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120-Year-Old Greta Thunberg is a conspiracy theory based on a photograph of a young girl from the 1890s that resembles climate activist Greta Thunberg.

Origin

On November 15th, 2019, the YouTube ArtAleinTV shared the video "Greta Thunberg Found in 120 Year Old Photo ? ArtAlienTV." The video compares the appearance of Thunberg to that of a girl found in the "Three children operating rocker at a gold mine on Dominion Creek, Yukon Territory, ca. 1898" photograph by Eric A. Hegg (shown below, left).^[1] The video received more than 34,000 views in less than five days (video below, right).

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Three days later, on November 18th, Newsintact^[2] published a conspiracy theory on the photograph, calling her a time traveler.

That day, Twitter ^[3] user @JackSamStrange posted a photograph that compares the two. They wrote, "So, ‘Greta Thunberg’ is in a photo from 120 years ago, and it’s my new favourite conspiracy. Greta’s a time traveller, from the future, and she’s here to save us." The tweet received more than 28,000 likes and 9,600 retweets in less than three days (shown below).

Over then next week, more people began posting about the conspiracy theory and calling the girl in the photograph Thunberg (examples below, left and right).

Several media outlets covered the photograph, including the New York Post,^[4] People,^[5] Daily Mail^[6] and more.

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