The media creates that impression on purpose by choosing who they interview.

Perhaps. But was it wrong? Like, the women’s march when trump was elected. Many many people. Lots of them genuinely angry. Was it a serious protest... ehhh maybe?

Yes it was wrong, which will become clear if you spend any time with the people who were involved. Which you can very much still do, because the coalitions and communities formed during that movement are still active today, struggling against the rise of fascism in the US.

If that's the case, it would be wise for the leaders of OWS to correct that narrative.

The narrative I understood was that there were basically no leaders

True. David Graeber wrote about this in The Utopia of Rules, where he explained that OWS was essentially felled by bureaucratic demands that it could not satisfy without formally organizing. An interesting lesson in the practical realities of anarchism.