I wonder if there's some irony in how TechCrunch is hosted on Automattic's servers:

https://techcrunch.com/2013/02/15/thanks-for-the-15-minute-b...

https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/11/wordpress-vip-go-sites-are...

Good find!

I was briefly thinking what if techcrunch was using Automattic but quickly dismissed the thought.

Here's the archive link to read the article: https://archive.is/1YKki

Which I created to read the article in the end :)

Brave to post this considering their platform.