Why the hell does the Met Gala have a ‘no selfie’ policy?

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Have you read the news this morning? Not just the latest tech news, or the news about Andrew Jackson being, in fact, dead at the time of the Civil War, but the news about the Met Gala and the rules that were broken there?

If not, here’s what you need to know: Kylie Jenner, the 19-year-old ruler of a vast cosmetics empire and the youngest of the Kardashian clan, broke the Met Gala’s “no selfie” rule.

She did so by taking a photo of friends, family, Brie Larson (who stumbled in by accident), and, surprisingly, a smiling Frank Ocean. More specifically, she did so by pointing a phone camera into a mirror — the traditional definition of a selfie and, at the Met Gala, the traditional definition of terrible behavior.

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