This is one of those jokes that will absolutely spark a trend where in a few months Asus will have a diagonal monitor for sale and there will be videos and articles about how life changing it is.
It all comes from a blog post from 2021. A picture from it went viral on X/Twitter a week ago. (First two links in the article) Since then everyone is posting it.
I can't obviously see it there, I do think its a bit stupid, but I would have thought that Toms Hardware wouldn't have bitten the onion? Or have they gone downhill that far?