The team behind a pro-Iran, Lego-themed viral-video campaign

virgildotcodes

It was quite obvious, but this is a noteworthy example of just how much more effective propaganda will become with AI. These videos are blowing up on Twitter. I personally found the one about Pete Hegseth quite well made and the song actually catchy. Edit: Video link courtesy mirashii in this thread - https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/116348872322024778

input_sh

Given the headline, they found out nothing about "the team".

chaostheory

No one cares about who made these videos in the US. The bigger issue is why are we engaging in a ground war in Iran when it doesn’t really serve US interests? Everyone on both political spectrums in the US can see why it benefits Saudi Arabia and Israel, but not the US. We’re using precious resources like missiles that we will need in the Pacific theater in next 1-2 years

dvh

I'm much more impressed by Chinese state-made eagles vs. cats video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dGY0_pgkv8

KellyCriterion

Is this one group? Today I saw an analyst from Pakistan and he also had some of these "trump-lego-snippets" in the video, was wondering why someone would put so much effort in a video against trump, but it seems he copied it somewhere (from this group e.g.)

dbvn

Hate to admit it... but the video goes hard

josefritzishere

The production values were great. I can't deny it.

sschueller

I would be interested to know how these are made on a technical level. Is it a combination of several tools and are they local or some service (I would think LEGO minifigs would trigger some copyright issue)? I also assume you need to do certain things to keep the consistency and somehow sync the music with the video?

delis-thumbs-7e

Is it even propaganda if you just read aloud your enemy’s wikipedia? I think Bubba refers to someone else than Clinton and Iran’s regime is despotic assholes, but apart from that pretty accurate depiction.

ece

Puppet regime has competition. Now do Putin.

titanomachy

I watched some of the videos. I think that the New Yorker does its readers a disservice by not pointing out that they also contain blatant lies, just like the propaganda they're supposedly countering. For example the "Victory Chronicles" video really misrepresents how much damage Iranian drones were able to do in Dubai and Saudi Arabia.

rawgabbit

Unrelated. I found this China propaganda video depicting its interpretation of the Iran war entertaining. It talks about the “flowing valley of gold” the Hormuz Strait, the “white eagle alliance” the USA, and “white eagle gold tickets” the petrodollar. https://youtu.be/As0rplNJTZI

elzbardico

There's also an Anime style one, more martial and militant in style. https://www.instagram.com/kutub.production/

bad_haircut72

Lego must be so mad hahaha

alsetmusic

A better article, I think: "Iran Is Winning the AI Slop Propaganda War" [0] 404 Media is journalist-owned if you want to contribute to consistently good journalism. I am not affiliated. 0. https://www.404media.co/iran-is-winning-the-ai-slop-propagan...

bombcar

If Iran was the axis of evil they'd use Megabloks