Unfortunately , this fib does n’t have a happy ending .

TheMet Galais all about frivolous celebrity excess and glamour!

Celebrities wear crazy expensive pieces of couture, and we’re left sitting on our couches eating Fritos judging the hell out of them thinking we’reJoan RiversonFashion Police.

This year, a surprise guest crashed the party, and that surprise guest was a cockroach.

Yes, a cockroach.

That cockroach at the#MetGalaservedpic.twitter.com / DfQXmyQc6 T

That cockroach surprised guests when it sashayed up those museum steps.

A roach has arrived at the#MetGala.https://t.co / OcPy5ckhQNpic.twitter.com/4YiEPs5cIT

They literally became the moment.

A cockroach slays on the Met Gala reddish carpetpic.twitter.com/eN2CdtGIIE

Like, they got more coverage than celebs.

cockroach getting more coverage than some of the celebrity that go far at tonight’s#MetGalapic.twitter.com/1RV01PmILh

Just look at all those cameras for a roach!

The Cut even called them “the real star of the Met Gala.”

The real superstar of the#MetGalared carpet : cockroachpic.twitter.com/1C3JZQg63 T

Then, it obviously became a meme.

the cockroach enjoying a meal at the#MetGalapic.twitter.com / dOZqsWECaG

the cockroach on its way to the met galapic.twitter.com/qKgdR7kLZN

shut up of the foregather gala roachpic.twitter.com/oxpROij7s8

Gisele Bundchen at the Met Gala

Someone even started a Twitter account because apparently people are still doing that in 2023.

i was invited bitchhttps://t.co/vyu7PNjCm3

Unfortunately, all good things come to an end, and the roach was killed.

I ’m going to need a mo to process this - gone WAY too presently

Its life was brief but impactful.

buy a 40 today and stream some out for the met gala roach

Gone but never forgotten.

the met gala cockroach made more noise than the whole met galapic.twitter.com/1BJfGzqz3 G

RIP, sweet angel.

THE roach AT MET GALA 🗣 ️pic.twitter.com/YP10FbaxAR

Ashley Graham at the Met Gala

Closeup of Kim Kardashian

People taking photos at the Met Gala