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I think the media coverage drop off is due to her getting older (and thus more "ordinary" - less newsworthy), and due to her not changing her issues or opinions much (and thus there is nothing "new," to report). Our newstainment system wants new and fresh and cute. Not serious and persistent.
The ship she was planning on boarding to Gaza was literally attacked by Israel.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Gaza_Freedom_Flotilla_incident
There is plenty newsworthy here.
Counterpoint: Israel attacks absolutely everything around it for no fukken reason, so nit newsworthy.
You are not wrong, but I don’t want to admit that you are right since it’s so depressing
I like that. You're not wrong but I don't wanna admit you're right.
Counter-counter-point: Greta is a story of violence against a pretty white girl which all else being equal would normally mean big media attention in western media. But it isn’t getting much attention because it doesn’t play into the interests of the western corpo-state.
Contrast the coverage of what happened to Greta to the recent shooting of the Israeli diplomats.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=F7-V9ImpGJE
I don’t think I’ve heard her called pretty before, she’s certainly not known for her looks (good or bad).
This Statement is ANTI SEMETIC! You LOVE HITLER!
-The ADL!
Don't derail the attention somewhere else. News are mostly about the same popular people who have been under the spotlight for decades, there actually no much space for neither fresh or cute. It is implied in the picture why the media coverage drop.
And where are the huge climate protests like back in the day? That's what she was talking about that gave her coverage and now we don't talk about it anymore...
how dare you
You think wrong
Nah. She just doesn't really have anything to say. "Carbon bad" isn't really a message in 2025.
She's an activist in that she gets arrested a lot but there's plenty of people really achieving things that don't have the social media clout she does.
She also doesn't have any special credibility. Why would you interview a serial protester when you could interview an expert.
As an aside I've learned that any thing less than breathless support for her on lemmy will earn a deluge of downvotes. So have at me dweebs - express your support for this tapped out child star with your spiciest downvote.
Whining about downvotes? That's a downvote.
Sometimes i even downvote people i agree with for bitching about downvotes lmao
Hah. Not whining at all. Just acknowledging that my opinion on this is not a popular one, while antagonising the 14 year olds who admire her.
I'm 45 and I'm inclined to agree with most of what she says.
51 and same, but maybe I'm just naive in wanting a world where my future grandchildren might be able to see a field full of fireflies once again.
I didn't say I don't agree with her. I'm saying she doesn't have any special credibility. I'd rather hear from an expert on climate change and mitigation thanks.
She hit the news 7 years ago. Anyone that has heard about her is likely voting age by now. Shaking your fist at the clouds?
News about her generally irritates conservatives who go out of their way to criticize and mock her. So I while I am generally aware of her and admire her commitment to the environment, her ability to get press that annoys the conservative ultra capitalists who hate windmills and solar fields gives me joy. She just triggers them while never thinking about them.
You're a whiner and an AH
Sure mate.
Hubris detected. Opinion ignored.
She is just trying to raise awareness (and it made some progress), despite all the wrong things you think about her, true or not, the effect is net positive to the planet. Do you hate living on a planet with fewer disasters that much? Do you hate people who try to make the world a better place? Please help me see this from your point of view.
You don't have any evidence of that though do you. Everyone's aware of climate change.
This is kind of my point about Lemmy users. I haven't said anything bad about her, but my comment was not vapid loyalty so here we are.
This is a really silly question.
I don't hate people who try, but I get very frustrated by people who want to celebrate ineffective trying.
There are people who are actually making progress on mitigating the impacts of climate change. Greta is not one of them.
A lot of kids who follow her probably changed to a more sustainable, more environment friendly lifestyle. And I see a lot more young people veering towards sustainable projects.
But I guess that won't make a nice and easy graph for you. Does it?
I don't particularly like her, but I have a problem with people downplaying and demeaning activism. It's so rampant on reddit in any kind of protest post that doesn't blow up to front page, you would almost feel they're being targeted to lessen their reach. Just deflecting, derailing, demeaning any chance they get. The astroturfing is insane.
As long as they're not making off money for themselves, hiding nefarious intent behind a cause, then getting sponsored and bought, let them do their activism for good.
It's not that your intuition doesn't make a graph, it's that I have a strong suspicion that Gretas efforts at "raising awareness" are counter productive.
She's precisely the wrong type of person to influence the kind of people who need to change their behaviour. She's great at preaching to the choir, but that's not going to save us.
Activism for the sake of activism is counter productive, because it makes people feel like they've done something to address the problem.
Excuse me while I go update my Facebook profile photo with whatever banner makes me look clever this week.