The most exciting part of this year’s Met Gala involved a cockroach. The (thankfully) solo creepy-crawly was fashionably late. But not as late as Rihanna and A$AP Rocky, who show up about two hours after most attendees had already arrived at the Metropolitan Museum of Art fundraiser.
The internet celebrated the arrival of the six-legged party-crasher, which is not a normal occurrence. Cockroaches are usually greeted by disgusted screams of “GET RID OF IT”, not cheers from onlookers and a photographer rushing to get its close-up. Once the bug’s inevitable death-by-stamping took place, social media mourned its brief life and paid tribute to its “icon” status.
