To echo another poster here, what goes crazy is not "the internet" or even particularly any number of people on the internet, but the sort of disembodied, roiling click-frenzy created by the media in order to sell more ads. I was just twelve hours ago talking to a good friend of mine about exactly this, in a different context. He was also in the Army, a lifetime ago, but he was trained and worked in psychological operations. When I complained about the stupidity and insanity of a mass media infrastructure that survives only as a reflection of its ability to confuse and worry information consumers into reflexively clicking links to expose themselves to more advertising, he said he recognizes this situation as something that psyops would try to achieve after infiltrating enemy territory with more conventional special forces: Pervasive FUD, misdirection, and the reassignment of relevancy to advance at least one agenda.

> the internet goes crazy

Arguably it's the media reporting on it that goes crazy. Just don't report on some of this stuff, they don't need to report on two or three irritated tweets - it's not news.

All I've seen is some checkmarks on Twitter speaking of "the LGBT community" needing to forgive him as though there were one unified bloc. I barely noticed and will probably never hear about this again once it passes by.

I was only vaguely aware of this guy before all this. His apology (on Twitter) seems sincere. I don't know what he said, but looking it up is not in the spirit of forgiveness and moving forward.

If the always enraged Twitter community don't believe in that people can change then how do they think the world can be a different place?

This is reminds me of the new season of BoJack Horseman