--- title: Beyonce Gave the Internet the Most Divine Met Gala 2018 Meme description: Beyonce didn't even have to show up to the 2018 Met Gala to give us the most divine meme. canonical: https://time.com/5269184/beyonce-met-gala-2018-2/ author: Ashley Hoffman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-05-08T11:34:21.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:52:43.067Z og:title: Beyonce Gave Us a Divine Meme by Skipping the Met Gala og:description: She was there in spirit og:url: https://time.com/5269184/beyonce-met-gala-2018-2/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5c06ec592f28ed35/698898ccab6d77025c6aa28a/beyonce-met-gala.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: "Manus x Machina: Fashion In An Age Of Technology" Costume Institute Gala og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Beyonce Gave Us a Divine Meme by Skipping the Met Gala twitter:description: She was there in spirit twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5c06ec592f28ed35/698898ccab6d77025c6aa28a/beyonce-met-gala.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Beyoncé Gave the Internet the Most Divine Meme by Skipping the 2018 Met Gala > Sponsored content. 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(Photo by Mike Coppola/Getty Images for People.com) Beyonce attends the "Manus x Machina: Fashion In An Age Of Technology" Costume Institute Gala at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 2, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by Mike Coppola/Getty Images for People.com) Mike Coppola — Getty Images by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman May 8, 2018 11:34 AM UTC Even in her absence, the internet felt Beyoncé’s presence at the [2018 Met Gala](http://time.com/5256466/met-gala-2018-details-theme-date/). You couldn’t take a step on the 2018 Met Gala red carpet without rubbing shoulders with a major player on Monday at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. There was [Rihanna dressed in her bedazzled Pope topper](http://time.com/5257694/rihanna-met-gala-dress-pope-2018/), and here was [Jared Leto channeling the coming of Christ](http://time.com/5268716/jared-leto-met-gala-2018/). Exciting though they were, Beyoncé’s highly anticipated arrival never happened, and she was sorely missed. But leave it to the internet to praise the “appearance” of her “holy ghost” anyway. After all, the [2018 Met Gala theme was Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination](http://time.com/5263190/catholicism-and-fashion-moments/) so it makes sense. Fans shared images of absolutely no one on the carpet to recognize that if she wasn’t there in body, she most certainly had arrived in spirit. Some even proclaimed she was the best dressed. Beyoncé skipped the 2017 Met Gala as well after announcing she was pregnant with her twins. She kicks off her “On the Run” world stadium tour with her husband Jay-Z on June 5, Cardiff, U.K. See a selection of the Beyoncé Met Gala ghost memes below. > [](https://twitter.com/ChenelynMercad0/status/993661982564802560) > [](https://twitter.com/TheYonceNews/status/993650502033461248) > [](https://twitter.com/DRlPPINSWAGU/status/993644852175949824) > [](https://twitter.com/DiaryOfKeysus/status/993717551740981248) > [](https://twitter.com/nycyonce/status/993736217702301696) > [](https://twitter.com/lindophiri05/status/993723916379181056) > [](https://twitter.com/iCONtips/status/993716261761695744) > [](https://twitter.com/Prince%5Fvirgo914/status/993685782102773761) > [](https://twitter.com/anthrosa21/status/993668581798932481) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5269184/beyonce-met-gala-2018-2/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5269184/beyonce-met-gala-2018-2/"},"headline":"Beyoncé Gave the Internet the Most Divine Meme by Skipping the 2018 Met Gala","datePublished":"2018-05-08T11:34:21.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:52:43.067Z","description":"She was there in spirit","url":"https://time.com/5269184/beyonce-met-gala-2018-2/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5c06ec592f28ed35/698898ccab6d77025c6aa28a/beyonce-met-gala.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ashley Hoffman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5c06ec592f28ed35/698898ccab6d77025c6aa28a/beyonce-met-gala.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"\"Manus x Machina: Fashion In An Age Of Technology\" Costume Institute Gala","caption":"\"Manus x Machina: Fashion In An Age Of Technology\" Costume Institute Gala","creditText":"Mike Coppola — Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5269184/beyonce-met-gala-2018-2/","name":"Beyoncé Gave the Internet the Most Divine Meme by Skipping the 2018 Met Gala"}}]}] ```