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# Metropolitan Museum Butt-Checks Kim Kardashian
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/metropolitan-museum-butt-checks-kim-kardashian/
- Published: 2014-11-14T00:24:09.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:16:23.000Z
- Description: The Metropolitan Museum has officially won the internet today.
- Author: Hrag Vartanian
- Tags: Opinion, Kim Kardashian, Memes, Metropolitan Museum of Art, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:03 (2014, 2015, part 1)

[![kardashian-met-1280](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2014/11/kardashian-met-1280.jpg)](https://twitter.com/metmuseum/status/532941155970076674?ref=hyperallergic.com)

Surely [you’ve](https://www.tumblr.com/search/breaktheinternet?ref=hyperallergic.com) [seen](http://nymag.com/thecut/2014/11/kim-kardashians-butt-inspired-so-many-memes.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) [the](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/12/kim-kardashian-memes-paper-cover%5Fn%5F6146636.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) [bazillion](http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/kim-kardashian-nude-sparks-internet-memes-article-1.2008049?ref=hyperallergic.com) [meme-ified](http://pix11.com/2014/11/12/kim-kardashians-nsfw-break-the-internet-attempt-ends-in-funny-memes/?ref=hyperallergic.com) [images](http://mashable.com/2014/11/13/kim-kardashian-paper-mag-full-frontal/?ref=hyperallergic.com) [ricocheting](http://www.techtimes.com/articles/20108/20141113/kim-kardashian-tried-to-break-the-internet-with-her-naked-butt-became-a-funny-internet-meme-instead.htm?ref=hyperallergic.com) around the internet as a result of Kim Kardashian’s cover for *Paper* magazine? Well, the [Metropolitan Museum](https://twitter.com/metmuseum/status/532941155970076674?ref=hyperallergic.com) has posted the only response worth seeing. Behold the [7,000-year-old Neolithic](http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1972.118.104?ref=hyperallergic.com) ancestor of our favorite reality star. All I can say is:

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