I'm currently sitting on 1175 SC with my anniversary date being 31st December. ( I will have 1225 SC by the end of this month with a few flights still to take)
I logged into my QFF account today and I have already have the message stating
"congratulations you have made platinum for another year."
I phoned up the FF service centre to query this and they said they are giving me "platinum as a gesture of goodwill for my loyalty".
The operator did say to me that I'm more than welcome to earn the last remaining status credits to qualify for platinum in my own right before December 31st.
I did fell that the operator was being very careful with the words she used, implying that complimentary status is not an automatic given.
It's nice to fell loved though