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The people in the picture are not pictures. It's not a picture of pictures. The fact that the picture is not real does not make its subject not real. In fact, because the picture is a simplification, the picture could apply to any number of real people
Technically they are lights emitted by your computer screen that make up a picture that represent people that do not exist.
Even more technically they are electrical impulses perceived by your brain due to light signals interpreted by your eyes.
The reverse ceci n'est pas un pipe argument? Nice!