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Other replies have indicated, surely incontrovertibly, that this is some sort of automated framework gone wrong (or wrong-er); but, in that case, I think a question is: what's changed so that that automated framework has discovered 127.0.0.1 now, and not before?

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My money's on someone running a Plex server (or something similar) on their own machine, then going to reddit and saying "I have a copy of [X], you can watch it here:" with a link to 127.0.0.1 (since that's how they watch it, so why wouldn't it work for anyone else?).

I.E. We're dealing with the intersection of an automated framework with a "normal."

Probably someone forgetting to comment out some debug code or whatever... it doesn't take much imagination to see how this might happen.

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