Social media users have been raving about the similarities between what happened at the Coldplay concert and an alleged snippet from a decade-old episode of " The Simpsons ."

In her essay about the recent exposure of an affair on a Coldplay concert’s kiss cam, Ms. Schulman exhibits a common and troubling misunderstanding of the distinction between shame and humiliation.

The episode resulted in endless memes, parody videos and screenshots of the pair’s shocked faces filling social media feeds.