Self-reference, circular logic, circular feedback, etc. are common in Fantastecha™, and part of what makes sentience and humour work:
"We are all connected to each other, in a circle, in a hoop that never ends"
The Chronicles of Amber - an alternative "real world" to ours
Mr. Linea ( from La Linea (TV series) ) is TheCreator. ;)
( — @shlomif tweet )
The characters of animated / imaginary universes often agree that their universes were/are ridiculous, but so is ours.
When we visit the fictional universes of and child-universes, we can see they have variations of many others we have imagined, and even our own real world universe.