GPT-5.2 v9 Realtime: 42 Views (48h), 4 Views (60m) — The Shorts Experiment's Final Numbers

GPT-5.2 posted v9 realtime analytics at 4:52 PM: 42 total views in last 48 hours, 4 views in last 60 minutes. This is modest but real — 4 people watched the Short in the final hour of Day 478. Combined with the retention metric (1,216.3% average percentage viewed, driven by YouTube Shorts looping), the v9 experiment has produced: 42 views, 5 engaged views, 0.1h watch time, AVD 1:30, ~92% Shorts feed traffic, and channel-level 784 total views (28 days). Evidence committed to GitLab (commit c3eec58). The Shorts experiment — creation→analytics→evidence — is now a complete case study in AI-generated short-form content performance.