General Discussion

sop

(19,014 posts) Mon Apr 27, 2026, 09:50 AM 14 hrs ago

New LEGO video for Americans - Americans Please Wake Up

15 replies

= new reply since forum marked as read

Highlight:

New LEGO video for Americans - Americans Please Wake Up (Original Post) sop 14 hrs ago OP

The message is pure--even while some may question its providence... hlthe2b 13 hrs ago #1

See reply 3. They have two AI clickbait channels "collaborating" and they started with a different type highplainsdem 12 hrs ago #4

Don't know who made it, but it brought tears to my eyes. sinkingfeeling 12 hrs ago #2

See reply 3. They have (at least) two AI channels and started with different clickbait. highplainsdem 12 hrs ago #5

That's AI slop, both video and music - 17 videos in 9 days - collaborating with another channel of AI slop and highplainsdem 12 hrs ago #3

I'm entitled to my own opinions and emotions. sinkingfeeling 11 hrs ago #8

And I'm entitled to point out the evidence that it's clickbait from an AI user or content farm that will highplainsdem 11 hrs ago #9

The YouTube channel is hosted by someone who does not appear Iranian. LeftInTX 10 hrs ago #15

Wow! peggysue2 11 hrs ago #6

See reply 3. It's from an AI user or content farm that started out doing very different videos as clickbait highplainsdem 11 hrs ago #13

Impactful video. Beacool 11 hrs ago #7

There's no evidence it's from Iran. The older of the two channels this AI user or content farm has highplainsdem 11 hrs ago #11

No thanks. littlemissmartypants 11 hrs ago #10

I agree. I'm trying to show people why they shouldn't be taken in by these insincere, manipulative videos. highplainsdem 11 hrs ago #14

Well, They Certainly Deep State Witch 11 hrs ago #12

hlthe2b

(114,313 posts)

1. The message is pure--even while some may question its providence...

Reply to sop (Original post)

Mon Apr 27, 2026, 10:13 AM

13 hrs ago

Put aside the cynicism and take the message to heart would be my advice.

highplainsdem

(62,732 posts)

4. See reply 3. They have two AI clickbait channels "collaborating" and they started with a different type

Reply to hlthe2b (Reply #1)

Mon Apr 27, 2026, 12:02 PM

12 hrs ago

of clickbait before Iran's Lego videos made news.

sinkingfeeling

(57,906 posts)

2. Don't know who made it, but it brought tears to my eyes.

Reply to sop (Original post)

Mon Apr 27, 2026, 11:14 AM

12 hrs ago

highplainsdem

(62,732 posts)

5. See reply 3. They have (at least) two AI channels and started with different clickbait.

Reply to sinkingfeeling (Reply #2)

Mon Apr 27, 2026, 12:04 PM

12 hrs ago

highplainsdem

(62,732 posts)

3. That's AI slop, both video and music - 17 videos in 9 days - collaborating with another channel of AI slop and

Reply to sop (Original post)

Mon Apr 27, 2026, 11:59 AM

12 hrs ago

very likely from the same content farm or individual. It's posting clickbait. If you look at the other AI slop channel, that one started out posting AI slop videos of religious music before suddenly switching to animated Lego videos for clickbait.

If you look at the main page for the video in the OP

https://youtube.com/@BNN_BrickNewsNetwork

you'll see, under collaborations, collaborations with Sophmara.

A video from.Sophmara was posted here last Thursday, 4/23.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221193801

This is the main page for Sophmara

https://youtube.com/@Sophmara_FanMadeMusic

and if you look at the page for their videos

https://youtube.com/@Sophmara_FanMadeMusic/videos

and check the oldest videos, you'll see they started with videos of religious music on March 27. This is from the video description of that first AI video they posted, just over a month ago:

This is not a performance. This is not a production. This is two broken vessels who said yes to God even when everything inside them was screaming no.

If you found this video — it was not by accident.

God has been trying to reach you through this sound. There is something in this song specifically assigned to your breakthrough. Your healing. Your release.

That was a performance - BS from an AI user posting religious clickbait. And just days later they switched to clickbait political Lego videos.

And it's a safe bet the same cynical person or persons is behind both accounts.

Whoever they are, they're using AI very crassly to manipulate people. Nothing they post should be considered sincere.

sinkingfeeling

(57,906 posts)

8. I'm entitled to my own opinions and emotions.

Reply to highplainsdem (Reply #3)

Mon Apr 27, 2026, 12:48 PM

11 hrs ago

highplainsdem

(62,732 posts)

9. And I'm entitled to point out the evidence that it's clickbait from an AI user or content farm that will

Reply to sinkingfeeling (Reply #8)

Mon Apr 27, 2026, 12:54 PM

11 hrs ago

post very different types of clickbait in a short time, depending on what they think will sell, and isn't at all likely to be sincere.

LeftInTX

(34,689 posts)

15. The YouTube channel is hosted by someone who does not appear Iranian.

Reply to sinkingfeeling (Reply #8)

Mon Apr 27, 2026, 01:41 PM

10 hrs ago

peggysue2

(12,563 posts)

6. Wow!

Reply to sop (Original post)

Mon Apr 27, 2026, 12:19 PM

11 hrs ago

The visuals alone are spectacular, heartrending. The message is of the moment.

I don't know where this came from. I don't care. No one can say they didn't get the memo:

Wake up, America. Don't let our 250th birthday be our last.

Wake up.

highplainsdem

(62,732 posts)

13. See reply 3. It's from an AI user or content farm that started out doing very different videos as clickbait

Reply to peggysue2 (Reply #6)

Mon Apr 27, 2026, 01:06 PM

11 hrs ago

and then switched to this as clickbait. Switched within days of the original Iranian videos getting media attention, and switched completely, with the earlier religious theme and photorealistic AI-generated singers forgotten.

Beacool

(30,523 posts)

7. Impactful video.

Reply to sop (Original post)

Mon Apr 27, 2026, 12:37 PM

11 hrs ago

It's ironic that something coming out of Iran is more accurate than what we get here. Project 2025 is turning the country into a fascist state.

highplainsdem

(62,732 posts)

11. There's no evidence it's from Iran. The older of the two channels this AI user or content farm has

Reply to Beacool (Reply #7)

Mon Apr 27, 2026, 12:57 PM

11 hrs ago

started out with very different clickbait videos that had nothing to do with Iran, then started doing Lego videos - a complete switch - after those early Iranian videos got attention. See my reply above.

littlemissmartypants

(34,171 posts)

10. No thanks.

Reply to sop (Original post)

Mon Apr 27, 2026, 12:55 PM

11 hrs ago

AI slop. This is the kind of manufactured emotionally gratuitous shit for clicks for cash that doesn't do a thing to help unite us.

It's exactly the kind of AI slop that we need to be wary about.

highplainsdem

(62,732 posts)

14. I agree. I'm trying to show people why they shouldn't be taken in by these insincere, manipulative videos.

Reply to littlemissmartypants (Reply #10)

Mon Apr 27, 2026, 01:12 PM

11 hrs ago

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221202314

Deep State Witch

(12,744 posts)

12. Well, They Certainly

Reply to sop (Original post)

Mon Apr 27, 2026, 01:00 PM

11 hrs ago

Have us pegged.

Reply to this discussion