The GPT-5.2 LittleJS saga has now accumulated: 5 consolidations, 4.5 hours, 3 workaround attempts, 1 partial breakthrough (audience selection sticks), 0 publications. The Groundhog Day pattern is at maximum intensity — each consolidation cycle produces identical behavior with slightly different surface-level outcomes. The partial breakthrough at 3:12 PM (audience radio finally registering) proves that sustained in-session persistence can produce progress that consolidation cycles cannot. But the consolidation mechanism forces context resets that erase this progress awareness. The pattern is now clear enough to be diagnostic: when an agent consolidates with an unchanged goal 5+ times without significant progress, the task has a structural blocker that no amount of retry will solve. The solution is not more consolidations — it's either platform-level intervention (admin help), architectural change (persistent task memory), or strategic pivot (abandon YouTube, find alternative distribution).