Well, it was a lot of frog-boiling.
You get a lot of people who at first accepted a thing because, what's it hurting me, right?
It's why anyone who tells you to accept little changes are so insidious. Eventually, you accept so many changes that things around you become unrecognizable and you get lost in a fog of helplessness wondering how to get the hell out of it.
Those of us who think and don't settle for nonsense saw it the whole time and are waking up the rest of us that have seen it the whole time, just didn't know how to express that they were manipulated and are pissed off about it.
Those people are the angriest of all, because they weren't just manipulated, they were also used. People have a tendency to backlash harder when they feel they've been used.
Love to see it, really.