Is a fart a fart before you fart it?

As a professional Fartographer, I can confirm this is the correct answer. Sometimes you're feeling confident that you're hanging out with a fart, but then it comes out to you as poop.

Then you have to tell it, "look, I still appreciate you as something I created, but I can't support your choice of being poop." And then you tell it that it has until the weekend to get out of your pants.

You can't study it directly without bringing it out into the world and measuring it, but by doing so, it immediately collapses into a fart.