It's an art piece, see LibidinalMarx's comment in the other thread. The full piece says "this is not a pipe" because it's not: it's actually some ink on a page or pixels on a screen that represent a pipe.
Very cheeky
I once had a CAPTCHA which prompted me to "click each image containing a parking meter" and it presented a photograph of a single mailbox. I clicked "skip". It yelled at me in red letters "please select ALL IMAGES CONTAINING A PARKING METER!!" So I clicked on the mailbox, and it let me in. :shrug-outta-hecks:
Half the time I can't get Captchas I'm positive I'm a replicant or my internet is that shitty.
i must be too stupid to get whats going on here, doesnt every square contain a pipe?
Some friends got me a shirt like this for my birthday a few years back. It's an art joke, and a Star Wars joke, all in one!
Do they contain pipes, or do they contain a representation of a pipe? and can you conflate the two, or should you?
Ohhhh this is the ui nightmare WebApp/game isn't it? That's not the name, just the experience.
e: found it! https://userinyerface.com/