A group of protesters from an organization called Everyone Hates Elon has taken it up on Jeff Bezos by planting small fake urine bottles at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art in the days leading up to Monday’s Met Gala. On Monday, at the event itself, there was More traditional protesters too..
According to Fox NewsJeff Bezos avoided the red carpet on Monday and quietly entered the event through another entrance.
The honorary president, Lauren Sánchez Bezos, arrives in 2026 #MetGala pic.twitter.com/XIh9Zkoo4y
– The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) May 4, 2026
The explanation for the urine bottles, according to a statement posted on Instagram, is that “Jeff Bezos’ company Amazon is literally being sued for forcing workers to urinate in bottles.” In fact there is a proposed class action lawsuit in Colorado for alleged “labor policies that require their delivery drivers in Colorado to urinate in bottles in the back of delivery vans, defecate in bags, and, in many cases, refrain from using the bathroom at the risk of serious health consequences.” When the lawsuit was announced in 2023, Amazon declined to comment on the details..
The Met Gala, like the Oscars, began as a dinner for cultural elites and then got out of hand. Now you can cause an international incident by not knowing who someone is at the Met Gala and the House of Representatives ethics committee will investigate a dress that someone wears there.
And now Jeff Bezos, the centibillionaire founder of Amazon, and his wife Lauren Sánchez pay millions of dollars to associate with the Gala—this year they will become the main donors and honorary co-chairs of the event.
This is unpleasant for anyone who does not reasonably care about Amazon’s appalling alleged treatment of workers and contractors—even sometimes supposedly not allowing adequate time to urinate in royal toilets. It’s something that Amazon has. deniedbut then He ended by apologizing for the denial..
A good way to draw attention to this could be to protest at one of Amazon’s many physical locations, what people sometimes do. Another way would be to organize a fun protest in the run-up to the Bezos-affiliated Met Gala, which, in addition to being a gala, is also a fundraising event for the arts, giving it a convenient but real veneer of goodness.
The fake urine bottles have a message that says “Boycott Bezos’ Met Gala,” which everyone I know is doing whether they want to or not, since they simply don’t have the $100,000 costs to enter. A smaller note at the bottom of the label says “Relax, it’s just water and food coloring.”
The urine bottle trick is cute, but it seems like it was mostly annoying to the people who work at the museum. Still, the protesters spread their message and may have managed to dissuade Bezos from making his red carpet entrance. Plus, it would be hard to make a funny rant every time Jeff Bezos throws a party on the world’s largest sailing yacht, which he owns and is so big it has its own side yacht. Although new rumors circulated in the tabloids on Monday that he wants to sell it because draws too much attention. Maybe someone put urine bottles there too.
