The following essay was written and completed as part of my DNAP program at the École Supérieure d'Art des Pyrénées in June 2015.INTRODUCTIONI will address questions of aesthetics produced on the Internet, aesthetics that are often a subject of mockery: animated GIFs, space-themed wallpapers, glimmers, cat photos, rainbow gradients, and so on. In his thesis Everyone Is a Graphic Designer, of which a portion was published in Étapes magazine in 2008 (1), Yoann Bertrandy measures the “dista...