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Not really. Pretty much everyone who was angry is still angry. They just stopped posting about it constantly, because what's the point?

You don't know that, they might as well changed their opinion and are now too embarrassed to speak about it.

I think a lot of people were acting with pure emotion. Once the surprise subsides the logical reasoning kicks in and you get the bigger picture.

they might as well changed their opinion and are now too embarrassed to speak about it.

Do people do this? It seems like people who change their opinion are also vocal about it.

Note the phrase might as well. The example was a stab at how you can't make such assumptions.