The incident even caught the attention of other bands. Oasis lead singer Liam Gallagher told a crowd gathered in Manchester, England, at the band's reunion tour over the weekend not to worry, because they don't have any of that "Coldplay snidey f‑‑‑ing camera s‑‑‑."

In this distressing American moment, who knew that what our nation needed was a canoodling pair having their affair put on blast at a Coldplay concert?

If there’s a lesson from so-called Coldplaygate, it’s the extent to which, during the past decade or so of digital culture, going viral has gone from being an aspirational goal to a form of punishmen...