Yeah they did it with those kids with guns and created a persona in David Hogg. I just find it amusing that anyone would treat these children as experts in anything but anyone with a brain knows why they do it... because if you disagree with them you are being mean to a kid and that isn't nice...
Southpark kind of did something about this where they said "and since children are spearheading this you have to agree because if you don't it means you hate children... you don't HATE children, do you?"
here's the video for a laugh if you wanna see it
https://www.southparkstudios.com/video-clips/i8xmup/south-park-you-hate-children