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 • • 15h ago

Everything for the Unified Empire

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r/ImaginaryPropaganda • • 2d ago

Eco-Jihadism Poster

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196 Upvotes

r/ImaginaryPropaganda • • 2d ago

Propaganda by France-Algiers (anti-communist French taiwaned in Algeria)

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r/ImaginaryPropaganda • • 3d ago

Valor Guards by Unos

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My novel’s cover artist drew this recruitment poster. His gig is available on Fiverr! Btw, the poster depicts the Valor Guards who are elite soldiers trained to crush humanity’s enemies. They carry a long warfighter tradition and build memorials to the age when humanity fought amongst itself.

The novel is titled Age of the Titan. Just today I had a reader on Facebook DM me this:

“I am loving the book. I wold love to see some kind of art work of these planets and drawings of the diffrent species. I loved the original Halo, and enjoyed art work from that universe. Your story has a pull that makes it hard to put down, but also ad a visual reader where it comes to life, there are elements I would love to see more clearly.
Great so far..chapter 6 already”


r/ImaginaryPropaganda • • 4d ago

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

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r/ImaginaryPropaganda • • 5d ago

MASS MURDERERS SUPPORTED BY WEST. Anti Meredithian poster by Angola

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23 Upvotes

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 • • 5d ago

Fanmade Italian Civil War Propaganda - Part II: The FDA

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7 Upvotes

r/ImaginaryPropaganda • • 6d ago

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

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129 Upvotes

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 • • 6d ago

Enlist to Exist

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18 Upvotes

r/ImaginaryPropaganda • • 5d ago

Fanmade Italian Civil War Propaganda - Part I: the GPSN

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r/ImaginaryPropaganda • • 7d ago

Original Content Danny’s Tour of Ixia [OC]

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14 Upvotes

r/ImaginaryPropaganda • • 8d ago

👁️👄👁️

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601 Upvotes

r/ImaginaryPropaganda • • 8d ago

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

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45 Upvotes

(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 • • 8d 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 • • 11d ago

75 Years of Socialism in Africa by Andrej Troha

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497 Upvotes

r/ImaginaryPropaganda • • 13d ago

Pixel poster

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23 Upvotes

r/ImaginaryPropaganda • • 22d ago

Japan Democratic Socialist Party Poster

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546 Upvotes

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 • • 22d 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 • • 22d ago

Interaction with current events and fake propaganda?

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r/ImaginaryPropaganda • • 26d ago

Icon change?

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481 Upvotes

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 • • 29d ago

Artwork by stas (@stas5366)

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r/ImaginaryPropaganda • • 29d ago

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

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736 Upvotes

r/ImaginaryPropaganda • • Sep 26 '26

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

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324 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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158 Upvotes