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Barry Keoghan's 2025 Met Gala Costume refers to memes and jokes about Irish actor Barry Keoghan's outfit for the 2025 Met Gala, which some internet users viewed as unaligned with the Black Dandyism theme that year. Several internet users drew from Russian, Chinese and Central Asian history to post memes and jokes about Barry Keoghan's outfit following the event in early May 2025, referring to him as a "wily Crimean Khan," "White Russian faction leader hunted down in Uzbekistan" and "16th century Crimean Vizir," among other titles.
Origin
Barry Keoghan walked the Met Gala carpet on May 5th, 2025, wearing a custom Valentino outfit styled by Ilaria Urbinati. The outfit was black with a red cummerbund and featured detailed embroidery on the sleeves and neckline.
The X[1][2] accounts @beyzanurapaydin and @mediaforupdates were the first to post photos of Barry Keoghan's Met Gala outfit, posting tweets a minute apart at 6:44 and 6:45 p.m. on May 5th.



X[3] user @giltcomplex was one of the first to post a notable tweet commenting on Keoghan's outfit with a joke about the lead guitarist for the Beatles, writing, "george harrison going to a funeral," gathering over 3,000 likes in two days.

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More jokes about Barry Keoghan's 2025 Met Gala outfit appeared online on May 5th, with X[4] user @ramonicahall1 posting a tweet that translates to, "Me watching the conclave on Wednesday." The post gathered over 20,000 likes in two days.

Also on May 5th, X[5] user @hagliacci tweeted, "bitch that is bogdan kravchenko," gathering over 3,000 likes in two days.

Other internet users continued the trend of describing Keoghan as a Crimean, Russian or Central Asian person from the early 20th century, with X[6] user @ahardtospell writing, "Me: you going to the function? Friend: yeah but you better not be giving esoteric White Russian faction leader who was eventually hunted down in Uzbekistan in 1926 when I get there. Me at the function," The post gathered over 12,000 likes in two days.

Also on May 5th, X[7] user @LegoRacers2 wrote, "15th century Genoese merchant: I can't wait to purchase silks on the Black Sea coast without being sold into slavery! The wily Crimean Khan." The post gathered over 28,000 likes in two days.

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![May 6th, 2025 tweet by @brianonhere X user @brianonhere remarked on jokes linking Barry Keoghan's 2025 Met Gala outfit to Central Asian history, writing, "(pulling up wikipedia for "Central Asia" so i can get in on some riffs) The uhh sidekick to the main Kazakh guy when the forced deportation of Koreans in the Soviet Union resulted in a population of over 300,000 Koreans in the region.[18]"](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/003/061/963/a72.png)
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[1] Twitter / X – beyzanurapaydin
[2] Twitter / X – mediaforupdates
[3] Twitter / X – giltcomplex
[4] Twitter / X – ramonicahall1
[6] Twitter / X – ahardtospell
[7] Twitter / X – LegoRacers2
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