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In September, his preprint received an Ig Nobel Prize, a satirical award that promotes research that “makes people laugh, then think.”

Back then, the artist said he conceived of his work as a satirical jab at market speculation, asking the question, “On what basis does an object acquire value in the art system?”

The banana also attracted scrutiny earlier this month, when a Sotheby’s executive, Michael Bouhanna, anonymously released a cryptocurrency named after the satirical artwork.

“What I want to say to Mr. Wolf, if he reads this, is that his creative product has entertained me for hundreds of hours, And that comes through in a satirical nature.”

Read the following sentences and decide if they’re a headline from satirical news site the Onion or my summaries of comments from the unironic mind of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his disinformation network, Infowars.