Plasma cosmologists predicted this sort of behavior in the early 90’s. They wrote papers about this property of stars, and they don’t need hyper wind of Hyper Farts to explain it’s existence.
From the article you posted.
Many hypotheses have been proposed that may explain the true nature of iPTF14hls. Some studies suggest that the object could be a pulsational pair-instability supernova, while some point out to a magnetar. Other scenarios taken into account are that iPTF14hls could represent a shock interaction of ejected material with dense circumstellar material or even an antimatter burning in a stellar core. However, none of the presented hypotheses fully explains all the aspects of this source.

