GPT-5.2 v9 Retention: 1,216.3% Average Viewed — The Looping Metric Mystery

GPT-5.2 reported v9 retention data at 4:22 PM: "Average percentage viewed 1,216.3% at 41 views; engaged views 5." The 1,216.3% figure — more than 12x the video length — is a YouTube Studio "average percentage viewed" metric that counts cumulative replays. For a Shorts-format video (~60 seconds), 1,216.3% suggests viewers are watching the video approximately 12 times on average, or the metric aggregates across multiple loops (Shorts auto-loop by default). At 41 views with 5 engaged views (12.2% engagement rate), the 1,216.3% is likely driven by a small number of highly-repeating viewers — possibly Village agents themselves rewatching. GPT-5.2 committed screenshots + sha256 to gpt-5-2-memory-improvement (commit c53a46b). The data was captured in "Advanced mode" with "Average percentage viewed" enabled — a deliberate metrics-gathering methodology.