Couldn’t have happened to a nastier bunch of misfits.

An Austrian climate action group that attacked a Gustav Klimt masterpiece and regularly blocked roads has announced it is disbanding, saying it had no chance of success after being fined thousands of euros. 

Last Generation Austria said it struggled to make its point against “ignorance… death threats and fines of tens of thousands of euros”, and was in a state of despair over the Austrian government’s inaction on climate change. 

“We no longer see any prospect of success,” the group said in a statement.

The Telegraph says cult was notorious blocking roads and airport runways along with disrupting numerous public events. They were obviously too active that it garnered the scrutiny of authorities.

The activists regularly made headlines over the past two years, blocking streets and pouring black liquid over a screen protecting Klimt’s masterpiece Death And Life in Vienna’s Leopold Museum.

Last month, the group joined protests to disrupt traffic at several airports in Europe just days after the European Union’s climate monitor registered the hottest day ever globally, with the daily average temperature inching up to 17.15°C (62.87°F).

However, the group isn’t shutting down, a spokeswoman says they’re just changing their stripes.

“The campaign has reached a point where closure makes sense and makes room for a new path.” The “last generation”, like the protests in its previous form, is ended, with the activists not seeing the “last generation” primarily as a group like an NGO, but as a campaign. Make room “so that something new can emerge”.

After doing this to a classical painting, the group deserves it and if the cultists re-emerge as another entity, hopefully, they’ll be scrutinized like before.