Posted on 01/18/2026 12:58:37 PM PST by yesthatjallen
As silver’s history-making rally continues above $90/oz, a new wave of slick, high-volume commentary is sweeping across social media. A sudden new presence in the precious metals conversation is raising questions about how narratives emerge during market stress, what qualifies as reliable investment insight, and how quickly investor interest in silver is expanding.
In this week’s The Gold Spot, Scottsdale Bullion & Coin Founder Eric Sepanek and Precious Metals Advisor John Karow analyze the YouTube phenomenon known as “The Asian Guy,” how this investment guidance lines up with more established voices, and what the channel’s rise in popularity says about the silver market moving forward.
The Emergence of “The Asian Guy”
Over the past few weeks, a single digital persona has gone from obscure to unavoidable in the online silver conversation. “The Asian Guy” is only one of over a dozen YouTube channels using similar artificial intelligence avatars, automated voice overs, and still images to pump out silver-related videos several times per day.
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Good 8 min. video explaining what's going on at the link.
Multiple efforts are made daily to manipulate the PM markets.
Just consider The Fed, The Treasury [and Fort Knox], President Trumps likely choices for decorating The WH Ballroom, Lehman Brothers, Credit Suisse, and the past actions of FDR and the Hunt Brothers.
Anything with that many views has to be AI Slop
The Hunt Brothers went broke trying to corner the silver market, let’s hope China repeats that bit of history...
Been watching him for a few weeks. Dude has half a dozen channels.
One of his programs I had ChatGPT analyze. Almost nothing said was true. Might not have been the Asian guy but another channel using the same avatar.
The reason I did that is he claimed Trump had signed an executive order seizing silver. And that didn’t ring true. Almost nothing else in the video rang true.
Full disclosure: His channels did help raise my awareness of a possible silver shortage. And with Felix and Friends (Winston) stating they were bullish on metal miners too, I pulled the trigger on some silver mining stocks.
Specifically NEM and PAAS. I bought in the money call options with Jan 2028 expirations and am up about 35% since the start of the year.
>> It appears someone/some country is trying to manipulate the silver market.
Don’t you fall for that nonsense! Silver is going to the MOON and it’ll never again go down! And if it does, BUY it, dips! Er, sorry, I mean buy the dips! Listen to the Asian Guy. No Asian Guy has ever let us down before! Am I right?
Appreicate your input. I am still evaluating.
The most hilarious thing is to watch everybody flipping out about Asian guy, saying someone is trying to manipulate the market. Like the market hasn’t been heavily manipulated since the late 70s, like it hasn’t been brutally suppressed in price by the giant banks, especially in the last two decades.
No Asian guy says some very sensible things. Nobody bothers to argue against what he’s saying. They just scream Asian guy! Asian guy! Market manipulation. Never mind there’s about 250 ounces of paper silver for every ounce of actual silver. Never mind that China just stopped all exports pretty much and they control about 60% of the refining capacity. Never mind the demand is high and only getting worse with AI, solar, electric cars, you name it. No, it’s Asian guy…
the people putting up the most videos on the topic are trying to manipulate the market the most ...
“...there’s about 250 ounces of paper silver for every ounce of actual silver....”
Where does that number come from?
What’s the equivalent number for Gold?
For Pt?
Maybe whatever is behind the videos is trying to blame Musk [and hurt Tesla].
no ... they post the videos to entice in new buyers to increase demand ... only new buyers make prices go up, not current owners ...
Who is John AG?—The Reall Truth Behind Many Channels
Your John AG
Other very similar avatar is primarily handled as Jon AG [not John] with at least 23 channels by different handles. Can't rule out that Your John AG may just be a different avatar of the same AI.
Jon AG
Jon CC
OG John AG
Before Anyone Noticed
The Archivist
The Coin & the Crown
Mech Stories
The Monetary Outlook
Boring Currency Archive
Bullion Watch
Financial Lore
Metals & Markets
The Boring Currency
Financial Crux
Law Caliber
Créatures Suprenantes
The Finance Guy
Financial Truth and Mystery Chronicles
War and Mystery Chronicles
Blackbox Money
Boring Metals
Macro Reality
Economics Exposed and Financial Revelations
The first video of ‘the asian guy’ I saw kinda made sense.
But with the second one I saw, I knew he was a fraud:
Accusing Trump of ‘Kidnapping Maduro to steal his 267 Tons of Silver and to commandeer ‘Venezuela’s Rich Silver mines that provide 12% of all the world’s silver’ (Venezuela doesn’t have very many economically exploitable silver deposits, and even the few it does have haven’t been very productive since Chávez took over, much less under Maduro).
I’d say it is pretty good video quality for being AI.... But the AI audio has an agenda that is not too concerned with reality.
Trying to sell mine and use the funds to buy a newer truck. I’m just about there if I throw in a few other shiny coins/
I bailed on my silver futures contracts at $89 - it’s reached up to $94 this evening, so maybe I should be kicking myself but mostly I feel relieved I got out with a nice profit. Silver hype is soaring and I’m not knowledgeable enough to know what’s real and what’s BS.
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