This is terrible optics, but In fairness, she didn't get fired, they're just not renewing her contract, and the program as whole kind've seems like it's shutting down sooner than later. Not really sure what they thought they were going to do with this, really.
Assuming you're like me, and you usually just have a Coli tab just sitting around, Chrome is pretty mad about memory usage in general, but I've noticed its worse for tabs that hang around forever.
That said, most of it is the shitty ads. Those tiny autoplay video ads, and the full screen inline...
Gotdamn, brehs. Our shit really went out sad without a proper sendoff thread or anything. At least when SOHH died, we had folks who stuck around for a little while to direct people to The Coli.