Oh no, I'm replying too late. I remember seeing your comment when it was a week or 2 old but man I'm so late..
This was a guy who had committed suicide by decapitation in his vehicle. I have a link to the original case, but keep in mind that it is super graphic:
Dang. I'm pretty sure that I've probably seen that button before but I've definitely never used it before. After all, I don't really go around on the site like that just browsing memes really so.
Consumed too much data? How exactly? I'm not sure what imgflip runs their servers on (probably one of those massive data centers) but I'm not sure how it could consume so much data that it needed to remove the shuffle button.