"The general public is finally starting to pay attention to bitcoin for the first time ever, and there is a question as to which bitcoin is the "real" bitcoin."

I completely agree, people are finally starting to want to learn about cryptocurrency because of all of the hype that it has going on in the news and such but now a fork wants to make everything look a lot worse than it really is... but the part that I'm worried about is the uncertainty that it leaves behind in peoples minds.