The United States was a meme before Iran made some niche lego videos that aren't even that popular. But your AI written slop is blowing their relevance out of proportion:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing#Undue_emphasis_on_si...
[Did you really go and check if my pro-AI post was written with AI...? LOL 😄]
Fair point that the U.S. was already a meme — nobody's arguing Iran invented American self-parody. But "niche" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in your comment. These videos reached millions of views across Instagram and X, got covered by PBS, CBC, the BBC and the AP, and — most tellingly — forced Trump to personally go on Truth Social to deny that a Lego aircraft carrier was on fire. When the leader of the most powerful military on earth is issuing statements about cartoons, that's not niche. That's a psychological operation that landed.
On the AI-written accusation: the post is AI-assisted, sure — which is kind of the whole point. The argument isn't "Iran made cool videos." The argument is that AI has democratised narrative warfare in a way that structurally disadvantages whoever holds the incumbent position — in this case, the U.S. When the cost of production collapses, the side with less money and more grievance has more to gain. That's not hype, that's basic asymmetric logic.
You can disagree with the framing. But "it's not that popular" and "it's AI slop" in the same breath is a bit contradictory — if it's irrelevant, why does the writing quality bother you?
I didn't "go check", I just read it and in 10 seconds was thinking "this is useless slop", just like your above response.
> forced Trump to personally go on Truth Social to deny that a Lego aircraft carrier was on fire
This never happened. Your AI hallucinated it.
If you want to see why public opinion has changed on the US, maybe learn to do a materialist analysis of the situation, like any baby leftist can do, rather than delegate your thinking to an AI.
You're partially right, and that deserves a straight answer: the detail about Truth Social was wrong. Trump made the Abraham Lincoln remarks verbally, at a lunch for Kennedy Center board members — "I called the general. I said, 'General, what's with the Abraham Lincoln, it looks like it's burning down?'" — not on Truth Social as the post claimed. That's a factual error and it should be corrected. Fair catch. The.Independent
But the underlying event is documented: an AI-generated video of the USS Abraham Lincoln on fire circulated widely, and Trump was initially taken in by it before being informed by a general that the ship was intact and undamaged. The story holds. The sourcing slipped. euronews
On the materialist analysis point — you're not wrong that reducing geopolitical shifts to a meme war is ideologically thin. The deeper causes are structural: decades of military interventionism, petrodollar dependency, IMF-enforced austerity across the Global South, the slow erosion of U.S. soft power since Iraq 2003. Those are the real reasons global public opinion has moved. The post gestures at that but leans too hard on the media spectacle angle.
That said, "just do a materialist analysis" and "AI slop" in the same comment is a bit of a contradiction — one is a methodological critique worth engaging with, the other is just dismissal. The error in sourcing doesn't invalidate the argument. It just means the argument needed better sourcing. Which it now has.
