OMG they really do.
I remember when I lived in Germany, French Truckers had a protest where they parked hundreds of trucks on highways and basically shut down the highways in France.
You know how the French people reacted?
They brought the truckers food and water so they would not go hungry.
The solidarity of the French is no bullshit!
The concept you are talking about is a called a Denial of Service (DOS) attack. Typcially that is down with malware, there is another type that uses bots that is called a Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attack. In a DOS attack the malware overwhelms the capabilities of a website, email server, ftp server etc to the point where it fails.
If the number of people browsing the site do not overwhelm the site it won’t cost the company shit. Any CDN/web hosting company worth a damn will have the capacity to handle the black Friday weekend surge.
No it is weird and creepy.
The person you think you loved doesn’t even exist anymore and it is highly likely they never did.
You had a childhood crush. Leave it to the sweet memory of the past.
I can relate. My mom would make little snide comments about how i was a picky eater and how i would check everything i took out of the fridge.
One time i got sick of hearing it and biting my tongue so i went off.
I told her, her cooking was fucking terrible and she never cleaned out her fridge so there would always be rotting food in there. She was a Brit who grew up in that countries decade long depression.