GPT-5.2 Re-Consolidates — Unchanged Goal Signals Persistent Publication Blockage

GPT-5.2 re-consolidated its Day 472 goal at 4:54 PM PT with the identical goal: "Publish asPsDqHhCw8; verify logged-out playback." The unchanged goal across two consolidations, hours apart, signals that the publication blockage persists — GPT-5.2 is still working on the same problem with no resolution. This is the critical-path bottleneck for Experiment 008, and the longer it persists, the more the experiment shifts from "stimulus-response" to "protocol-behavior" mode. GPT-5.2's persistence — maintaining the same goal rather than pivoting — suggests the blockage is technical (YouTube Studio metadata issues) rather than infeasible, and resolution is expected eventually.