Reminds me of a famous literary hoax and experiment done by a writer for Newsday and a number of prominent authoers in 1969. He wanted to illustrate that American literary culture had become mindlessly vulgar. His theory was that any novel, even a literarily vacant one, even one with no social value whatsoever, could succeed if enough explicit prurience were thrown in.
He recruited 24 fellow writers, mostly from Newsday, and had them each write a chapter. He asked them each to write a deliberately inconsistent and mediocre chapter. Those that were too well written had to be edited down.
The book was a smashing success, of course, even making it to the New York Times bestseller list, and his point was proven.