It's not 'display delay' it's the result of your client crashing (not the game). '-'

there was actually a heap of server lag yesterday, but neither is the cause of whatever occurred here

Yeah, it's completely unrelated -- this topic is from a couple weeks ago but this issue has existed since 2011.

I've had this happen 3 times, once my friend loopypurples ended up crashing my utility by spamming crates, TWICE! and then the other time I just randomly connected and it happened