Flappy Bird in a museum

I started off on Wikipedia’s “List of video games considered artistic”, a curated list based on game designers and art critics, which was already a weird place to be. Who gets to definitely decide what is ‘artistic’ or not? As I was scrolling through the list, one game in particular caught my eye: Flappy Bird. I remember how the game became instantly famous overnight. Everyone and their mother was addicted to the incredibly simplistic game, to the point where the creator eventually had it taken off the app store. But despite its success, should it really be considered art? According to Wikipedia, the “arcade-style mobile game [is] now present in both the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Museum of Modern Art.” This raised another series of questions because I’ve been grappling with the idea of video games as art for a while now. While I do agree that game designers are artists, is it the type of art that can be imagined in galleries and prestigious museums? I tried to look further into whether it had been exhibited, etc., but I couldn’t find too much more on the subject. But who knows- as digital media and entertainment becomes more popular, maybe we’ll start seeing pop culture start to mesh with the world of fine art.