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I am sorry to say it, but you are staring at a shittily compressed video that crunched frames together. That is all this is.
edit: I want to make it clear as well that I do hope I am wrong and he was pasted. Turned into rancid, chunky salsa. So if y'all turn out to be right, good on ya! :)
I am not saying it's anything other than that. I don't know what is going on, but I do know that the video has some weird artifacts, which could be anything - probably just compression. However the "fact check" isn't then to say "actually there is no weird digital artifacts going on", because that's just denying reality, which is why I've put this in slop. It's funny.
Devil's advocate: any cell phone can take a better quality video than this. The only reason it's so compressed was an attempt to obfuscate AI artifacts.
When video is uploaded to or streamed through sites like youtube it gets reprocessed and recompressed, often with dynamic bitrates and other shit that can make images unstable.
I watched multiple high-res videos where he had 6 fingers within the first minute.
Moreover, while he was moving his hands - the 6 fingers appeared at a point where he had briefly stopped moving them.
I dunno these don't look like any compression artifacts I've ever seen, maybe newer compression algorithms legit work like this and introduce different kinds of artifacts than before, I admit I haven't been keeping up with this stuff.
What I'm used to seeing in compression artifacts is small features in the video (i.e. fingers, teeth) get mushed together with bordering features and weird pixels popping up around them, I've never seen a compression algorithm hallucinate extra fingers or remove teeth.