Like the FLOTUS body double crap as well. I agree, it’s always been their go to and they’re really after it now.
Not a techie, just speculation. But my impression is that when they purge large amounts of data of the servers, it bogs them down for a while. They’re not really taking themselves down, servers just can’t handle everything efficiently at that time. Like we get lag here during DDOS attacks and/or Q&A time. Just overloads servers. Maybe a techie will weigh in.