akuperma, a good point on paintings. Note that early film was also affected.
On one hand, WW1 introduced the war into people’s homes – Brits saw the horrible newsreels and did not like it. At the same time, Hollywood was creating new realities in their movies, and then first Soviets and after them Nazis introduced total deep fake movies, rewriting history and present. Soviets created early movies about heroic history of the country, then about peasants dancing happily in 1930s (while they were actually dying from hunger when government took their grain away). Nazis made newsreel showing Polish mob breaking into Jewish stores and then German police restoring peace (omitting German soldiers who bussed the mob and stood with guns behind the camera).
This underscores Jewish idea of reading and discussing texts. Imagery is avodah zora – when you “see” something, it is very hard to not believe it is real … “I saw it with my own eyes”. Reading lets you think and consider the logic of the events. So, let’s not waste this opportunity to think by throwing garbage texts at each other!