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She was also immediately identified as such a threat to status-quo that a lot of effort went into associating her name with "cringe" and people pushed that kind of reaction real hard and it worked. I cannot believe how many arguments I had with other environmental leftists and liberals on places like reddit who hated her but had no idea why.
"Her message is great, but maybe we don't want her representing these causes" is the line a lot of people defaulted to, and when pressed, proceeded to drop the flimsiest and most half-assed reasoning like "Well her parents are wealthy so it looks bad" or "she's going to be a distraction" and other nonsense where people simply couldn't connect the lines and realize they were already influenced by manufactured "online reactions" and memes that associated her name with a "child doing public speaking" which makes people really uncomfortable.
Now she's an adult, she's remained consistent in her tone, messaging and passion, and people STILL connect her to "child making an ugly face while shaming grown ups" and this is why she's in so much danger right now. She's a threat to power and they used a lot of their bigger cards to smear her enough that a large portion of the world wouldn't mourn if she were "accidentally" killed in service of her messages.