You're right, I love this, thanks! I was familiar with some of these examples, e.g. Komar and Melamid's painting example (and, IIRC, unless I'm confusing with other artists, they also painted a painting filled with features that the "average" person hated, like abstract geometric shapes and stark colors, and the artists actually liked that painting and said something along the lines of "turns out we're really good at making bad art"), and the "AirBnB-style of interior design" was so excellently skewered by SNL recently, and HN has had a number of posts about how so many brands have devolved to the same monochrome, san-serif typefaces for their logos.

Still, at the same time, I couldn't help but feeling a little bit sad/resigned at the existence of the article you linked. Here I thought I had an idea that was not exactly unique but that I felt would be good to share. And yet then here is an example that expresses this idea a million times better than I ever could (I love "The Age of Average" headline), with great researched examples and tons of helpful visuals. It's hard to not feel a bit like Butters in that "Simpsons did it!" episode of South Park...