This F5 trick you all discovered is pretty wild. It essentially forces the system to treat your uploaded images as "generated image URLs," which is exactly why it unlocks the editing restrictions.
The best part? Because of how this works, you can actually intercept the payload and inject the "spicy" tag. This means you can finally generate spicy-mode videos directly from uploaded content again—something we haven't been able to do in over a year.
I spent some time figuring out the mechanics behind it and wrote a Tampermonkey script to automate the whole process:
Instead of mashing F5, just let the script handle it. I also included a built-in payload injector as a bonus. Once your images are uploaded via the script, simply toggle the injector on. To generate your video, you can either click the standard promptless "make a video" pill button or send an empty prompt in the text area. Technically, any video generation request you submit while the toggle is active will automatically be converted to spicy mode.
**A few important notes:**
* **Custom Prompts Are Ignored:** Spicy mode requires an empty prompt to trigger correctly. If you have the spicy toggle enabled and you type a custom prompt, the video generation request will still go through, but your custom text will be completely ignored and stripped from the request to ensure spicy mode works.
* **Troubleshooting Uploads:** If the queue system wipes your queue on the very first refresh during the upload phase, hit F12 to open DevTools, right-click your browser's refresh button, and select "Empty Cache and Hard Reload".
