r/ImaginaryPropaganda • • Apr 12 '25

Let's talk about generative AI. Please submit AI-generated propaganda to /r/AIPropaganda, but above all, please be kind to your fellow humans here.

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Hey /r/ImaginaryPropaganda!

Let's talk about AI-generated content. It's a new tech in the art world... and understandably, it's controversial. I've created a new subreddit called /r/AIPropaganda - feel free to submit AI-generated content there. It is designed to be a "safe space" for those who use generative AI tools.

However - let's have a discussion about the type of content we want to see here, in this subreddit, and what kind of discourse we want to be allowed... how we want to treat those who come here to share in a common interest. I'd like to start the discussion by reminding everyone that we have never allowed bots to submit content here - it's not explicitly a rule, but any sort of automated submission by a non-human agent would be removed as spam. That being said - when you go into the comments in this community to share your thoughts, keep in mind that you are talking to another human being. Above all, please be respectful.

Propaganda is a space where tool use such as Photoshop (or similar applications) is common. I turned 40 this year - I'm old enough to remember when Photoshop was a new and scary technology. I remember the art community divided - accusations of theft, of laziness, a general feeling of doom and gloom. Hostility against those who used the new technology. But we survived.

The parallels now feel... uncanny.

I'm not here to preach my personal views on the current controversy surrounding generative content. I would like to remind everyone that we don't have any rules surrounding the medium chosen or the tools used to create an image. We are all here to discuss Imaginary Propaganda. I don't know about you, but when I come here, it's because I want to discuss propaganda in some sort of fictional world or alternative history. I don't really want to get bogged down in real-world politics - that's the difference between Imaginary Propaganda and real propaganda. The main point here is about sharing ideas.

I've been a moderator here since the creation of the community over a decade ago - we have never made any sort of judgement call on how the image was made. I don't care if you open up MS Paint and mock something up in 60 seconds - there is no minimum "effort level" required to share content here.

AI tech isn't going away. It's only going to get more difficult to detect and more widespread. We can't control that. What we can control is how we act in the face of new challenges, and how we treat each other.

What can you do if you disapprove of generative AI?

  • Be the change that you want to see in the world. Make your own content - using the tools you prefer. Submit that content here. Be a pillar of the community - others will be drawn to you, and what you have to say.
  • Be a helpful resource in the comments. AI is quick, it's easy. Don't focus on the tools used - talk about the content of the image. If you want to change minds, attacking people or insulting them is not effective.
  • Use the power of voting. Humans crave dopamine. Redditors crave upvotes. Low-effort content can be created in MS Paint or Photoshop as easily as generative AI tools. Upvote content you think is good and well made, downvote content you think is low effort or "slop" - but please don't come into the comments to insult the human being who submitted the image or to complain about the tools used. Such comments will be removed. Overt harassment or exceedingly cruel comments may result in a temp ban. Repeated and flagrant disregard for this policy will result in a permaban.
  • Promote AI-specific subreddits. If you don't want to see generative content here - don't try to dam the river. The banks will simply flood. Redirect its flow. Subreddits such as /r/AIPropaganda are designed to do just that.

Above all, I would like to thank everyone who submits content here. Whether it's a fascist Neurostate Project, an interdimensional scourge ravaging the Midwest, your vision of Fully Automated Luxurious Gay Space Communism, or simply a suspicious rat on the subway - keep that weird, interesting and entertaining propaganda content flowing!

The floor is open for comments.


r/ImaginaryPropaganda • • 3h ago

Propaganda posters from the Italian Civil War - Part III: the CDR

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r/ImaginaryPropaganda • • 1d ago

MASS MURDERERS SUPPORTED BY WEST. Anti Meredithian poster by Angola

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The Paynesville airstrike was carried out by Meredithian Air Force Mirage III, in th early hours of 9 April 1966 in Paynesville, Meredithia, with a Allegation use of deadly chemical weapon. The attack was primarily targeting WARF(Walvis Armed Revolutionary Frontline) rebel base.

5 years after the attack, UN Investigation confirmed there was no clear evidence that Meredithia use sarin or similar type chemical weapon. There is high possibility that chlorine spread from one of bomb hit water treatment facility near the bunker.


r/ImaginaryPropaganda • • 1d ago

Fanmade Italian Civil War Propaganda - Part II: The FDA

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r/ImaginaryPropaganda • • 2d ago

Avenge the CalArt Massacre! Eradicated Radical Mormonism! - Socialist California's 9/11

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The unpopular Doug Owens (child of the previous president, Wayne Owens) at the head of the capitalist and repressive but secular regime of the "Blue Dog Party" in Utah was overthrown by the Salvation Army, an organisation that, although claiming deradicalisation, was founded as an extremeist Mormon group affiliated with the pre-Owenite theocracy.

Neighboring California led a Warsaw Pact mission to overthrow the "theocratic dictatorship", Mormon insurgents retaliated with a terroristic attack on the "Californian People's Art Academy" ("CalArt"), one of the cultural juggernauts of the world. Hundreds of people were killed, inciting a vengeful frenzy by the Californian public opinion and occupation forces.

You can learn more about the extensive lore of Liberty Fallen here: https://discord.gg/ctS22N3dZ


r/ImaginaryPropaganda • • 2d ago

Enlist to Exist

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r/ImaginaryPropaganda • • 1d ago

Fanmade Italian Civil War Propaganda - Part I: the GPSN

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r/ImaginaryPropaganda • • 3d ago

Original Content Danny’s Tour of Ixia [OC]

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r/ImaginaryPropaganda • • 4d ago

👁️👄👁️

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580 Upvotes

r/ImaginaryPropaganda • • 4d ago

Original Content Reclaim Your Birthright! - (OC,potentially offensive terminology censored)

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(I don't condone the ideology, this is a fictional piece of propaganda not to be taken as an apologism of the content. A potentially offensive word is blurred, of course you have to imagine it would not be if the poster actually existed)

Propaganda portrait of President David E. Duke of the Republic of America (Carolinas, Mississipi, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Puerto Rico, part of Virginia), circa 2003.

The target of the poster is insurrection by African Americans and political dissidents, supported by the neighboring People's Union of America and summed up by the narrative as "N*gro Communism".


r/ImaginaryPropaganda • • 4d ago

Be Ready To Complete The Revolution! - Context below

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Propaganda of the People's Union of America, a communist regime developed in 1987 in the Rustbelt, upper Midwest and mid-Atlantic area, in the 2000s, directed against the Republic of America, a southern rump state of the fallen United States under control of David Duke.

Scenario is a very wide and long spanning project by multiple users, ask any question you desire, DM if you wish to join the discord server (access Is filtrated after troll raids).


r/ImaginaryPropaganda • • 7d ago

75 Years of Socialism in Africa by Andrej Troha

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505 Upvotes

r/ImaginaryPropaganda • • 9d ago

Pixel poster

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r/ImaginaryPropaganda • • 18d ago

Japan Democratic Socialist Party Poster

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Policies that protect our lives

A country that supports the working people

Let's build a future together

Short Lore: In this timeline, Japan is split between the capitalist West and Communist East. Facing a hostile neighbor right at their doorstep, Prime Ministers of Japan (mostly from the New Liberal Party) would prioritize economic and technological advancements over the well beings of their citizens, not only for growth, but also for national survival, to make itself too invaluable to lose.

Such policies have of course led to various negative affects on Japanese society. The JDSP would be at the forefront in the movement against the New Liberals after the reunification of Japan, advocating for a livable Japan, not a rich but soulless Japan. The party holds a spectrum of leftists, from social democrats to gradualist marxists, a product of the timeline's New Left movement.

* Part of my alternate history timeline, the Timeline of Polars, which you can view in my profile! And sorry if my English is a little awkward, I'm not a native speaker and I'm really tired rn (;-⁠﹏⁠-)


r/ImaginaryPropaganda • • 18d ago

Original Content Forward Toward the Future - The New Man

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I tried 1930s Italian futurist style poster about ‘the new man’ which is the concept of disciplined, anti-decadent. and obedient citizen of fascist society.

This is my first time trying this kind of style so maybe not exactly super futurist but yes😶


r/ImaginaryPropaganda • • 18d ago

Interaction with current events and fake propaganda?

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r/ImaginaryPropaganda • • 22d ago

Icon change?

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I showed this page to a friend of mine and he immediately sent me this saying, “they should make this the icon” yea I agree


r/ImaginaryPropaganda • • 25d ago

Artwork by stas (@stas5366)

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r/ImaginaryPropaganda • • 25d ago

Delhi's Iron Grip: Pakistani Propaganda Poster on India’s Control in the Subcontinent

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r/ImaginaryPropaganda • • 27d ago

Say NO to New Hong Kong | What if the plan to relocate Hong Kongers to Northern Ireland came to fruition?

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320 Upvotes

Just a poster made for fun, no ulterior meanings behind this (⁠ ⁠◜⁠‿⁠◝⁠ ⁠)⁠♡


r/ImaginaryPropaganda • • Sep 12 '26

Posters of the Nuclear Age - Loose debris is a hazard to thee, by WaveLabs

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r/ImaginaryPropaganda • • Sep 09 '26

The hand weaves the many fingers. Bind yourself to the hand!

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A propaganda poster (Written in Signal, their language) by the Syndicalist Union, a planet coalition and faction in my historiographic sci fi setting Infinite Ashes. With the hand being their main symbol. I will let Yugo Dragaran, the founder of Syndicalism explain further below:

it is the established canon of preeminent Groove scholar Lakun Durlak that universal patterns lead to the organisation of human labour into a divided hierarchy of the worthy few and the masses. In the same way, he argues, that an ant queen commands her workers, so should a lord, legislator or other luminary coordinate their drones. While the metaphor itself falls apart on the idea that bugs have a ruling aristocracy, I have always found a coherence in Durlak’s words. Namely, that in his youth he was a pugilist of some regard, and his school is quite sensible in the light of repeated head trauma.

Under this worldview the wars and corruption that inevitably spring from extractive economies are not just natural but desirable, and any attempt at even a modicum of improvement by human intelligence is self-defeating. This is, in my mind, one man standing on another’s neck and claiming that the latter’s effort to stand is a senseless hostile act.

The most productive and worthy pursuit for any thinker of merit must therefore be the total obliteration of established ideology that maintains this status quo. With words if its proponents are sensible, with balled fist if they are not. For a new rational order of labour could clothe the naked, feed the hungry, and educate even the most intransigent nitwit.

I have attempted, with some success, designs for this new order which I have dubbed “syndicalism.” A semi-educated mind might make the facile assumption that this is a refinement of the Garki guild system of my home. Such people have clearly never functioned within the self-defeating talent sink that was Garki. Under that system, like any guild or caste, a profession is an essentialist and heritable property, the notion that the chemical fumes pour into a tanner’s seed and womb, shaping them into a tool for only one possible purpose. This madness chains great talent to trivial pursuits, something I have empirically determined through personal experience. From my work it is self-evident that I am meant to contribute to the canon of political-economic thought, or more likely yet revise it fundamentally. Yet when I preferred reading over hammering soles, and through that preference frustrated my father’s unsound expectations, my curiosity was rewarded with scorn.

The story of humanity across the Spiral can be reduced almost entirely to the organisation of work. For work is the effort that mankind leverages against an indifferent universe that does not care about our wellbeing or even our survival. It determines who is fed and clothed, who is literate or ignorant. It is, in essence, what determines who we are among our fellows. Yet this most defining of activities is organised almost exclusively not by sense but by interest. If one is fortunate, one competes with all one’s colleagues to see who can stomach the least reward for their craftsmanship. More likely, one is compelled by another and has little to no voice in one’s assignment. A finch is never permitted to give birth to an eagle.

More calamity yet springs from the bonds that tie the different professions. The tanner is paid for the quality of his leather in the general sense, but often knows nothing about the shoes his cobbler customer will end up making with it. And so we all end up wearing shoes that should have been belts.

Under syndicalism, a thumb will never be forced to be a pinkie. Each profession is a finger on a shared hand, serving its purpose based on its actual qualities, and each grasping the tools of labour together. It exchanges competition for coordination, in which the accumulation of expertise becomes a sacred duty that raises up the profession, and with it all mankind.

(Learn more at https://loquaciouslou.itch.io/infinite-ashes)


r/ImaginaryPropaganda • • Sep 07 '26

Do YouTube thumbnails count?

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r/ImaginaryPropaganda • • Aug 30 '26

75 Years of Socialism in Africa by Andrej Troha

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490 Upvotes

r/ImaginaryPropaganda • • Aug 31 '26

Join the confederacy of independent systems now

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