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The animated video shows a Native American chief riding a horse in a moonlit barren landscape.
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The animated video depicts Black Americans in chains.
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The animated video depicts survivors of Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison complex.
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The animated video shows Iranian soldiers attaching large banners to missiles.
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The video displays the on-screen text "For the stolen Blacks."
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The video displays the on-screen text "For the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki."
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The video displays the on-screen text "In memory of victims of Iran Air flight 655."
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US missiles shot down Iran Air flight 655 in 1988, killing all 290 people on board.
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The video displays the on-screen text "In memory of Rachel Corrie’s freedom struggle."
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American activist Rachel Corrie was killed by an Israeli bulldozer in Gaza in 2003.
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The video displays messages referencing victims of US wars and abuses in Afghanistan, Vietnam, and Iraq.
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The video displays the on-screen text "children of Epstein island."
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The animated video ends with giant statues of US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu collapsing.
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The animated video ends with the on-screen text "ONE VENGEANCE FOR ALL."
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Explosive Media released the video on March 29, 2026.
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Explosive Media has released a series of Lego-style animated videos on social media.
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The video has been viewed almost 150,000 times on X.
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YouTube deleted Explosive Media’s YouTube account.
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Explosive Media uses custom lyrics and rap beats to mock Trump.
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Explosive Media often uses Trump's own words in its animations to accuse him of hypocrisy and pandering to Israeli interests rather than America's.
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There was frustration, but no surprise – this story is not new.
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We know well how the West wraps truth in silence and tries to mute every voice that speaks it.
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Explosive Media’s videos have ranged from sombre stories reflecting on Shia-Muslim history to upbeat rap-style music videos, all using Lego-like brick figures and environments.
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Explosive Media said green in the animations represents Hussain, the grandson of Prophet Mohammed, and his fight for justice against oppression.
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Explosive Media said red in the animations symbolizes the oppressor.
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That's actually one of our team's favourite animations. Especially that moment when war helmets are placed on missiles and drones – it was truly brilliant.
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Some Explosive Media videos display the on-screen text "Epstein regime."
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Some Explosive Media videos display the on-screen text "LOSER."
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Some Explosive Media videos depict supporters of President Trump wearing brick-red hats labeled "MAGA."
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Explosive Media videos depict Trump's promises to keep the US out of new wars and help working-class Americans.
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Explosive Media videos use Trump's own words to accuse him of betraying his commitments and prioritizing Israeli demands.
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LOSER is one of our best creations.
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So we flipped it – and showed that, in the end, he's the biggest loser of all.
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The Trumpesque figure in the animations is sometimes shown holding a small doll.
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Explosive Media released a video addressing the Lebanese people stating that Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) will not leave them behind.
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The video was released after more than 100 bombs were dropped on Lebanon in 10 minutes.
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The team producing the videos has 10 members aged between 19 and 25.
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The team producing the videos has access to US-owned social media platforms.
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Iran’s government has blocked most Iranians from accessing US-owned social media platforms since the start of the war.
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Explosive Media said that Iranian state media outlets sometimes purchase their content.
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Explosive Media said that the group is independent.
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We produce high-quality media content, so it's natural that different local media outlets – including some state-affiliated ones – sometimes purchase our work for broadcast.
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In practice, we create the content first, and if the quality is strong enough, media organisations choose to buy it from us. This way, our independence is fully preserved.
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Other creators, including PersiaBoi and Southern Punk, have made similar Lego-themed videos.
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The Lego-style video trend has spread to Pakistan, where Nukta media created its own version ahead of the first round of Iran-US negotiations in Islamabad on April 11, 2026.
Fasi Zaka, social commentator
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These videos are ways of breaking through what is an information highway stacked against them generally in times of war.
Fasi Zaka, social commentator
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They're just calling it the 'Epstein regime', and that's a domestic fissure that they're choosing to bring forward again. They're also using, like, the election MAGA tropes and being subordinate to Israeli interests, so in that the way they're doing it, it seems like fun, but it's really, really smart.
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The United States bombed the Minab girls’ school on the opening day of the war, killing more than 160 Iranian school girls.
Fasi Zaka, social commentator
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The war opened with an atrocity against Iranian children.
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It all comes together in this way.
Marc Owen Jones, professor at Northwestern University in Qatar
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Marc Owen Jones said Iran’s efforts to win the narrative war are a critical part of its strategy because it cannot win militarily.
Marc Owen Jones, professor at Northwestern University in Qatar
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Their best bet of success is to have public opinion on their side, pressuring the United States to stop.
Marc Owen Jones, professor at Northwestern University in Qatar
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And the communications game in this day and age is one in which this kind of troll propaganda, this kind of 'owning smack-talk type' propaganda wins.
Marc Owen Jones, professor at Northwestern University in Qatar
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Marc Owen Jones said that Western audiences might have found the Lego-style videos more resonant if they had not originated from Iran, due to decades of distrust toward the country.
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