Motivation: See if the amount of traction words have on urban dictionary have any bearing on their popularity on other social media platforms.

Extention: Could words popular in news articles have any effect on on viewship of social media posts?

Urban dictionary tends to have words that are more used in current parlance be upvoted. Social media posts containing these words may be more likley to grab viewer attention. Similarly news articles tend to introduce vocabulary people care about, so does using this vocabulary in our own social media increase viewership.

Initially was going to use zdict to get words, instead used data available on reddit. File to parse json is current and benchmarked with various implementations of JSON to SQLite in python. Most current solution runs on a 1.6GB file in under a minute on my laptop. Example of parsed file is included under data.