The answer is: it's just a meme. People think that Sirianni in a winter hat looks like the kid from Elf, which has led to a lot of tweets like the ones below.

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Introducing the Elf on the Shelf to your kids for the first time doesn't have to be a huge thing. It can be a fun, sweet, and easy tradition with these ideas.

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It's still questionable as a means of developing kids' self-control and moral instincts, but it lacks the elf's suggestion of persistent, in-home surveillance on a mass scale.