Hating Greta

Part ten of the Jordan Center virtual Zoom lecture series "Russian Internet Memes: The Short Course" led by Eliot Borenstein, NYU Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies.

Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg became a media sensation in 2018, inevitably making her a memetic sensation as well.  In the US, the Left loved her and the Right hated her, and the range of memes about Greta reflected this divide.  Russian social media veered much more strongly into the Anti-Greta camp, as Russian-language memes demonstrate.  What is it about Greta Thunberg that sparked so much animosity?

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