A robot with Mark Zuckerberg’s face squatted and defecated a photograph onto the floor of Art Basel.

Price tag: $100,000.

Status: sold out. Buyers: the same people the art was mocking.

This is “Regular Animals” by Beeple.

Robot dogs fitted with hyper-realistic heads of Musk, Zuckerberg, Bezos, Warhol, and Picasso.

They roam a glass pen, photograph their surroundings, then squat and print AI-reinterpreted images from their backsides.

The certificates read: “100% pure GMO-free, organic dogshit.”

Collectors framed them.

Beeple’s point isn’t subtle.

“We see the world through their eyes because they control these very powerful algorithms that decide what we see.”

So he put their heads on dogs. Behind glass. In a pen.

And then VIPs showed up on Wednesday — the people who fund those algorithms — and bought the critique of themselves before the public got through the door.

That’s the trap Beeple built.

If billionaires refuse to buy, the satire stands. If they buy, they prove the thesis.

Either way, Beeple wins.

The only people who lose are the collectors, and they paid $100K for the privilege.

A robot Zuckerberg pooping photos is transgressive in a gallery. It’s a conversation piece in a Miami penthouse.

The critique moves behind a gate. He put billionaires in a glass pen. And they paid to take themselves home.

The art world calls it collecting. Everyone else calls it bail.

Threat neutralised.

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