No, I get it. There's this unspoken understanding that barcodes are strictly utilitarian and unobserved as their nature. In stylizing them, there's an acknowledgement of being unexpectedly seen by the human consumer and not the intended digital scanning device.
For a minute, I was thinking it might be that someone made a bot that just made posts generated by ChatGPT with no supervision, but then looking at OP's post history, there's no way AI could think up this.