The paintings were an amazing protest.

As a way to garner media exposure, sure. But not as a way to galvanize public support, which is what actually matters unless you are just interested in performative virtue signaling.

Also love the protests interrupting plays. Meet complacent liberals at their stomping grounds.

You seem like you care more about generalizing people, and antagonizing them than actually changing their minds. So, thank you for further reinforcing OP's initial point I guess...

Yeah, I kinda thought that the backlash to those ones was mostly from people who weren't going to give a fuck anyways. If throwing soup on the glass that protects the mona lisa, or interrupting a play, is higher on tje chopping block than the actual issue at hand, then that's not the kind of person that was generally going to help anyways. Didn't understand the scale of the problem, might have agreed with you in principle or in spirit but realistically was going to do jack shit all to advance your cause, etc. Oh no! Whatever will they do next? Walk around naked? Put hot sauce packets underneath the toilet seats of city hall? Anybody seriously outraged at what is basically just some light politically-motivated ribbing needs their priorities rearranged, because shit is going to/needs to change much more for, you know, change to occur.

Another way of saying bullying. There is a reason why the protestors aren't blocking Sturgis.

Every bully is smart enough to punch down. So they go to places full of people who basically agree with them and wreck their day instead of doing the hard thing and dealing with people who don't agree with them. You think you are being clever but it is just being cowardly.