Met Gala protests popping up around New York City have teased that they have more planned before the star-studded event next week.<\/p>\n<p>Calls to boycott one of the biggest nights in fashion started when it was announced that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themirror.com\/all-about\/jeff-bezos\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Jeff Bezos;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">Jeff Bezos<\/a> and his wife, Lauren S\u00e1nchez Bezos, were named honorable co-chairs of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themirror.com\/all-about\/met-gala\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:the event;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">the event <\/a>this year after they donated a hefty sum. Bezos, 62, has been slammed for a multitude of reasons, including the treatment of Amazon warehouse workers and providing cloud databases that the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) uses.<\/p>\n<p>A founder of the Instagram account &#8220;EveryoneHatesElon&#8221; spoke exclusively to The Mirror US about why the group decided to target the Met Gala. The UK-based activist group is<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\/entertainment\/boycott-met-gala-posters-appear-161939400.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:behind recent protest posters;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\"> behind recent protest posters<\/a> that have popped up around New York City ahead of the event and most recently placed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\/entertainment\/jeff-bezos-trolled-bottles-urine-152125031.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:miniature bottles of &quot;urine&quot; around the Metropolitan Museum of Art;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">miniature bottles of &#8220;urine&#8221; around the Metropolitan Museum of Art<\/a> to protest Amazon worker conditions.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\/entertainment\/melania-trump-breaks-protocol-inappropriate-011748703.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Melania Trump breaks protocol with &#039;inappropriate&#039; pink gown for state dinner;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">Melania Trump breaks protocol with &#8216;inappropriate&#8217; pink gown for state dinner<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\/entertainment\/60-minutes-viewers-rip-donald-121018104.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:60 Minutes viewers rip into Donald Trump as he&#039;s accused of &#039;wearing adult diaper&#039;;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">60 Minutes viewers rip into Donald Trump as he&#8217;s accused of &#8216;wearing adult diaper&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s obviously a really iconic event that everyone talks about, for what, for the next kind of month, or the, you know, the last few weeks and then the next few weeks,&#8221; The woman, who will be referred to as Jane for anonymity, said.<\/p>\n<p>Jane added, &#8220;We expected a big response. I guess I&#8217;ve been, still been impressed, in terms of, you know, people are talking about prices going up and going down on tickets. And, you know, the talk of a boycott is spreading. So definitely been, you know, it&#8217;s been really great to see, but I&#8217;m not totally surprised, no, because I think people are really angry. And obviously, this is a really iconic event that lots of people are interested in.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"boycott met gala posters\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"810\" height=\"539\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ea53a6c8e9d58f7d2aaf2a3c0239acf6.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The group put up posters around New York City -Credit:Everyone Hates Elon \/ SWNS<\/p>\n<p>But the group isn&#8217;t done yet. Jane was coy about the upcoming protests the group are planning for May 4. &#8220;Obviously, we tend to break quite a few rules, and so we can&#8217;t really say always what that is.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She added, &#8220;And so, you know, we try and be mischievous, cheeky, you know, angry, but also a bit funny. And so we kind of play with those things, but definitely lots more to come.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Bezos\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"810\" height=\"539\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/9646cc57492b4db12dc0eb02e003b7ff.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Jeff Bezos and his wife Lauren S\u00e1nchez Bezos are honorary Met Gala co-chairs -Credit:Evan Agostini\/Invision\/AP<\/p>\n<p>Jane also didn&#8217;t mince words when it came to why the group chose to target the Amazon founder. &#8220;Jeff Bezos gave, what, $75 million or something for Melania Trump&#8217;s film?&#8221; she said, noting the price Amazon paid for the rights to the first lady&#8217;s documentary, Melania.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it&#8217;s very clear why he&#8217;s doing things like that is to curry favor with [Donald] Trump. And I think that makes what Trump does possible,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;So if you add that to the fact that, you know, Bezos is also avoiding a huge amount of tax and treating his workers like garbage, some would say, you know, it makes for quite a compelling case of why to target Jeff Bezos.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Fake urine protest\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"810\" height=\"539\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/90e2327af1edaad90842f3516299cf1b.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The group put small bottles of &#8216;urine&#8217; around the Met -Credit:Everyone Hates Elon<\/p>\n<p>On April 30, the group placed minuscule bottles featuring a picture of a laughing Bezos around the Metropolitan Museum of Art, each reading, &#8220;Boycott the Bezos Met Gala.&#8221; Inside the bottles was a yellow liquid designed to look like urine, but it was actually just food coloring and water.<\/p>\n<p>The stunt was referencing claims that Amazon delivery workers have had to pee in bottles during their delivery runs as they allegedly aren&#8217;t allowed to stray from their delivery routes or stop for more than five minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqBwgKMNaI0wswpaTqAw?ceid=GB%3Aen&amp;oc=3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">here<\/a> to follow the Mirror US on Google News to stay up to date with all the latest news, sports, and entertainment stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Everyone Hates Elon is the anti-billionaire group behind the posters protesting the Met Gala -Credit:Reach Publishing Services Limited&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[1923,205,12,734,12533,973,7541,560],"class_list":{"0":"post-53898","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jeff-bezos","8":"tag-activist-group","9":"tag-amazon","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-jeff-bezos","12":"tag-lauren-sanchez-bezos","13":"tag-melania-trump","14":"tag-met-gala","15":"tag-new-york-city"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116504907205883579","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}