People have posted prolific artists, called it AI, and had everyone hating them until the big reveal. So to be frank, it probably is in your head.
If it was never about objective quality, Plan 9 from Outer Space and The Eye of Argon would be highly regarded, not the butt of jokes and drinking games.
And those are the examples so infamous that they get to have the honour of being laughed at, there are many more which simply fade into obscurity from their ineptness.