Comment by rightbyte

Lots of children are telling the (elite) crowd the emporor is naked but they want to continue pretending so hard they wont budge.

It is a power move to go around naked pretending to wear cloths and get away with it.

The emporor in the story was fooled. The commoners played along with the emporor's cloths but they openly mock modern art.

The current situation is more of an injoke to mess with commoners.

Compare modern architecture that is nice inside but look horrible for the commoners looking at it from the outside.