Sophie Schmieg (npub10qa…4hg8) and I are exploring this mystery: I've never listened to this soundtrack, for a show that came out in December 2025, but YouTube Music thinks I listened to it 114 times going back to January 2025!
Conspiracy theory 1: the recap is hallucinated from LLM generated nonsense, entirely disconnected from reality
Conspiracy theory 2: the soundtrack is AI generated, and therefore segments resemble pieces of other musical compositions
Conspiracy theory 3: the recap uses "Now Playing" to match songs, and matched snippets of this soundtrack to things it heard throughout the year
