Addison Rae & Emma Chamberlain among influencers facing Met Gala invite backlash Instagram: emmachamberlain, addisonraeeThe 2021 Met Gala will take place this September with a focus on American fashion \u2014 and despite fans being desperate for a massive fashion fiesta, they\u2019re not happy about the event\u2019s rumored guest list. The Met Gala is one of the biggest celebrity events of the year. The annual fundraiser brings together A-List stars from all across the arts to dress up in their best finery, always designed around a central theme. From 2018\u2019s \u2018Heavenly Bodies\u2019 to 2019\u2019s \u2018Camp,\u2019 the Met Gala has given us some iconic looks that aren\u2019t falling out of the public consciousness anytime soon\u2026 but some fashion fans are concerned that the Gala is losing its reputation as a high-class affair. In 2019, several social media stars attended the Met Gala, Liza Koshy and James Charles among them. These influencers were met with harsh backlash from critics, who felt that the YouTubers weren\u2019t famous enough to earn a spot at the prestigious event. It seems this pattern is repeating itself in 2021, after the Met Gala was canceled in 2020 due to global health concerns. This year, the Gala\u2019s theme is American fashion \u2014 and it\u2019s purportedly including some online talent in its troupe. While the Gala does not comment on their guest list prior to the event, as The Costume Institute\u2019s Chief External Relations Officer recently told PageSix, it seems that several leaks have surfaced claiming that TikTok star Addison Rae and YouTuber Emma Chamberlain are among the invitees. A celebrity agent also told PageSix that a slew of other influencers are purportedly attending, which seems to track with the fact that Instagram and Facebook are sponsoring the Gala. Both Rae and Chamberlain have yet to comment on their potential inclusion in the event, but that isn\u2019t stopping commenters from brutally berating them for being invited to the Gala. \u201cI\u2019m just gonna say it, no one wants to see Addison Rae at the met gala,\u201d one commenter tweeted. I\u2019m just gonna say it, no one wants to see Addison Rae at the met gala https:\/\/t.co\/iJ3nFUa6T2 \u2014 Jen\ud83d\udc97 (@jenna_lang13) August 18, 2021 \u201cDoja Cat is not invited to the met gala but addison rae is??\u201d another wrote. \u201cWHATT!\u201d https:\/\/twitter.com\/tiniebeeb\/status\/1428083440503635976 \u201cIsn\u2019t the met gala meant for art?\u201d another user questioned. \u201cLike a lot of these I get, but Addison Rae? Emma Chamberlain? Are they going to do some dance and wear vaguely thematically related Brandy Melville?\u201d https:\/\/twitter.com\/tiniebeeb\/status\/1428083440503635976 It\u2019s clear that viewers aren\u2019t looking forward to seeing more and more influencers taking up spots at an event historically relegated to major celebrities \u2014 but as more and more social media moguls break into the mainstream, this could become a trend we see more often in the future, whether we like it or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Addison Rae & Emma Chamberlain among influencers facing Met Gala invite backlash Instagram: emmachamberlain, addisonraeeThe 2021 Met Gala will take place this September with a focus on American fashion \u2014 and despite fans being desperate for a massive fashion fiesta, they\u2019re not happy about the event\u2019s rumored guest list. The Met Gala is one of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}