At first glance, the chaos of the video it seems shocking. A New York City school principal, brandishing a bat, stops by in a mask ICE agents from trying to enter the building, and instead of violence, the encounter erupted with cheers from the spectators. “Let me show you why they call me bat girl,” she told them. on other clips like this, a server flings a bowl of hot noodles at two officers dining at a Chinese restaurant, and a shop owner changes his Fourth Amendment rights. None of the encounters ended in bloodshed.

The videos, equal parts tense and bombastic, are also clearly AI-generated. They are part of a constellation of anti-ICE AI content that has spread on social media since the federal occupation in Minneapolis—part of the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigrants—resulted in the agents’ killing of two US citizens in January. The two Renee Nicole Gooda 37 year old mother of three, and Alex Prettya 37-year-old US Department of Veterans Affairs ICU nurse, was unarmed when they were shot by government officials.

In America, the role of fantasy—the act of imagining a better world and putting action behind it to make it a reality—is paramount in times of political upheaval. The videos, with millions of views on Facebook and Instagram, offer a blend of revisionist justice that imagines a digital multiverse where ICE agents are just like us: not above the rule of law.

In general, the anti-ICE AI videos are a way for people to push back against distortions painted by the Trump administration and MAGA influencers to justify their actions, said AI creator Nicholas Arter. “In the last decade, social media served that role by giving a voice to people who did not have access to traditional media. It is not surprising that with AI, another major change in technology, we see the same patterns repeated, that people use the tools available to express emotions, fear, or resistance.” But even if they feel cathartic, the videos themselves are also a type of distortion. There may be consequences, whether it reinforces the narrative that people of color are agitators, or makes the public more skeptical of the real evidence of the video.

An account named Mike Wayne, whose owner has denied multiple requests, is considered one of the biggest posters in the genre. The account has uploaded more than 1,000 videos, mostly of people of color fighting ICE agents to its Instagram and Facebook pages since Good was shot on January 7. Overall, the clips read like digital counter narratives: a clip of ICE agents taking perp goa Latina woman RIPPING an officer, oa priest pushing masked officials from the doors of his church, announcing, “I don’t know what god you worship, maybe an orange, but my god is love.” (In fact, federal agents arrested nearly 100 clergy members last week during a protest at the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport, from which faith leaders said an estimated 2,000 people were turned away.)

The videos create an alternate timeline, where the passion and anger of Americans resisting federal occupation of their cities doesn’t cost lives—and accountability actually matters. Wayne’s one most viewed clips of an ICE agent fighting white tailgaters at a sporting event, a vision so surreal that it was viewed 11 million times in less than 72 hours. “Down with facism,” said a man in the background. Humor also plays an important role in these fanfiction-style videos. In a clip posted by meme account RealStrangeAI, four drag queens in neon wigs chased ICE officers through a neighborhood in St.