One of the points of the joke is that it is almost certainly computer generated word salad (constrained to certain rules) wrapped around an inserted commercial message. The word salad by looking "random" and "human" gets past spam filters better than purely human generated spam which has more of a tendency to fall into detectable patterns.
That this was mostly computer generated was one of the reason's Doug was intending to be funny in asking if it was art, and one of the reasons I was intending to be funny by suggesting that it was "found art" and that since Doug was the person who "found" it (identified it as art) he was the artist.
(When I was in first grade, my class was taken to an abstract art
exhibit that including a display of "found" art. The guide explained
to us that an old board that had weather into attractive patterns and
had been framed on hung on the wall was found art, and the artistic
act was the artist spotting the board, seeing it as art, and selecting
it to frame and present to the world as art. Probably because it was
the first time I was exposed to the idea of deciding what was art and
what was not, that definition stuck with me.)
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