The online discourse surrounding Malala Yousafzai and Greta Thunberg reveal changing expectations for activists on the left. | Todd Owyoung/NBC via Getty Images, Lluis Gene/AFP
You probably never thought you’d see Malala Yousafzai lip-syncing to a 4 Non Blondes/Nicki Minaj mash-up on TikTok with Jimmy Fallon. And yet the Nobel Peace Prize winner has spent the past couple of months churning out this sort of uncanny, “normie” content on social media. If anything, she’s aware of the irony. “Not me becoming chronically online,” she captioned one of her latest Instagram posts.
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