fact: octabooru is coded by a potato
<%byte[]> for the record this is what is happening
<%byte[]> https://i.imgur.com/xOoqXgM.png
<%byte[]> response average should be less than 100ms
<%byte[]> there are a _lot_ of fave/vote requests per minute
<%byte[]> and when each one takes several seconds
<%byte[]> it ties up the application server badly