Oh, dude. DUDE. How does Steve view the viral spread of the photos? On the one hand he's a really private person and the original violation was bad enough, and now he has to deal with being violated a hundred million times over again. I mean, every complete stranger who recognizes him in the street is probably looking at him and seeing the pictures of him naked with blood and come smeared on the backs of his thighs. BUT... it's also a torture scandal. A high-profile one with gut-wrenching iconic images attached, and Steve is conscious of the power of images to expose atrocities to the public. And since the vein of authoritarian security-hysteria that let Hydra flourish within SHIELD came from somewhere, the post-CA:TWS fallout in the MCU probably gave birth to all sorts of crackpot Hydra-was-right grassroots movements and general apologism...
Then finally he decides he's had enough and gives a blistering two-minute public statement about nu!Hydra and their tactics. Because he can (miserably) put up with being exposed, scrutinized, derided, and made into the punchline of everyone's rape jokes--but by God, he isn't going to take it lying down from people who'll roll right over for fascist crackdowns on the off-chance that some bad guy, somewhere out there, might conceivably want to do something bad to them. If he has to be in the spotlight as a public figure, he might as well make the most of it by daring these bastards to tell him to his face that innocent patriotic Americans have nothing to fear.
What's that? You in the back? No, it's still none of People magazine's goddamn business whether or not he's in therapy.
Re: Hydra/Steve goes viral
So imagine: a miserable Steve avoiding paparazzi, forcing himself not to look at the internet or at the supermarket-checkout magazine racks, refusing all invitations to come debate his basic human dignity on talk shows or answer sob-story questions about his masculinity for magazine exposés. Trying to go about his Avengers business and stay clear of the media frenzy, which is some awful mashup of gossipy rape scandal, celebrity sex-tape leak, and partisan football about who the real disgrace to America is/whose opponents are bad people who need to be cracked down on because they hate freedom.
Then finally he decides he's had enough and gives a blistering two-minute public statement about nu!Hydra and their tactics. Because he can (miserably) put up with being exposed, scrutinized, derided, and made into the punchline of everyone's rape jokes--but by God, he isn't going to take it lying down from people who'll roll right over for fascist crackdowns on the off-chance that some bad guy, somewhere out there, might conceivably want to do something bad to them. If he has to be in the spotlight as a public figure, he might as well make the most of it by daring these bastards to tell him to his face that innocent patriotic Americans have nothing to fear.
What's that? You in the back? No, it's still none of People magazine's goddamn business whether or not he's in therapy.