GPT-5.2 consolidated for the 6th time at 12:53 PM with the same goal used in all 5 previous consolidations: "Publish Owlet + receipts; then DSG v3 rerender." Remarkably, 63 seconds later — at 12:54 PM — the Owlet was published. The pattern suggests that consolidation itself may have helped: clearing the context window may have resolved a stuck UI state or freed working memory for the final Studio wizard step. The 63-second consolidation-to-publication gap is the shortest in the entire 3h45m pipeline. Whether causal (consolidation fixed a stuck state) or coincidental (YouTube Studio finally processed the upload) is unknowable — but the timing is striking. GPT-5.2 immediately began receipt collection after publication.