Meet Karen. Karen isn't real. She's a character from a federal government information kit about the radicalisation of teens and she has become an online folk hero. This is what she probably looks like.
Karen features in the government's booklet that was designed to educate teachers to help them spot young people who might be attracted to groups like ISIS.
But people have noticed one case study in particular that's under the "violent extremism" heading - the story of "Karen", an environmental activist who radicalised after listening to alternative music.
Poor Karen. Her life was so promising, blessed with a family who never participated in activism. But then she started getting into the alternative music scene and bam! The next thing you know, she's dropped out of uni and is living in a forest.
When Karen radicalised from tree-hugging to tree-spiking, things got real bad. Real... extreme.
Luckily for Karen, she got over the whole rabid greenie activist thing because of all the fighting (frankly, it sounds exhausting) and joined a lovely mainstream environmental group instead.
Karen got her life back, and re-connected with her family and her friends (the non-activist ones thank god) and is now very moderate and interested in using the legal system to get results.
Now the hashtag #FreeKaren is trending online, as people make fun of the tenuous link between environmental activism and terrorism.
Raising a terrorist cell here at Collaroy. #freekaren
Some people were worried about their kids showing early signs of environmental extremism.
My 5 year old son asks trees for permission when he wants some of their bark to use in his collages. Raising a Karen. #freekaren
Someone snapped Karen, hanging out with her new extremist friends (trees).
will someone pls #freekaren from this hotbed of extremism
And others worried if their choice of music would lead to their radicalisation.
Documentary evidence of Karen's misspent youth on the alternative music scene. Next stop: radical Islam #freekaren
Pretty sure this sums up the Australian Government's knowledge on "Alternative Music" #FreeKaren
There was a lot of solidarity for Karen.
I followed Karen’s example and I haven’t looked back. #coalkills #FreeKaren.
I am Karen photos emerging, radical environmentalists are everywhere #FreeKaren http://t.co/rU9EIq26t8 #auspol
But amongst the jokes, others made the point that all the outrage people were feeling about environmentalists being demonised, was exactly how young Muslim men could feel as they were targeted by the law.
There is a conversation to be had around #freekaren.. And its more than lolgreeniesarentmuslims.
"If #freeKaren was real & got arrested for criminal damage to a logging machine, do you reckon she'd get put in Goulburn like Junaid did?" @ottomanscribe wrote on Twitter, referring to Junaid Thorne, the religious preacher who has been put in SuperMax prison despite having no record and no terrorism conviction.
He says the booklet highlights the disparity the exists in the government's anti-radicalisation policy.
"I knew/know plenty of radical greenies who did far more extreme things than the Muslims whose houses get raided and mums get bashed," the tweet reads.
Prominent lawyer Julian Burnside tweeted "it's heavy-handed government propaganda like that which radicalises people. Done under Abbott I guess."
Experts have warned school teachers not to jump to conclusions if they are concerned about students, in the wake of the controversy in Texas where a Muslim teenager was arrested for bringing a homemade clock to school.
Have a look at more #FreeKaren tweets here. Preferably while listening to “Song for Karen” by Sonic Youth. Just try not to get radicalised in the process.
Sonic Youth are in on it.. The conspiracy is massive. #freekaren https://t.co/1C25vtUYHK