try:
    with open("database.json", "r+") as datahere:
        db = json.load(datahere)


except:
    print("Database file not found / corrupted!")



def jsondump(update):
    new_user_id = update.message.from_user.id
    try:
        if new_user_id not in db:
            user = {
                "%r" % new_user_id:
                    [
                        {"NAME": ""},
                        {"AGE": 00},
                        {"BIO": ""},
                        {"INTERESTS": []},
                        {"PICTURE_PATH": ""}

                    ]
            }

            with open("database.json", "r+") as dataload:
                data = json.load(dataload)

            data.update(user)

            with open("database.json", "r+") as datadump:
                json.dump(data, datadump, indent=4)
    except:
        print("Json data write failed!")

def test(bot, update):
    id1 = str(update.message.from_user.id)
    test2 = db[id1][NAME] = "HELL" # this doesn't stick in the file at all
    json.dump(test2, db)






--------------------------------FILE--------------------------------------------

{
    "91495773": [
        {
            "NAME": ""
        },
        {
            "AGE": 0
        },
        {
            "BIO": ""
        },
        {
            "INTERESTS": []
        },
        {
            "PICTURE_PATH": ""
        }
    ]
}