This essay was made possible through the support of the Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation.
Just a month before I entered it, I had no idea what the IFComp was.
The year was 2017.
If anything, outsider art exists because our expectations of art are not at all inclusive.
We don't need excuses like historical significance to justify the existence of personal games like Repeat the Ending.
At its core, AOTK has an anti-establishment philosophy, much like the avant garde. Especially with its penchant for remixing, and therefore subverting, bourgeois expectations of art objects and texts...