{"id":93546,"date":"2026-05-27T23:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T23:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/93546\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T23:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T23:44:11","slug":"group-behind-pro-iran-ai-lego-videos-greets-iranians-as-internet-blackout-ends-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/93546\/","title":{"rendered":"Group behind pro-Iran AI Lego videos greets Iranians as internet blackout ends"},"content":{"rendered":"

Explosive Media, the group behind most of the pro-Iran AI videos<\/a> resembling The Lego Movie, is reintroducing itself, this time to Iranians who have been without internet<\/a> access for months.<\/p>\n

Iranian authorities imposed an internet blackout<\/a> as US and Israeli strikes began on February 28.<\/p>\n

Online access began to resume on Tuesday shortly after President Masoud Pezeshkian approved a vote by a cyberspace task force to allow Iranians back online<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cInternational internet access has been restored in Iran again \u2026 hello to all dear Iranians\u201d Explosive Media posted to its Telegram channel with more than 17,000 subscribers. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhile you were defending our country in the streets, we were waging a media war in Iran’s favour with Lego videos.<\/p>\n

The videos, created with the help of AI, have received millions of views on social media and became a major influence tool during the Iran war.<\/p>\n

Explosive Media’s prolific content, however, has not been without controversy. Alphabet-owned video platform YouTube suspended Explosive Media’s account<\/a> several months ago. <\/p>\n

A YouTube representative told The National that the group had breached the platform’s policies regarding spam, deceptive practices and scams. <\/p>\n

One of Explosive Media’s recent videos<\/a> caused concern after terrorism experts said it depicted the assassination of a Swedish prime minister and contained a \u201cveiled threat\u201d to the politicians in power in the country.<\/p>\n

The video used Lego characters to portray the murder of Olof Palme, who was assassinated in Stockholm 40 years ago.<\/p>\n

Concerns have also been raised that Explosive Media was using Denmark-based Lego Group’s intellectual property for propaganda purposes without permission, potentially damaging the toy brand. <\/p>\n

The Lego Group has so not provided any comment on the matter. <\/p>\n

Explosive Media, meanwhile, recently posted a video titled \u201cTrump’s Victory Delusion\u201d, which portrays US President Donald Trump as an infant sleeping while clutching a bottle of oil. The video then contrasts Mr Trump’s claims of victory with what Iran claims to be the reality of the conflict. <\/p>\n

\u201cReality is against you Mr President,\u201d a caption accompanying the video read. \u201cYou cannot change it with slop tweets.\u201d <\/p>\n

In a follow-up message, Explosive Media directed fans of the group’s content to donate funds. <\/p>\n

\u201cMany of our friends message us to say they want to donate to us but don’t know how to open a crypto account,\u201d the correspondence read in part, followed by instructions on how to transfer funds. <\/p>\n

According to NetBlocks, a global internet monitor, connectivity in Iran is still being restored and remains limited.<\/p>\n

\u201cService remains heavily filtered, with new restrictions on messaging and app stores compared to pre-January,\u201d NetBlocks said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

NetBlocks says Iran’s self-imposed internet blackout was the longest of its kind since the group began tracking such incidents. <\/p>\n

Cloudflare Radar, which also examines internet cuts, said restoration in Iran remained a work in progress. <\/p>\n

\u201cOur traffic volume data shows that traffic increases are concentrated primarily in Tehran, with smaller spikes in other regions,\u201d Cloudflare said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Explosive Media, the group behind most of the pro-Iran AI videos resembling The Lego Movie, is reintroducing itself,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[6050],"tags":[184,2271,4248,6051,1446,8313,8312,239,32645],"class_list":["post-93546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lego","tag-donald-trump","tag-iran","tag-lego","tag-lego-group","tag-social-media","tag-standard","tag-story","tag-technology","tag-us-bureau"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116649201856818967","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}