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Why Lego is our most powerful art medium

The viral Lego-style Iran War memes are the latest case of the toy being used as a building block for political art

Published April 26, 2026 1:30PM (EDT)

Here’s a sentence I never thought I’d type: The propaganda coming out of Iran is having a moment. Since the first days of the U.S.-Israeli attack on that nation, a group calling itself Explosive Media has been releasing AI-generated memes excoriating Donald Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the president’s closest advisers.

This in itself isn’t extraordinary, especially when one of the most prolific generators of hyperbolic, incendiary digital misinformation is the White House. In the battle for hearts and minds, the president’s social media team has, among other affronts, ripped off Studio Ghibli’s animation style to cutesify its deportation efforts. More recently, it ran afoul of Pokémon’s legions by cribbing that franchise’s signature font and imagery.

The Iranian Lego team, as they refer to themselves, is a small group that has found broad appeal by capitalizing on Millennial and Gen Z nostalgia for a toy central to their upbringings.

None of it has been as broadly embraced as the public’s reaction to Explosive Media’s Lego-style memes portraying Trump as a crybaby, Netanyahu’s puppet and worse, all set to hip-hop diss tracks.

Common refrains tout the theory that Trump attacked Iran as a distraction from the Epstein files, linking government officials to Satan worship, and accusing them of abusing women, children and people of color. One places Iran on the side of Native Americans, survivors of the Vietnam War and the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Malcolm X, Jeffrey Epstein’s victims and pro-Palestinian activist Rachel Corrie.

A very special episode hammers........

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