By Kirollos Abdalla —
At first, it was TikTok and Instagram. Then it was grifters Nick Fuentes, Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson. Can it get any worse?
Aparently it can. Now people are forming their worldview and understanding of politics from… LEGOs.
Yes, from Legos.
A daily, high-quality AI-generated Lego short is portraying Trump as a pig, the Jews as blood-drinkers and Iran as the quintessence of righteous resistance. It’s pure propaganda, and it’s aiming for Gen Z and Gen Alpha who don’t have the time to actually read a book or do research about international relations and origins of conflicts.
But the dumbing-down of complex issues doesn’t matter. What matters is it’s entertaining. The younger generation is getting convinced.
The apparent creator — whose identity was hidden by darkness and voice altering — told the BBC that he and his 10 co-creators known as Explosive Media are not directly funded by the Iranian government. We believe him, because the Iranian regime doesn’t do propaganda this good.
He does admit that the Iranian government is one of their collaborative donors, and they owe their internet access to the government (almost all of Iran is under internet blackout, and videos documenting the regime’s repression are coming out by Starlink).
Even though he argues he’s intellectually independent, his videos bend propaganda to the point of absurdism obediently following the will of the regime:
- The 40K Iranians massacred by their government in January were actually only 2,000, and they were “terrorists” trying to destablize the regime.
- The Americans didn’t rescue a pilot in Iranian territory but were searching for Iran’s enriched uranium.
- The Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza was actually bombed by Israel, not as the evidence proved that it was hit by an errant Hamas rocket.
“There seems to be a fierce competition between Trump and Netanyahu in fabricating lies,” he said, per translation. “We want to show that the confrontation is truth against falsehood.” The videos use rap to pump out the narrative.
This is kind of stuff churned out by communist regimes and Islam regimes. Evidently, Mr. Lego Creator is a bonafide believer in the Shi’ite Islam version of reality. There are some of them in Iran, though the majority have stopped believing a long time ago, as evidenced by the millions who flooded the streets and burned down mosques in January.
Such denial of reality, such reframing of facts, such alternate universe material represents the pinnacle of misinformation.
However, no one should recommend its deplatforming. Conservatives have no place trying to regulate misinformation; leave that to the Biden Marxists. Instead, we should simply ask people where they got their information from: an 8-second TikTok video? an Instagram post? a grifter? a child’s toy?
No doubt, Lego Man’s reality will gain traction among the crowd that believes the Earth is flat — and among people who revel in antisemitism, extreme isolatism or Trump Derangement Syndrome. In fact, in March alone, they were watched by 145M times.
Iranian government people can’t hit that success; their AI videos showing them blowing up the USS Abraham Lincoln were laughably amateurish. That’s why it’s clear these guys don’t work for the Iranian government (even though they get paid something by the regime).
Just step on a Lego barefoot, and you’ll know they’re from Hell.
Sources: BBC, CNN, others.
