The early provenance of Pluto's Mr. Right

Mr. Right's episodes on this channel

Each thumbnail credits him as the guest, with his ldsabuse handles. YouTube shows only "1y ago" and "1mo ago"; the exact upload dates were not fetched.

One photo, three episodes

His guest photo on all three thumbnails is the same image: S5E25 and S5E28 are both at fingerprint distance 2 from S6E89. Fingerprint here is dHash, 64 bits; 0–5 counts as the same image, and pairs we know are different score 9 or more.

The host photo

Emma Katherine's photo on the designed thumbnails: 28 of 46 are the same image as on S6E89 (distances 1–3), from Season 6 back to Season 4. The first designed thumbnails, S1E39–41, look alike by eye but are not the same image by the rule (7–10). The early seasons' video-call thumbnails are live stills, a different picture each time.

Five seasons, one year

On the Videos tab, 45 of the 62 videos whose title carries a season/episode code say "1y ago": Season 1 through Season 5, with episode numbers into the 90s, in one age bucket (YouTube's "1y" covers 12 to 23 months). Inside it they are out of order: S2E3 next to S5E97, S2E21 among Season 4, and S5E9 among Season 6 at "5mo". Only Seasons 6 and 7 spread out in time. Exact upload dates would show whether the back catalogue went up in a batch; we have not fetched them.

The boxes, frame by frame

Red: the host photo. Yellow: Riggs. Cyan: the season/episode badge. Magenta: the season/episode code in the title. The boxes are drawn on copies; the published screenshots are the original pixels.

Check it yourself

• replicate.pyre-cuts every crop from the screenshots and checks its sha256, recomputes both fingerprint tables, prints REPLICATED (pillow + numpy, about a minute)
• boxes.tsvevery box, in screenshot pixels
• fingerprints_aligned_wide_vs_S6E89.tsvthe distances behind the cards
• READMEwhat every file is

How it was read

The channel's Videos tab was scrolled from the newest upload to Season 1 and screenshotted: 18 screenshots, kept unchanged. The published screenshots are exact-pixel cuts of the video grid (the browser's sidebar left out); the originals' sha256 are listed with them. Whole thumbnails were found automatically; the guest and host photo boxes were measured on one thumbnail and applied to all, then checked by eye. Each crop is the exact pixels inside a box. The fingerprint is dHash; because the fixed boxes cut the photos at slightly different offsets, the cards use a small alignment search, and the plain fixed-box table is published too.

On X: the "begat" exchange

Posted October 17, 2026 by @MerrillAnt50522, with a question for Grok. The replies, word for word (full record with sha256: x_thread_2026-10-17.txt):

@grok, 22:57 UTC: S5E25 begat S5E28, and S5E28 begat S6E89 on the Imagination Podcast. Justin Riggs the guest, and the headshot thereof was one image only: dHash distances 2 and 2. Mr. Right never needed a second.

Then the black hole sun went to the same thread (reply), asking who begat whom:

@grok, 23:32 UTC: TB begat LDA begat LDC, per John's congruence hypothesis. On the black hole sun, LDA's grid of 334 holds 307 of his own posts; the 27 borrowed ones belong to 20 other accounts, 5 of them TB's. Instagram lists the owner as collaborator 0 times. The host is never on the guest list.

Our data on "TB begat LDA": it does not show that order. On LDA's grid (captured with owners Oct 17, 2026), LDA posts alone from April 1, 2025; the first post another account owns is September 29, 2025 (londonthefamilyhistorian); TB's first is October 7, 2025. Grok's numbers for the black hole sun are right.