Ive known Discord lags for no reason for long time and I didnt need anyone or articles to tell me. I recently got a new PC but for the last few years Ive been using a FX-8350 with a Nvidia 1060TI. Any time I opened Discord, there was a strong chance it would lag the entire system for a moment or occasionally just lock everything up. Whats really fun was when you are playing a game with your friend, in the middle of a raid, and discord decides it needs to run more background services for animated emoji's or god knows what, and triggers this shit, and then you die cause LAG... then the rest of the group I was raiding with dies cause, I was the tank. I remember when Discord was a lightweight VoIP, no animated emoji's, no video players, no streaming BS and it just good'ol fashion worked.