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Spinal Tap is a parody. Parody and satire are such that the audience is not initially told the performance is a lie, but the work itself gives more and more clues that it is not real. It gets more and more ridiculous. The point of a parody is to comment on the thing parodied.

He actively worked hard to hide that it is not real. He gave no subtle clues. The work's lie does not make a commentary on Netflix, craft art, or anything. The only thing the lie does is make you think he is a really skilled craft worker. That's why the video spread, and so that's why there is such outrage at the lie. It wouldn't have gone viral if he admitted it was CGI.

The Spinal Tap version of this would be like the same TikTok style DIY videos, where it is common to show some steps and the jump to the finished product, but where it would be obvious that he had not DIYed it. Like if he took $30 of yarn and used camera tricks to "build" a fully working computer to watch Netflix. That would be a parody commenting on the same thing as the "draw the rest of the fucking owl" meme [1]

[1] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/how-to-draw-an-owl