No they are definitely a shitcoin. Just because they pass as a valid txn doesn’t we all have to embrace them. Casey found a way to exploit an aspect of the protocol for his own personal pet project and it’s ultimately hurting bitcoin by consuming a tremendous amount block space for non-bitcoin txns. Blockspace that people of the world need for far more important reasons than dickpick jpegs. Let’s not forget what satoshi was fighting for. Ordinals are bad for bitcoin.