If you look at the comments on her commits to the git repository, most of them aren't even code she wrote, but things other people wrote, and that she added to the repository. That said, I doubt that one guy wrote those thousands of lines he commited either. I don't know who really did what work, but I agree 100% that it is pretty fucked-up that while there were dozens of contributors, only one person is getting any praise in the media, and on social media - this one girl. What did she do that warrants her getting all the recognition?
And you're right, reddit's moderators deliberately buried anything but, yesterday, and today. I saw threads that were locked with nearly a quarter of the comments removed. Comments that did nothing more than point out what you just did.
Fed the public a piece of propaganda, and censor anything countering it. The question is: why?