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Iran’s AI memes are reaching people who don’t follow the news – and winning the propaganda war
(theconversation.com)
But why Lego though?
this post was submitted on 19 Apr 2026
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They’re utilizing nostalgia. Mixing edgy themes like war imagery and the Epstein files with Lego is also fascinating. In a way a lot of us are fascinated by having their childhood be ruined. I am not sure why but it‘s definitely a thing people seek out.
Because asking AI to do humans is still uncanny. Pixar and Ghibli was already ruined by AI...
You can tell it's ai because they only have two fingers.
Children and the young are the most credulous viewers of propaganda. It also makes it more likely to be shared.
Huh. TIL I guess.
The administration got into power by being the first to hire the company (Cambridge Analytica) that discovered how targeted advertisement could be used to turn cash into effective propaganda by exploiting psychological profiling and social media.
That strategy requires a lot of money because in order to put their message in front of the eyes of people they have to pay for every single view. This has been effective since they represent a faction of American elites which have a huge amount of money.
Memes are different, they spread because they appeal to people and those people want to share them. This lets you wrap a message in a catchy meme and it spreads across social media for 'free'.
This administration is fighting a 2020s meme war with 2010 tactics. Having all the money in the world, buying all of the TV, social media and news organization in the US can only do so much.
Now 5 writers with a few graphics cards can make meme-quality content which is seen by everyone as long as the message resonates.
This administration isn't equipped for this kind of fight.
Their memes are weak and only 'work' in the right-wing media sphere due to them spending hundreds of millions of dollars on buying media companies, sponsoring influencers and running bot labs in order to signal boost their message and shape the online conversation by creating an artificial illusion of consensus.
There is no right-wing comedy, everything they do is built on making people outraged, angry and scared. That's not the kind of memes that spread on their own and money can only do so much.
Give me a video of a datacenter exploding and I'll watch it.
The Erika one cracked me up. It says what we all thinking.
A Lego one? Do you have a link. I am loving them.
One group of people is seeing none of the news or memes though: the iranian people
A lesson the Democrats will learn.
No. Not policy. Memes. Yes. It all makes sense now.
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The controlled opposition will learn nothing. They've had the capability all along and have never used it. They don't play for keeps. String the lot of them up and vote people in that will stand up to fascism.
The Iranian video in this article is crap, the music doesn't "slap" as the kids are saying these days.
The rap ones are pretty slick, this one was just saying people are going to become Islamic because Trump and Netanyahu suck.