Woman from Coldplay kiss cam blasts Gwyneth Paltrow. Was the mocking too much?

Kristin Cabot, one half of the \

Kristin Cabot, one half of the "Coldplay Kiss Cam" incident, is blasting Gwyneth Paltrow and others who capitalized on the viral moment, saying they did so without thinking about how the added attention impacted the lives of those involved.

"In the initial moments, I'm sure it was funny to people. I can appreciate that," Cabot said on "The Oprah Podcast" on March 17. "I just don't think people really stop and think about there's real humans behind this and it is incredibly destructive."

Media and psychology experts say it’s not uncommon to obsess over others’ cringey moments and mistakes because it makes us feel better about ourselves. It’s a phenomenon called schadenfreude − when we find pleasure, joy and satisfaction in others’ troubles, failures or pain − that ultimately reveals more about us than them. 

"We like watching people make this climb to wealth and status, but once they actually get there, one of the only narrative threads left is to watch them fall," Robert Thompson, founding director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture at the Newhouse School of Public Communications Syracuse University, previously told USA TODAY. "We do get a lot of schadenfreude pleasure out of that if you look at a lot of the examples of stories we tell."

Cabot said she specifically found Paltrow's involvement in the uproar "really disappointing." The actress and businesswoman made a mock ad as the “temporary spokesperson” of Astronomer, the tech company that employed Cabot at the time.