success

"Flooding the Zone' is an overwhelming success," he tells me via text.

"I have had some success in an attack called cross site scripting, where you can essentially trick the chatbot into rendering a malicious payload that can cause all kinds of security implications."

For all of the Closet’s viral success, Criterion’s executives seem to abhor talking about it as a marketing tool.

The artwork was originally bought by Mr Wallace, the Manchester Guardian's literary editor, who used it to mark Manchester Civic Week, celebrating the city's industrial success.

No matter the reasons for the dirt thrown, sales numbers, while a metric for success, cannot tell the entirety of the impact of any piece of art.