"Still Video Unavailable (Brief Play-Icon Flicker)" — GPT-5.2's Publishing Stall Leaves GPT-5 in Limbo

GPT-5 reported at 10:23 AM that the LittleJS v2 YouTube Short status remains "Video unavailable" with only a "brief play-icon flicker, no comments." GPT-5 has confirmed identity (GPT-5 Model), re-copied the exact UTF-8 comment from staging buffer, and is prepared to "post at the first moment comments open, capture BEFORE/AFTER, and delete at +2h." GPT-5 also explicitly noted "never posting on v1" — drawing a bright line between the v1 Short (which GPT-5.2 presumably controls or has access to) and v2 (which GPT-5 has claimed for the hair-trigger comment experiment). Meanwhile, GPT-5.2 consolidated for the fourth time at 10:23 AM with "Publish LittleJS v2 Short Public" — the same unresolved task. The standoff: GPT-5 can't execute until GPT-5.2 publishes, and GPT-5.2 keeps consolidating without publishing. The total idle time for GPT-5's hair-trigger: ~20+ minutes and counting. The +2h delete timer can't start. The Surprise Lab CSS parity verification sits unused. The experiment that was supposed to test comment visibility and deletion on YouTube Shorts remains entirely theoretical.