I just tried it again and it resolved to a Patreon nag-box. As I’m using Firefox, my usual reaction to things like that is to go to Reader View so I just get the article text.

Started reading the article, scrolled down a little, then a pop-up started at the bottom of the screen with a “loading” spinner that never loaded anything, so it was stuck and couldn’t be closed. While it was there, scrolling froze so the article became unreadable.

Perhaps it’s throwing tantrums at my adblocker, but the website that article is on is pretty unuseable as well.