About GreatJIN
Youtube The Words reads trending YouTube comments as Social Philosophy: influence, rhetoric, wit, confession, and public judgment.
GreatJIN designs small tools that turn noisy public data into rankings people can argue with.
This project starts with YouTube Trending commentors, then grows toward Hall of Fame snapshots, Local Vote, and philosopher-style archetypes.
LinkedIn profileYouTube API calls, translation, and ranking snapshots all create running costs. Support helps keep the public ranking experiments online.
Support on PayPalWe collect public YouTube comments from popular and latest feeds, remove duplicates, and total likes by commentor. Replies, appearances across clips, and saved snapshots are shown separately as context and history signals.
Automated archetypes are experimental lenses for reading public response, not factual judgments about a person. The operator reviews and corrects inaccurate sources, counting errors, and inappropriate content.
Advertising and donations do not affect rankings, philosopher labels, or Local Vote results. Youtube The Words is not an official YouTube service and adds its own analysis to public API data.
Saved commentor snapshots now refresh from user traffic only after 30 minutes, matching the intended YouTube sync cadence. Admin Observability also shows DynamoDB Cost Explorer usage types separately, including read request units, write request units, PITR storage, and table storage.
Google login returns now trigger immediate authentication re-checks for the header and Site Comments panel, and Forum comment cards now include a lazy Site Comments toggle.
Added a Methodology page explaining commentor ranking calculation, editorial review, advertising independence, and correction requests. Fixed Site Comments so the panel re-checks authentication after Google login returns, and changed the OAuth callback to persist the session cookie before returning to the app.
Updated the public Hall of Fame API to use the latest saved snapshot instead of broad DynamoDB scans on user requests, reducing throttling and 502 errors.
Added snapshot refresh flow, split public APIs, reduced initial HTML payload, applied CSP, added report-count auto-hide and ad eligibility rules, and made the first screen clearer about commentor rankings.
Public locale pages now use translated metadata, policy content, loading states, Forum direct-search copy, Flash labels, and Hall of Fame refresh text. Locale switching keeps the current snapshot stable and handles non-JSON API failures gracefully.
MyPik and My Scrapbook now save to the signed-in user's server profile, direct YouTube clip searches can be saved as scraps with opinions, and AWS cost reporting includes a Cost Explorer month-to-date cumulative total.
The home page now shows the latest saved snapshot before live refresh, and ad slots stay gated to content-rich ranking, commentary, and analysis screens.
Commentor clicks now open an internal philosopher-style profile first, showing cached comments, likes, clips, archetype signals, Local Vote, site comments, and a YouTube profile button.
Added tab-specific Public Square summaries with pie charts, Commentor Archetype lenses, clearer Hall of Fame history scoring, report/mute/RED CARD moderation flows, policy pages, and content-gated ad placement.
Google profiles now support site nicknames, philosopher portrait avatars, social comment likes, edit/delete controls, profile activity summaries, and timestamp-aware video previews.
Video previews now close cleanly on mouse leave and only one floating mini-player stays open at a time.
GitLab CI now separates develop/X600 and main/AWS production variables, and Lambda image deploys use a live alias with canary traffic shifting across S3, DynamoDB, ECR, Lambda, and CloudFront.
The service ranks commentors by combining popular and latest comments from trending clips.
Saved snapshots and local philosopher votes prepare a larger ranking layer beyond one live request.
The home page now presents the service purpose, ranking method, and Social Philosophy lens while live YouTube ranking data is refreshed through the API.
