No, I believe it is real. At this point, anything with eyes can be a pokemon. We already have a trash bag with eyes, a pokeball with eyes, and a cotton candy thing with eyes.
k, please don't even start, let's see what else we have had from gen 1:
rock with arms
pokeball with eyes (mentioned already)
pile of sludge
a fart
genwunner, kkthxbai