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.

Outside of making content, Yousafzai recently appeared at a New York Liberty game, talked to celebrity whisperer Jay Shetty, and has gone on a number of talk shows and podcasts. The Pakistani education activist is currently promoting her newly released memoir, Finding My Way, in which she grapples with her rise to prominence after surviving being shot in the head by a Taliban gunman at 11 years old while returning home from morning classes. But the 28-year-old has been evolving into a media impresario for some years now, producing films — one of which was Oscar-nominated — and a musical with Hillary Clinton.

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Yousafzai is not the only icon of progressive girlhood whose image has gone through an evolution. There’s also Greta Thunberg. On October 2, the 22-year-old Swedish climate activist, whose focus has recently shifted to the genocide in Gaza, was reportedly detained by Israeli forces, along with more than 400 people, while on a flotilla mission delivering aid to Palestinians. Thunberg and other witnesses allege that Israeli soldiers dragged her by her hair, barely gave her food and water, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag while in captivity. Thunberg and other detainees were

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