Nicely put; also for relevant context, recently there was publicity around a &#x27;comedian&#x27; by the name of Nicole Arbor who put together some incendiary, willfully offensive &quot;Dear ____ People&quot; videos, none of which I&#x27;ll link. Basically, when called out for being highly offensive, she doubled down on the <i>comedy and art being offensive is part of tradition</i> but side-stepped acknowledging a lot of people found her material, well, just not funny. So it failed the artistic merit test by consensus. Thus, it wasn&#x27;t really art, just bad rhetoric. Not all things claiming to be art are actually art.