{
  "schema": 1,
  "purpose": "Bound the 2018 video route using retained Wayback watch-page mementos; not a cipher extraction or proof of historic comment absence.",
  "source": {
    "watch_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQx2G3x7_WQ",
    "cdx_query_capture_date": "2026-07-27",
    "cdx_query_path": "solution/video/i-am-the-method-kQx2G3x7_WQ/web-archive/youtube-watch-cdx-20260727.json",
    "cdx_query_sha256": "7f2c9ce980ee185a646a2312418f33d0093e4af6021717077dbc9dd95c504e5f",
    "cdx_collapsed_records": [
      {
        "timestamp": "20211003162112",
        "original": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQx2G3x7_WQ",
        "statuscode": "200",
        "mimetype": "text/html",
        "digest": "BBESHBUNHVEHQHPEOYZ3HHFMOTP6VJCU"
      },
      {
        "timestamp": "20250819002919",
        "original": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQx2G3x7_WQ",
        "statuscode": "200",
        "mimetype": "text/html",
        "digest": "VH6VWHTCYSRVH4MEJ2QTFLXWRUN6HIEH"
      }
    ],
    "known_gap": "No 2018 canonical-watch-page capture appears in this retained exact-URL CDX result."
  },
  "mementos": {
    "2021": {
      "metadata_path": "solution/video/i-am-the-method-kQx2G3x7_WQ/web-archive/youtube-watch-20211003.metadata.json",
      "metadata_sha256": "82459f6ac0f8252a73a9e968caddb6d805ce2e783e7bb03e5d22b431f3de6e19",
      "capture_utc": "2021-10-03T16:21:12Z",
      "html_path": "solution/video/i-am-the-method-kQx2G3x7_WQ/web-archive/youtube-watch-20211003.html",
      "html_sha256": "77869cf90b837689d7ce7bcc25f83f02af41e8358441db6a6b3c0fe8da54bda5"
    },
    "2025": {
      "capture_utc": "2025-08-19T00:29:19Z",
      "memento_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20250819002919id_/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQx2G3x7_WQ",
      "html_path": "solution/video/i-am-the-method-kQx2G3x7_WQ/web-archive/youtube-watch-20250819.html",
      "html_bytes": 1012535,
      "html_sha256": "ee82b442fd4414d16d61bba15ed2a726eb4313e81a1bcad007bc3d4165d7210f",
      "title": "I am the method",
      "published_text": "Jan 25, 2018",
      "channel": "Tengri 137",
      "channel_id": "UC5zyzlmVbPjMh5rA47t0TJA",
      "description": "I am the method.\nI can tell you how to find the message.\n\nTengri 137\n0x666ab731\n\nhttps://pastebin.com/Xxx3ypsK"
    }
  },
  "continuity": {
    "title_equal": true,
    "channel_equal": true,
    "published_date_equal": true,
    "description_equal_after_line_trim": true
  },
  "comment_payload_check": {
    "comment_key_paths": [],
    "phrase_presence_in_raw_html": {
      "next_message": false,
      "third_round": false,
      "uploader_reply_id": false
    },
    "result": "The retained 2025 watch-page payload contains the stable description but no embedded comment payload or quoted next-message/third-round wording."
  },
  "result": "The retained 2021 and 2025 watch-page mementos establish stable public title, channel, 2018 publication date, and Pastebin-linked description. They do not recover an early comment thread, an original media file, or a target for the stated next message.",
  "limits": [
    "Wayback's absence of a 2018 capture in this exact-URL result is not evidence that no earlier copy existed elsewhere.",
    "The 2025 memento is a platform archive, not a PGP-signed author statement.",
    "An absent embedded comment payload in this memento does not prove that a historical YouTube comment never existed."
  ]
}