I have friends who have worked in Reality Tv and they are all artists; animators, producers, directors; I would not say their work was not art. Not fine art, but convincing people that shit is real is definitely art.
We call the drawings our children do art, but not fine art. In my mind art is something anyone can do, but the value of a work of art is subjective.
"Convincing people" that it's real, another thing reality tv has in common with porn. Well even if you don't consider yourself "fine" I appreciate your art and would consider what you produce to be such, especially when compared to the hypothetical products of your friends highly paid day jobs and the common porn clip. Your piece "Gone bat shit" although ironically looks like a piece ON reality t.v shouldn't be compared to such, there really are no comparisons. Art shouldn't fit in a technical description or analytically thought about it, that's for the left brain. I would love to hear if your animator friend considered his work on reality tv to be art. It truly is subjective just like beauty itself.