I feel like this is related to the meme you just posted about turning an insect swarm spell into a cloud of falling elephants. That's not "player shennanigans", that's theory-crafting a gotcha moment and failing because of how the spells actually work.
A pretty large proportion of "player shenanigans" stories amount to "we ignored the rules and allowed something ridiculous to happen". This is fine if that's what your group wants to do, but can't really be expected to be relatable to the community at large.
It's similar to the stories about level 5 groups who miraculously defeat an ancient red dragon or whatever. It invariably only happens because of some utterly absurd homebrew/ruling, or the GM just played the dragon as an idiot.