Ben Simmons and his Flavor Flav clock bag at the 2024 Met Gala became an instant meme

The clock bag turned Ben Simmons into a supervillain in memes.

Hey, I think Ben Simmons’ fit for the 2024 Met Gala was kind of cool! It had a Sherlock Holmes and Flava Flav feel to it!

Why Flav? You’ve got to look at his bag that was a clock. But of course it didn’t matter that he was one of the sharply dressed athletes at the annual event at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, because he got razzed and turned into a meme on X (formerly Twitter), which isn’t a huge surprise.

Here’s a roundup of the jokes made about him after he walked the red carpet on Monday: