Media criticism has always depended on the assumption that someone made a decision — that a propagandist chose which bodies to show, which voices to amplify, which frame to cut to. That assumption is what makes representation analysis possible: you can interrogate the choices because choices were made by agents with interests. Generative systems produce content through statistical processes that have no author in the sense criticism requires. When a user watched someone attempt representation analysis on an AI-generated Iranian wartime propaganda video and concluded it signaled "well maybe these…