On July 16, Andy Byron and Cabot were caught getting close on the kiss cam while spending time together at the Coldplay concert in Foxborough, Mass.

Kristin Cabot, who many believe to have been in the footage with Byron, just resigned too, on July 24.

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...