A group of protesters from the organization Everyone Hates Alone have placed small fake urine bottles at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art and stuck them to Jeff Bezos in the days ahead of Monday’s Met Gala. More traditional protesters were also present at the event on Monday.
According to Fox News, Jeff Bezos avoided the red carpet on Monday and quietly entered the event through a different entrance.
Honorary Chair, Lauren Sanchez Bezos to arrive in 2026 #metgala pic.twitter.com/XIh9Zkoo4y
– Hollywood Reporter (@THR) 4 May 2026
According to a statement posted on Instagram, the explanation for the pee bottles is that, “Jeff Bezos’ company Amazon is being sued for forcing employees to pee in bottles.” There is actually a proposed class action lawsuit in Colorado over alleged “work policies” that require its delivery drivers in Colorado to urinate in bottles in the back of delivery vans, defecate in bags, and, in many cases, restrain themselves from using the bathroom at the risk of serious health consequences. When the lawsuit was announced in 2023, Amazon declined to comment on specifics.
The Met Gala, like the Oscars, started as a dinner for the cultural elite, 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 Ethics Committee will investigate the dress someone wore there.
And now Jeff Bezos, the centibillionaire Amazon founder, and his wife Lauren Sanchez are paying millions of dollars to attend the gala — becoming primary donors and honorary co-chairs of the event this year.
This is obnoxious to anyone who doesn’t reasonably care about the terrible alleged treatment Amazon treats workers and contractors — including sometimes allegedly not allowing enough time to pee in an actual bathroom. This is something that Amazon has denied, but then apologized for the denial.
A good way to draw attention to this might be to hold a protest at one of Amazon’s many physical locations, which people do occasionally. Another way would be to mount a mock protest led by the Bezos-affiliated Met Gala, which in addition to being a festival is also a fund-raiser for the arts — which gives it a convenient, but genuine, veneer of kindness.
There is a message on the fake pee bottles that says “Boycott the Bezos Met Gala”, which I know everyone is doing whether they want to or not because they don’t have the $100,000 it cost to get it. A small note at the bottom of the label says “Relax, it’s just water and food coloring.”
The pee bottle stunt is cute, but it seems it was mainly meant to annoy the people working at the museum. Still, the protesters got their message across, and may have successfully blocked Bezos from entering the red carpet. Plus, it would be hard to pull off a weird stunt protest every time Jeff Bezos parties on the world’s largest sailing yacht, which he owns, and which is so big that it has its own little side-yacht. However there were fresh rumors in the newspapers on Monday that he wanted to sell it because it attracted too much attention. It is possible that someone may have also placed urine bottles in it.
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