As far as I know the events started with a tiny tragedy that ignited the powder keg. It takes no internet or special software to do this - it's not unlike what happened in East Europe around '90.

The regime was old, it was hollowed out, brittle, and it disintegrated once challenged on the streets.

It seems to me to be over-the-top ego-centricism to think that topics that attracted our attention recently were relevant in this case.