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Minutes later President Donald Trump After declaring that he would not erase “an entire civilization” on Tuesday evening, a team of self-described young Iranian activists jumped into action.
Members of the group known as Explosive Media have been putting the finishing touches on their latest AI-generated creation, LegoVideo inspired by Trump. The video shows a miniature Trump colluding with leaders of Gulf states, Iranian officials pressing a large red button that says “Back to the Stone Age,” and Trump throwing a chair at American generals.
It was the latest of more than a dozen videos posted by the pro-Iranian group since the start of the war in February, many of which have garnered millions of views on major platforms. While Iranian government accounts have posted Lego-style videos in the past, Explosive Media’s content is more complex and scripted. It is produced by a team of young, pro-Iranian creators who appear to be very familiar with the Internet and American culture. actually Some critics He owns The alleged one The group has Relationships to the Iranian government.
“We were almost certain Trump was going to back down; it was clear to us,” one Explosive Media team member, who did not want to identify himself publicly, told WIRED. “We were prepared for this scenario and had the content ready in advance. We just made some adjustments and released it.”
The team even added a reference to 10 point plan Iran proposed this as part of its recent ceasefire agreement. As the video concludes, a Lego Trump sits next to the document, crying while holding a white flag and eating a taco – an apparent reference to the acronym.Trump always chickens out“.
Within hours of Trump’s announcement, the video was posted to Explosive Media’s
While the Trump administration was spreading crossover memes War footage with movie clips Attracting a narrow audience of loyal followers, Explosive Media’s Lego videos reached a much wider audience in the United States — and some of them clearly liked what they saw.
“We are committed to learning more every day about the American people and culture,” the Explosive Media team member told WIRED. “In this process, the Americans themselves have been helping us – and this support and guidance continues. They share poignant advice and ideas with us.”
Explosive media He started In the year 2025 as a YouTube channel featuring political comments made by a young Iranian man. The content never gained any traction, with most videos only getting a few hundred views.
But that all changed in February, when the group began posting Lego-inspired videos, with the team writing, producing and editing each video using artificial intelligence tools. (The group did not disclose the AI tools it was using.)
The videos quickly went viral on platforms like TikTok, X, and Instagram.
“People are disconnected from some of the real conflict content and are looking for something that can distill what’s happening quickly and in a language and tone they understand, and that’s what these Lego videos do,” Mostafa Ayyad, a researcher at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue who has closely followed the online content shared by Iranian groups during the war, tells WIRED. “They make it easier to understand the conflict from Iran’s perspective, and they simultaneously hit points of discontent in the United States. They are working on two fronts.”
Iran has previously used Lego-style videos in war propaganda. Back in 2024, according to Ayyad, the IRGC shared links to a Lego video, and during the Twelve Day War in 2025, Iranian state media declared victory over Israel in 2024. Another Lego video.