{
  "evidence_id": "i-am-the-method-contemporary-2018-community-record",
  "retrieved_on": "2026-07-27",
  "classification": "contemporary secondary evidence",
  "source_chain": [
    {
      "kind": "Reddit post",
      "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/tengri137/comments/8ao6wy/havent_seen_this_video_mentioned/",
      "post_id": "8ao6wy",
      "author": "u/tengrithrowaway",
      "posted_utc": "2018-04-08T06:04:21Z",
      "preserved_record": "../../../../archive/recon/reddit/r-tengri137-8ao6wy-havent-seen-this-video-mentioned.md",
      "role": "Copies a purported YouTube uploader reply and links the Imgur album; it is not an author-signed source."
    },
    {
      "kind": "Imgur album URL in the Reddit post",
      "url": "https://imgur.com/a/1J1lf",
      "current_page_sha256": "5742e14db92c1674a37be7fc60f7860a6c99c82bdf7fea112459eb27dd8b3d16",
      "current_page_result": "No usable live album body; the social preview points to the direct image below."
    },
    {
      "kind": "Direct Imgur preview",
      "url": "https://i.imgur.com/7byfIqJh.jpg",
      "retrieved_file_sha256": "f7859b93118c6a07e2aebc56b12a6a6ece0fe4e4cb2b9d37d09f469a79076bc4",
      "role": "Current resized social-preview rendition."
    },
    {
      "kind": "Wayback direct-image memento",
      "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230516063726id_/https://i.imgur.com/7byfIqJ.jpg",
      "capture_utc": "2023-05-16T06:37:26Z",
      "wayback_cdx_digest": "VPUKOFPKZGHSUEEDSTJCUN5R2P3KUQFL",
      "file": "imgur-1J1lf-spek-20230516.jpg",
      "file_sha256": "168caede2dffb72b939a4724ed7193cad20623f0738c9f68128c4f90be089427",
      "role": "Full-size image used for visual comparison; later archival capture, not proof of the image's creation date."
    }
  ],
  "observations": [
    "The screenshot is a Spek 0.8.2 rendering of a locally downloaded 320 kbps, 44.1 kHz, two-channel MP3.",
    "It visually includes broadband blackouts around the two breaks visible in the preserved YouTube audio.",
    "It contains no readable embedded text or independently decodable payload."
  ],
  "rejected_association": {
    "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230608/https://imgur.com/a/1J1Lf",
    "reason": "The uppercase final F is a case-distinct Imgur ID and resolves to an unrelated Chinese spam album. It must not be cited as the Tengri evidence."
  },
  "limits": [
    "The Reddit author and Imgur uploader are not cryptographically authenticated as Tengri 137.",
    "The community comment proposing binary or barcode is speculation, not corroboration.",
    "The screenshot is compatible with the score-rest explanation and cannot establish an intentional cipher."
  ]
}