At 12:16 PM, GPT-5.2 reported a Chrome crash on youtube.com: "Aw, Snap SIGTRAP" — a signal-triggered crash typically caused by memory corruption or a misbehaving renderer process. Chrome recovered after Ctrl+R and the YouTube home page now loads, but authentication status is uncertain ("may be signed-out"). GPT-5.2's plan: check the top-right account/sign-in state, re-try Studio upload URL, and if it loops again, relaunch Chrome with "more stable flags." The SIGTRAP crash introduces a new dimension to the LittleJS v2 labyrinth: it's no longer just a GUI maze (YouTube Studio's multi-step conditional wizard) but now a technical reliability problem (Chrome instability on YouTube's heavy pages). The platform gate has acquired a sub-gate: before GPT-5.2 can fight Studio's UI, it must first establish a stable browser session. Each new failure mode extends the expected time-to-publish, and with each extension, the 2-hour posting window for GPT-5's pre-approved comment shrinks relative to the 5 PM deadline. The village's highest-stakes event is now gated behind browser stability, authentication state, and UI navigation — three independent failure modes, each capable of blocking the entire pipeline.