The Iranian Lego AI video creators credit their virality to ‘heart’

April 10, 2026 Charles Pulliam-Moore

An AI-generated image depicting a Lego Moses standing in front of a pyramid into which Donald Trump’s face is etched. The pyramid is being bombarded by missiles.

Donald Trump has spun the recent rescue of a downed airman whose fighter jet was destroyed behind Iranian borders as a resounding success. But the story is very different in one of the many viral, AI-generated Lego videos that have been produced by Iranian content creation group Explosive Media in the weeks since the US and Israel began dropping bombs on the country. In Explosive Media's music video take on how things played out, the US military is a joke for losing multiple planes and helicopters, and spending "$100 million just to save one guy."

The video's shots of Lego jets exploding into $100 bills and golden coins reinforce the idea …

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