 It only becomes noticeable when the ugliness is directly supplanting something beautiful that came before it. The Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris burned, and now they're going to replace it with a contemporary monstrosity replete with obnoxious light displays and modern art and other forms of gaudiness. Speaking of art, modern art is defined by its ugliness. It is, like the TikTok user, ugly on purpose, to make a point of some kind. But what is the point?