This year, as it always does, nature took its course. Winter turned to spring, and then spring turned to summer, and your body knew what to do, perhaps without your brain even explicitly thinking it: Pack up the sledding implements, clean out the yard, and go to Home Depot to buy a grill. Get to a park or find some body of water and sun your face. And maybe you didn’t quite know this either, but your instincts operating on a level below the surface told you that somewhere on the Internet, Lady Gaga fans were trolling Ed Sheeran this whole time.

Yes, fans of Gaga ran Sheeran off Twitter because he had said some things they took to be disrespectful to their queen. The inciting incident occurred this January, when Sheeran told Zane Lowe in an interview on Beats 1 Radio, “I do not want to be the kind of artist who has had two successful albums and then feels invincible. . . . I have to know when to listen to people, or I'll end up like those artists you've interviewed in recent years. You've seen them become the biggest artists in the world, and then suddenly they will say, ‘I know everything!’ And just after, they are no longer at the top.”

Remember how Lady Gaga took a successful turn at the Super Bowl this past year? Her fans sure do. In an interview on Monday Sheeran told The Sun, “Lady Gaga’s fanbase read an interview in which they assumed I was talking about her and they all fucking hate. And it wasn't anything to do with that at all. So, I think Twitter gets on a massive steam roll of assuming things and then you get in the shit.”

He’s quit the platform in the interim, allowing automatic updates to populate his account. But Lady Gaga, a crusader against Internet bullies, did not let it slide. On the same day that The Sun published its interview, she posted an Instagram of the two with a message that reads, in short, “Please stop bothering Ed Sheeran.“

And just like that, all is as it should be. Droves of people were picking on a red-headed guitar plucker named Ed until Lady Gaga taught us how to be gracious in the face of perceived snubs. Now, whether or not Sheeran ever returns to Twitter, summer will eventually turn to fall, and fall to winter, and Gaga’s fans will find another way to wage war in her name. Such is way of the world.