and a caption that reads Ceci n’est pas une pipe (This is not a pipe). But how can we reconcile these two elements? This isn’t just a lawyer’s over-literal reading. There’s ample precedent ...

Just as René Magritte wrote “This is not a pipe” on his famous painting, this is also not a pipe. It is however a picture of part of a vast dark cloud of interstellar dust called the Pipe Nebula.

One example places a marshmallow chick above French script stating “this is not a peep.” Sometimes Magritte’s pipe turns into Pepe, or Mario pops out of it. This is not a group of pipe memes ...