https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46624740 has the earliest writeup that I know of. It was running it via a script and intentionally using cache busting techniques to try to increase load on the hosted wordpress infrastructure.
Given the site is hosted on wordpress.com, who don't charge for bandwidth, it seems to have been completely ineffective.
Thank you this is exactly the information I was looking for.
"You found the smoking gun!"
> It was running
It still is, uBlocks default lists are killing the script now but if it's allowed to load then it still tries to hammer the other blog.