Nicely put; also for relevant context, recently there was publicity around a 'comedian' by the name of Nicole Arbor who put together some incendiary, willfully

Nicely put; also for relevant context, recently there was publicity around a 'comedian' by the name of Nicole Arbor who put together some incendiary, willfully offensive "Dear ____ People" videos, none of which I'll link. Basically, when called out for being highly offensive, she doubled down on the comedy and art being offensive is part of tradition 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't really art, just bad rhetoric. Not all things claiming to be art are actually art.