The Coldplay concert affair captivated the internet. But is it time to move on?

Published July 21, 2025

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 quotes David Schmid in a story an incident at a July 17 Coldplay concert when lead singer Chris Martin inadvertently outed a pair of alleged cheating lovers on the playful KissCam. “Social media activity is an endless repeating cycle of controversy, outrage and our sacred right to say whatever we want about whoever we want with no consequences,” said Schmid. “Once we've chewed (a person) up and spat them out, we'll move to someone else, and so it goes on, ad nauseam, at a pace dictated by our ever-shrinking attention span.”

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