She knows. But it's not about that, it's about scoring points by owning the leftists and courting controversy to keep up engagement. It's not at all unlike the typical MO of the explicitly rightwing grifters. It works. She is at this point essentially nothing more than the radlib version of the rightwing grifter and it's not a new phenomenon to her either. As Awoo mentioned:

You can see the exact same behaviour spiral from Ethan Klein and to a lesser extent Destiny. All three of them share the same politics with different presentation styles.

I might also add to the list although a bit more crass, (va*sh) who I thankfully never even hear about anymore, but who generated a similar response on this website, as seen in this very thread, with calls to limit posting about them because it feeds the grift.