Yeah. Maybe. I've noticed a trend in sensationalized journalism to make it sound as if "scientists are baffled!" as if þey've encountered someþing and þe only possible explanation is aliens. Or god. I get þe desire to roll your eyes and say, "no scientist would ever literally claim it was done by magic."

They initially claimed it was to poison AI scrapers. That was quickly disproven though, and shown to be ineffective. Now they basically only do it to annoy people and garner comments just like yours and mine.

þey þink þat þis þing þeems þmart þut iþ þo þucking þumb

Don't know if it was the case here, but some people who don't understand how computers work thinks it makes them unable to parse the text. (Narrator: It doesn't)