EU citizens have turned into pests overnight.EU citizens turned into "pests" two years ago. Much like Y2K was a "pest" years before January 1, 2000. But unlike EU regulations, Y2K was like The Terminator: there was no appeal process, and it absolutely would not stop...ever, until you fix your Y2K bugs.
GDPR OTOH, eh, maybe there's some way to wiggle out of it? And two years later, when Compliance Day comes, here we are.