It increasingly often feels to me like the creator/programmer/whatever of this simulation (or whatever it is) is feeding us novel prompts to see how we will react. :)
That's a completely mental way of interperting this post and this world. I meant the physicist are doing it for funsies not the Lord almighty.
At face value your chain of logic isn't coherent, how can creator be sure he isn't just a creation? And you get to absurdities it's creators all the way down.
It's a visualization of the wave function, not an image of entangled photons, so it's meant to convey what the images represent in a form that's human "readable". (Think data visualizations)
Its worth emphasising that entanglement is not a two-party / duality specific thing.
You can entangle 2 particles, you can entangle 3 particles, you can entangle n particles (although actually doing so becomes a quite hard engineering problem as n grows), you can even entangle different properties of the same particle with each other so the spin and position of an electron can become entangled.
Human brains love dual/pairwise properties for some reason, but they don't seem to actually come up in physics very often.