It can be difficult to get a handle on camp. The World in Evening, probably the first explicit discussion of camp. You have to meditate on it and feel it intuitively, like Lao Tse's Tao. You show off tastes that everyone knows are not your own. Camp is often rich with exaggeration.
Examples are everywhere.
Meanwhile, The Encyclopedia of Bad Taste is a national bestseller. Funny as camp can be, its dark side is hard to deny. When Dave Letterman shines the kleig lights on seemingly clueless working class foils, teasing them for the benefit of an uber-hip New York audience, he shows that mass camp can be smug, snobbish, and even mean. Camp is generous. At that time, of course, the nation's economy was on a seemingly endless upward trajectory, and the middle classes were the prime beneficiaries.