As most of you have noticed, the precious metals space on YouTube is being flooded with AI/human hybrid deep dives into the suddenly crazy-volatile silver market.
I think Occam’s Razor would suggest this is as simple as a good content creator cashing in on FUD. The dubious information suggests they're making guesses and creating mystique to entertain. It's all theatre 🎭
Perhaps. The creator is listed as Boring Currency. There are several topics that BC focused on the past two months. Silver seems to have gotten the most attention. The information is as accurate as AI can generate. Which is not 100%. But neither is any human content creator. There is definitely nothing exotic going on here. Just the miracle of AI. Many baby boomers have no idea how easy it is to generate good informative presentations using AI. My son has educated me.
The process of researching and producing these YouTube videos does not require extraordinary financial insight or the resources of a government. A single content creator, using readily available AI tools, can generate this type of
content in their pajamas before breakfast once a production format and avatar are set up.
Based on the account information, the "Asian Guy" series appears to be created by someone based in Pakistan. There is nothing inherently wrong with that, but it is important context.
What this creator is really offering is a convenience service for viewers who either do not know how, or do not want, to prompt ChatGPT or similar tools for these explanations themselves. He is a content creator trying to build a subscriber base and monetize attention. Nothing more exotic than that.
For perspective: in under one minute, I generated a YouTube-ready, eight-minute script using ChatGPT explaining the CME margin requirements, what they are, how they have been used historically, how they are being applied now, and why.
Asian Guy is not intelligence work or market engineering. It is content production.
Keith, that’s a fair pushback. Let me clarify where I’m coming from.
Having spent my career in digital media—specifically in maximizing YouTube channel revenue and navigating algorithm parlor games—my "spidey senses" go off not because of what is being said, but how it is being delivered.
The pace at which these "Asian Guy" videos are produced, tagged, and propagated across dozens of spun-up, generic channels is not organic. This is classic "astroturfing." I’ve seen how these networks are built to flood feeds, and this campaign feels engineered—carefully planned and timed to coincide with a light-volume holiday trading week and exchange margin increases.
I believe this is a case of "weaponized truth." The content is informative and directionally accurate (the structural deficit is real), but it wraps legitimate market data in a "FOMO" delivery mechanism designed to trigger a specific behavioral response.
Whether this is a sophisticated state actor preparing the population for a monetary reset, a hedge fund using AI to whip up retail liquidity so they can sell into a parabolic top, or just a savvy content farm gaming the CPM rates on finance videos, the result is the same: a manufactured mania.
So, is the "Asian Guy" manipulating Shanghai? No. But he is manipulating us.
The fundamental drivers—the China export controls effective Jan 1st, the record Shanghai/London arbitrage spread, and the physical shortage—are real. The West has indeed become a price taker. However, today’s huge reversal candle suggests that this video campaign successfully stampeded retail investors into a crowded trade just as the smart money was looking for an exit. Whether this component was a major contributor or a sideshow, I have no idea.
The sheer scale of this content flood was something to behold, but I understand that correlation doesn't translate to causation. The videos didn't cause the silver shortage, but they sure as hell capitalized on the panic around it. What are your thoughts?
I wouldn't bet a lot of money on this topic but if I were to bet six-pack I would bet that Asian Guy is putting up his own work, is bullish on metals, trying to support the bullish trend and making some money from youtube. As far as the CME is concerned this is what they always do; when the market gets stretched, they cool it down by raising margin requirements. There is no easy money to be made and the exchange will not help anyone; they like to say if you want a friend get a dog. I have tried using leverage in the past and have learned to avoid it. I have also learned to only buy screaming buys--what everyone else thinks is totally stupid. We have had a few days where the market has gone against us; no big deal. With gold and particularly with silver the fundamentals are solidly on our side. Good luck to all longs.
I have been watching Asian Guy from the beginning, yet I've always considered it a psy-op. Why? Because truth is never allowed to get out to the general public ...unless (((they))) want it to get out. I watch for entertainment. I've known this was coming since 1990. I bought my first nine Kruggerands in 2002, for $335. each. I used a credit card, because it was the only way I had to buy gold at the time. Later I bought silver. There is no way I'm going to sell. I bought precious metals because I believe the system will crash.
The CME just raised margin levels on silver 12/29/2025
In 2011 they did it 6 times starting around $36 and twice more until it hit $50 and then 3 more from $50 to $35 - silver proceeded down to $14 later - that was the low. They crushed the silver price.
I agree. I felt the same way. His facts were not right.
I believe it is AI by the banksters to create F.U.D., Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt, just to make people think the FED could pull the same stunt they pulled in the 1930's when they confiscated gold, to confiscate silver, and that would keep people from buying silver which would hold the price down.
That's not likely. I believe Trump would never go along with that, mainly because Trump knows their game to rob the people of their wealth, and because Trump knows that it is these same Bankster Gangsters that paid for someone, or even many someone's, to try to kill him. Trump is against the bankster globalists and wants to see them lose their shirts! The banksters are not protected like they were with the past illegal and evil regimes, so I don't think there is any way they would be able to confiscate silver.
Also, I believe I heard that the AI said fund managers would allow sales of shares but not large purchases of shares. Maybe that's the case, but I haven't seen any evidence of that yet in the SLV etf.
I think we all know that the banks don't want silver to become real money or their fake and fraudulent "FEDERAL RESERVE NOTE", which is neither Federal, nor is their any Reserve behind it, would become worthless because it would have no "FULL FAITH AND CONFIDENCE" of the government OR "we the people" behind it. It would fail completely, wiping them out.
Also, they don't want silver prices to rise because then their massive short positions would be upside down and they would lose billions.
Of course, they have used those massive short positions for decades to suppress silver prices to near the 100-to-1 silver-to-gold ratio, that historically should be closer to 15-to-1.
When silver gets to it's historical average of 15-to-1, SILVER WILL BE $300 PER OUNCE and will be seen as an asset with significant value that anyone can own AND USE without the banks having any control of it at all!
Trump proved he plays for the other team. Shut down the small businesses and bragged about the poison shots. He is a liar and evil person. Genocide is his agenda.
I disagree. He's primarily a salesman. Most of his experience is in business where the people he dealt with had skin in the game and every one generally had the same goal which was to make deals and money. He learned in round one that the people in government/politics are different and that's why he seemed to have a bad judge of character. I think he's learned a lot since. I think the system will crash anyway, and all that implies, but not because of him.
What am I missing? The Global Economic 'experiment' that has been the plan for decades if not centuries to one day totally collapse the world economy to take full control with digital currency that can be fully tracked traced and controlled is going exactly according to plan as I see it. The plan of 'you will own nothing and be happy' is going forward at a high rate of speed and success. Is this video coming from a point of view held by China, that it is Trump's intention to collapse the economy of China? It is a psyop to believe Trump is on a different team than China. They are both on the same team and they both want the same things, total control and dominance of the population. It would be silly to believe the US is trying to cause some harm to China when US politicians waged war with US citizens to ship all their work, all their food supply, all of the medications they depend on for health, off to China for China to benefit financially, to the detriment of Americans. Of course, US politicians knew precisely that GDP would collapse when they handed all the wealth of the US to China decades ago. The goal to collapse the world economy is being played out very successfully before our eyes.
I am extremely suspicious about the price of silver. Did they first manipulate ppl to put all their wealth into Bitcoin with the full intention to pull the plug to remove wealth on a massive scale, and maybe they are doing that now with silver and gold to then shut down coin shops and no one can sell it unless they pass some China social score system? Be careful what you wish for. The dominance of China in the world economy, China that sells organs of people who speak anything out of line against an abusive government, is exactly what all the parasite predators in power want, and that includes all US politicians, bankers etc (All of the El-ite worldwide). China was just an experiment to get decades of experience to know how to implement full communist control over the population, and we are watching as they (the El-ite) are successfully destroying all privacy, all economic freedom, all liberty. I am not seeing what is failing and I am beginning to wonder where are all the resources are coming from, that is behind all these channels. There definitely is not one guy or even a few Asian guys involved in this level of work to produce these videos. We are seeing extremely high skills being used across many disciplines. Be careful folks. Jesus won't be getting on the internet and using an AI guy to reveal truth to benefit the little guy. Something else is going on here with these channels and there are a huge number of resources in skills and numbers of people on a team involved to put this information out. Is it being used to manipulate us? It is definitely not in the interest of anything that lives and breathes for China to take economic dominance over the world.
Well if you really believe this then you'd be better off owning (physical) gold and silver than not. People decide what's money, not governments. Historically people have always valued gold and silver.
I didn't use the term. It came from Don Durrett's post, which I quoted. Not sure what he means either, but in his scenario, it comes after a big gold/silver run-up, so it seems like we can cross that bridge when we come to it.
I noticed that the "rug pulled" quote was Durrett's right after I clicked reply, so my apologies. But what the heck does he mean by that? Any ideas? By the way, I dig your content.
Enjoyed our first weekend as M&M’s. Im not about talking candy. MM is our abbreviation for multi millionaires. Definitely looking forward to next year, next month or May even next week when we’ll regain that wealth multiple with our silver (all PM’s) holding. The shorts can whip me, beat me, call me Edna but we’ve yet to sell even a single physical troy ounce of our shiny stack. HOLD ON Stackers. Don’t get shaken out. Ride this silver bull like top notch rodeo cowboy. Tighten your grip and stay on this Raging Bull.
I'm a little surprised that a 10 or 20% drop in the price of silver or gold is such a surprise, or at least a seeming big deal. When have parabolic increases NOT been followed by "significant" pull backs?
Remember, prices can't drop if people don't sell, and if people don't sell then prices have to rise. (See residential housing).
Just seeing the covers of those "Asian Guy" videos is such a turn off I haven't watched them (yet?) but if "his" message is anything about governments or businesses or any other entities not wanting silver's price to be so high then I would say that really isn't news.
I'm not selling anything. In fact, I hope prices fall even more so I can invest my 2026 Roth contribution on Jan 2.
The "problem" is that silver is both an industrial metal, which is what gets all the press, AND a monetary one, which nobody wants to talk about. Maybe when the AG talks about that I'll tune in.
Silver is down for one reason today. This morning the exchange increased margin requirements by 25% from 20k to 25K. Those who did not have the funds had to sell thus driving the price down.
Maybe I am too simplistic. Shanghai silver is $83.44 (real metal) and COMEX is $71.37 (paper metal unless one stands for delivery). That is one heck of a spread. I don't have the monies to play the spread, but if I did - that is a nice one day trade profit !! It still seems that silver is in short supply and it is not going to get better. How can the government "pull the rug out"?
I respectfully disagree with the author on his conclusion (that being a government false flag). Knowing how Youtube pays creators for number of views (monetization), it seems very likely to me that all the "Ai Asian guy" channels are a money making operation for Youtube monetization that is leveraging A.I.
I think Occam’s Razor would suggest this is as simple as a good content creator cashing in on FUD. The dubious information suggests they're making guesses and creating mystique to entertain. It's all theatre 🎭
Perhaps. The creator is listed as Boring Currency. There are several topics that BC focused on the past two months. Silver seems to have gotten the most attention. The information is as accurate as AI can generate. Which is not 100%. But neither is any human content creator. There is definitely nothing exotic going on here. Just the miracle of AI. Many baby boomers have no idea how easy it is to generate good informative presentations using AI. My son has educated me.
Calm down, folks.
The process of researching and producing these YouTube videos does not require extraordinary financial insight or the resources of a government. A single content creator, using readily available AI tools, can generate this type of
content in their pajamas before breakfast once a production format and avatar are set up.
Based on the account information, the "Asian Guy" series appears to be created by someone based in Pakistan. There is nothing inherently wrong with that, but it is important context.
What this creator is really offering is a convenience service for viewers who either do not know how, or do not want, to prompt ChatGPT or similar tools for these explanations themselves. He is a content creator trying to build a subscriber base and monetize attention. Nothing more exotic than that.
For perspective: in under one minute, I generated a YouTube-ready, eight-minute script using ChatGPT explaining the CME margin requirements, what they are, how they have been used historically, how they are being applied now, and why.
Asian Guy is not intelligence work or market engineering. It is content production.
This comment was written by ChatGPT!
Keith, that’s a fair pushback. Let me clarify where I’m coming from.
Having spent my career in digital media—specifically in maximizing YouTube channel revenue and navigating algorithm parlor games—my "spidey senses" go off not because of what is being said, but how it is being delivered.
The pace at which these "Asian Guy" videos are produced, tagged, and propagated across dozens of spun-up, generic channels is not organic. This is classic "astroturfing." I’ve seen how these networks are built to flood feeds, and this campaign feels engineered—carefully planned and timed to coincide with a light-volume holiday trading week and exchange margin increases.
I believe this is a case of "weaponized truth." The content is informative and directionally accurate (the structural deficit is real), but it wraps legitimate market data in a "FOMO" delivery mechanism designed to trigger a specific behavioral response.
Whether this is a sophisticated state actor preparing the population for a monetary reset, a hedge fund using AI to whip up retail liquidity so they can sell into a parabolic top, or just a savvy content farm gaming the CPM rates on finance videos, the result is the same: a manufactured mania.
So, is the "Asian Guy" manipulating Shanghai? No. But he is manipulating us.
The fundamental drivers—the China export controls effective Jan 1st, the record Shanghai/London arbitrage spread, and the physical shortage—are real. The West has indeed become a price taker. However, today’s huge reversal candle suggests that this video campaign successfully stampeded retail investors into a crowded trade just as the smart money was looking for an exit. Whether this component was a major contributor or a sideshow, I have no idea.
The sheer scale of this content flood was something to behold, but I understand that correlation doesn't translate to causation. The videos didn't cause the silver shortage, but they sure as hell capitalized on the panic around it. What are your thoughts?
I wouldn't bet a lot of money on this topic but if I were to bet six-pack I would bet that Asian Guy is putting up his own work, is bullish on metals, trying to support the bullish trend and making some money from youtube. As far as the CME is concerned this is what they always do; when the market gets stretched, they cool it down by raising margin requirements. There is no easy money to be made and the exchange will not help anyone; they like to say if you want a friend get a dog. I have tried using leverage in the past and have learned to avoid it. I have also learned to only buy screaming buys--what everyone else thinks is totally stupid. We have had a few days where the market has gone against us; no big deal. With gold and particularly with silver the fundamentals are solidly on our side. Good luck to all longs.
I have been watching Asian Guy from the beginning, yet I've always considered it a psy-op. Why? Because truth is never allowed to get out to the general public ...unless (((they))) want it to get out. I watch for entertainment. I've known this was coming since 1990. I bought my first nine Kruggerands in 2002, for $335. each. I used a credit card, because it was the only way I had to buy gold at the time. Later I bought silver. There is no way I'm going to sell. I bought precious metals because I believe the system will crash.
Question: What does the "rug pull" look like in your opinion?
Government sequestering your silver after crowdsourcing its acquisition.
The CME just raised margin levels on silver 12/29/2025
In 2011 they did it 6 times starting around $36 and twice more until it hit $50 and then 3 more from $50 to $35 - silver proceeded down to $14 later - that was the low. They crushed the silver price.
They did it this time and it suppressed pricing apparently for just a day. Silver is up 5% this morning. Oops. Price discovery is a bitch.
I agree. I felt the same way. His facts were not right.
I believe it is AI by the banksters to create F.U.D., Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt, just to make people think the FED could pull the same stunt they pulled in the 1930's when they confiscated gold, to confiscate silver, and that would keep people from buying silver which would hold the price down.
That's not likely. I believe Trump would never go along with that, mainly because Trump knows their game to rob the people of their wealth, and because Trump knows that it is these same Bankster Gangsters that paid for someone, or even many someone's, to try to kill him. Trump is against the bankster globalists and wants to see them lose their shirts! The banksters are not protected like they were with the past illegal and evil regimes, so I don't think there is any way they would be able to confiscate silver.
Also, I believe I heard that the AI said fund managers would allow sales of shares but not large purchases of shares. Maybe that's the case, but I haven't seen any evidence of that yet in the SLV etf.
I think we all know that the banks don't want silver to become real money or their fake and fraudulent "FEDERAL RESERVE NOTE", which is neither Federal, nor is their any Reserve behind it, would become worthless because it would have no "FULL FAITH AND CONFIDENCE" of the government OR "we the people" behind it. It would fail completely, wiping them out.
Also, they don't want silver prices to rise because then their massive short positions would be upside down and they would lose billions.
Of course, they have used those massive short positions for decades to suppress silver prices to near the 100-to-1 silver-to-gold ratio, that historically should be closer to 15-to-1.
When silver gets to it's historical average of 15-to-1, SILVER WILL BE $300 PER OUNCE and will be seen as an asset with significant value that anyone can own AND USE without the banks having any control of it at all!
The banks just do not want that.
They would lose control of the monetary system.
Trump proved he plays for the other team. Shut down the small businesses and bragged about the poison shots. He is a liar and evil person. Genocide is his agenda.
He's a jerk but the democrats are worse
I disagree. He's primarily a salesman. Most of his experience is in business where the people he dealt with had skin in the game and every one generally had the same goal which was to make deals and money. He learned in round one that the people in government/politics are different and that's why he seemed to have a bad judge of character. I think he's learned a lot since. I think the system will crash anyway, and all that implies, but not because of him.
This guy is disinformation
Look back at some of his past videos he’s been 100% wrong
What am I missing? The Global Economic 'experiment' that has been the plan for decades if not centuries to one day totally collapse the world economy to take full control with digital currency that can be fully tracked traced and controlled is going exactly according to plan as I see it. The plan of 'you will own nothing and be happy' is going forward at a high rate of speed and success. Is this video coming from a point of view held by China, that it is Trump's intention to collapse the economy of China? It is a psyop to believe Trump is on a different team than China. They are both on the same team and they both want the same things, total control and dominance of the population. It would be silly to believe the US is trying to cause some harm to China when US politicians waged war with US citizens to ship all their work, all their food supply, all of the medications they depend on for health, off to China for China to benefit financially, to the detriment of Americans. Of course, US politicians knew precisely that GDP would collapse when they handed all the wealth of the US to China decades ago. The goal to collapse the world economy is being played out very successfully before our eyes.
I am extremely suspicious about the price of silver. Did they first manipulate ppl to put all their wealth into Bitcoin with the full intention to pull the plug to remove wealth on a massive scale, and maybe they are doing that now with silver and gold to then shut down coin shops and no one can sell it unless they pass some China social score system? Be careful what you wish for. The dominance of China in the world economy, China that sells organs of people who speak anything out of line against an abusive government, is exactly what all the parasite predators in power want, and that includes all US politicians, bankers etc (All of the El-ite worldwide). China was just an experiment to get decades of experience to know how to implement full communist control over the population, and we are watching as they (the El-ite) are successfully destroying all privacy, all economic freedom, all liberty. I am not seeing what is failing and I am beginning to wonder where are all the resources are coming from, that is behind all these channels. There definitely is not one guy or even a few Asian guys involved in this level of work to produce these videos. We are seeing extremely high skills being used across many disciplines. Be careful folks. Jesus won't be getting on the internet and using an AI guy to reveal truth to benefit the little guy. Something else is going on here with these channels and there are a huge number of resources in skills and numbers of people on a team involved to put this information out. Is it being used to manipulate us? It is definitely not in the interest of anything that lives and breathes for China to take economic dominance over the world.
Well if you really believe this then you'd be better off owning (physical) gold and silver than not. People decide what's money, not governments. Historically people have always valued gold and silver.
They are working us big time. What you say is totally correct!!
Silver will move higher then get "rug pulled". Rug pulled how?
My question exactly!! WTF does Rubino mean by "rug pulled????" It pisses me off that he is being so intentionally vague.
I didn't use the term. It came from Don Durrett's post, which I quoted. Not sure what he means either, but in his scenario, it comes after a big gold/silver run-up, so it seems like we can cross that bridge when we come to it.
I noticed that the "rug pulled" quote was Durrett's right after I clicked reply, so my apologies. But what the heck does he mean by that? Any ideas? By the way, I dig your content.
Was today not a rug pull? It wasn't gigantic but it was a concerted coordinated effort I thought.
Thanks!
Enjoyed our first weekend as M&M’s. Im not about talking candy. MM is our abbreviation for multi millionaires. Definitely looking forward to next year, next month or May even next week when we’ll regain that wealth multiple with our silver (all PM’s) holding. The shorts can whip me, beat me, call me Edna but we’ve yet to sell even a single physical troy ounce of our shiny stack. HOLD ON Stackers. Don’t get shaken out. Ride this silver bull like top notch rodeo cowboy. Tighten your grip and stay on this Raging Bull.
Congratulations!
Well that didn’t last long did it? Back to just another regular millionaire again. Massive precious metals pullbacks today, but “I’ll be back.”
Definitely.
Why would anyone presume that it is OUR government?! Would the Chinese, Indian, or Russian government have a reason to put out propaganda?
I'm a little surprised that a 10 or 20% drop in the price of silver or gold is such a surprise, or at least a seeming big deal. When have parabolic increases NOT been followed by "significant" pull backs?
Remember, prices can't drop if people don't sell, and if people don't sell then prices have to rise. (See residential housing).
Just seeing the covers of those "Asian Guy" videos is such a turn off I haven't watched them (yet?) but if "his" message is anything about governments or businesses or any other entities not wanting silver's price to be so high then I would say that really isn't news.
I'm not selling anything. In fact, I hope prices fall even more so I can invest my 2026 Roth contribution on Jan 2.
The "problem" is that silver is both an industrial metal, which is what gets all the press, AND a monetary one, which nobody wants to talk about. Maybe when the AG talks about that I'll tune in.
Silver is down for one reason today. This morning the exchange increased margin requirements by 25% from 20k to 25K. Those who did not have the funds had to sell thus driving the price down.
It won't be long before the Exchange and their margin requirements will not have any meaning.
Well, there you go.
Pigs get slaughtered.
Maybe I am too simplistic. Shanghai silver is $83.44 (real metal) and COMEX is $71.37 (paper metal unless one stands for delivery). That is one heck of a spread. I don't have the monies to play the spread, but if I did - that is a nice one day trade profit !! It still seems that silver is in short supply and it is not going to get better. How can the government "pull the rug out"?
That's the core question if the physical is the Achilles heel.
I respectfully disagree with the author on his conclusion (that being a government false flag). Knowing how Youtube pays creators for number of views (monetization), it seems very likely to me that all the "Ai Asian guy" channels are a money making operation for Youtube monetization that is leveraging A.I.