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Hi, I'm John AG. If you have stumbled upon this channel, you are likely looking for something that is becoming very rare these days. Clarity.
Wait, which one is the real John AG? Others have said, "I thought you were the same guy, but now I'm not sure." I'm going to tell you exactly who John AG is. I'm going to explain why there are so many channels using the same character. One, two, three. We have three Asian AI John AG channels, and they're all saying the same thing.
"That man's an impostor." "That man is the imposter."
Confused? Well, in this video, I'm going to clear up all the confusions. In the last video I made on this topic, it went absolutely viral. The comment section went crazy, and it was probably the most controversial video I've ever made, and I was asking questions. And now, in this video, I'm going to be answering questions. I've spent a lot of time doing research so you don't have to.
So, in this video, I'm going to be providing you with a chronology from the origin of the AI Asian guy all the way up to today and the John AG variants. I'm also going to be providing you with some smoking guns that seem to give us probable cause that these channels originate in India. Also, I'm going to share with you the likely motive behind these channels, and it's not necessarily what you think.
And we have three John AGs. So, only one of them can be the real John AG. So, I'm going to provide you with a bit of a breakdown as to which one is most rightfully deserving to be having that title. So, let's start with the origin story because it's really fascinating.
So, first of all, I made this channel, this um Upside Scoop channel, around late September, and I didn't really think I was going to go into precious metals and finance and stuff like that. I wanted to talk more about entrepreneurship, but those videos where I was talking about the successes and failures and stories and kind of dissecting them were not hitting. And I decided, "Let me talk about something that's very near and dear to me." And that topic is, of course, precious metals, namely silver. Because I've been a die-hard silver investor for about 15 years. And so I made this video in late October talking about why silver is actually a better investment than Bitcoin. And at that time, I found this channel. It had this Asian guy talking, and I liked it. It was uh actually called War and History Chronicles or something like that. They changed the name, so now it's not that anymore. But I actually subscribed to the channel. I thought, "Okay, well, this is interesting. Maybe I could borrow some features of this channel." You got the Van Gogh-style paintings that change every sentence. You got this guy on the, you know, right side panel taking up part of the screen, and he's just kind of guiding you through a story. So, I thought that was kind of good.
Anyway, uh, fast forward to early December. Silver started to finally break out of a 45-year cup and handle pattern decisively, and then it crossed the $60 mark. At this point, what was happening was there was a lot of talk on the forums, and this content that we saw um on these various channels featuring the Asian guy shifted into from general finance into silver because silver became a hot topic. Then on the Reddit forums like r/WallStreetSilver or, you know, r/Silverbugs, people started talking. They were saying, "Asian guy, Asian guy, who's this Asian guy?" And he never actually called himself Asian guy, though. It's just something that people in these forums affectionately used, or maybe even mockingly used, about, "Okay, we got this new Asian AI Asian guy on the scene." Meanwhile, silver was just chugging along, going higher and higher and higher week after week, and attention started to build up. And now, these Asian guy channels seem to drop, like I said, they dropped all the other topics and we're fixated on silver.
Now, so something interesting happened around late December, early January. It looks like somebody saw that these channels were taking off, getting massive traffic, and decided to lean heavily into the Asian guy theme, and actually named himself or itself "Asian Guy." And a bunch of these channels were formed featuring the Asian guy where he said, "Asian Guy here, blah blah blah blah. Silver, silver, silver."
"Asian Guy here. It is December 30th, 2025, and right now, as we speak, silver is exploding higher again."
Okay, so that's what we were getting. And, you know, eventually I started taking more and more notice of this. And then let's take us to around late January, early February. I decided I should make a video about this because there's so much commentary on this. And in that video, I was more asking questions, and I was basically saying, you know, a lot of people in the forums are saying this guy could be a Chinese CCP, Chinese Communist Party agent operation. It could be um a banking cartel trying to manipulate the markets even more by stirring public sentiment one way or the other. And people were saying, "If if this character starts saying sell, people are actually going to listen." And when I made that video, it really went viral. The comment section went crazy. I really suggest you check out that video and just go through the comments because the wild speculations that were happening in this community. You can see it front and center in the in the comments section. Some people were saying he was just he's a scam, and other people are saying this guy is an insider and he's a pro and he's really going to steer us in the right direction. We should listen to him.
So, after that that overwhelming controversial comment section, I realized I need to do more research on this. So I decided to really spend some time looking at every single one of these channels and trying to dive deep into what the heck is actually going on.
So also, one thing I want to share actually in the comments section is someone actually revealed the tech stack. And the tech stack is the HeyGen generator. So, you can actually use HeyGen, which will create an AI face. Uh, and it actually features the AI Asian guy face. And then there's another app called 11 Labs, which features dozens and dozens of voices. So, the specific voice you can find there. And then the script, well, you know, you can use an LLM, you can use ChatGPT, you can use Grok, you can use uh Gemini. And basically, you can tell it to be as provocative as you want. You can even tell it to fabricate things for effect and embellishments and fabrications. That's actually adding a lot of spice, and that will often lead to a nice traffic boost.
Anyhow, I discovered that amongst the dozens of channels, there were these three big Asian guy channels, and they all had the name John in them. There was John AG, we'll call that Jag. There was your John AG, we can call that um Y Jag. And then there's OG John AG, we can call that OG Jag. And they're all singing the same song. They're all saying, "I'm John AG. The real John AG. All you other John AGs are just imitating." So, "Won't the real John AG please stand up?" That's what we're trying to find out here, right?
And the similarities of these three. That in itself is a smoking gun because it'll tell you that there's such a crazy similarity. These have got to be from the same either the same person, group, or at least same region. I think at least the same region, and they're competing with each other. So if you look at them side by side by side, let's put that up. They all have an origin video. Their first video from Jag and Y Jag and OG Jag respectively. Their origin videos were dated December 20th, 2025, December 26th, and December 29th. Look at how close they have origin videos. Isn't that something? In addition, size-wise, they're practically the same. The first is 73,000 subscribers, the next is 65, and the other one is 62. And really interestingly, they all had their own "I'm John AG, I'm truly John AG" video, and it dropped within a week's time, all these videos. So, respectively, January 18th, January 14th, and January 22nd. So, it's logical to think that they come from the same origin.
Now, what about the smoking guns? How did I conclude that these videos come from India? Where do content farms really generally come out of? And the prime suspects are India, China, the Philippines, and Eastern Europe. So the reason for that is these places have strong tech hubs and at the same time have low labor costs. So why India? How did I come up with that?
Well, the first smoking gun is this. Remember that original video I was telling you about that I saw uh and it's the the War and History Chronicles or something like that. It's now called The War Economy Reborn. The channel still exists, and I decided to check that channel again. And when I went to the actual channel page, I looked at the channel description, and there I found something very interesting. I saw in the channel description a link to the name Kapil Praj. So there you go. Kapil Praj is a very typical Indian name. So that already got me thinking, "Hm, this is one of the oldest channels featuring the Asian the AI Asian guy, and it's from India." Okay, so I'm now getting warmer, and I'm thinking maybe they're all from India, or most of them are from India, possibly.
And now, what about smoking gun number two? Well, this comes from the OG John AG video he posted recently. And that video is titled, "This Might Be My Final Upload. Please Watch Carefully." Oh, I watched carefully. I watched carefully, and I also listened carefully. And there were certain Indian phrases that triggered me. You see, I'm an immigration attorney. I've been doing that for a long time. As an immigration attorney, I know the Indian community extremely well, especially being in the Bay Area. And the there's certain phrases, and I was also hosting a radio program on an ethnic station, and there's certain phrases that you'll hear often. And so I want you to give this a listen.
"For a while now, we've had this growing feeling, a gut instinct that this channel might not be around for much longer. Yes, you heard that right."
"Yes, you heard that right."
"Yes, you heard that right."
I know that's very subtle, but I I have to tell you something. When I was in count when I was on that radio ch when I was on that radio station and I listened to the ads on that radio station, this was long ago, I would hear, "Yes, you heard that right. Yes, you heard it right" more than a few times. So, it's a very popular Indian u marketing hype statement or advertising hype statement. Now, granted, it's not absolutely exclusive to India, but you sometimes hear it in the US and the UK, but you don't hear it in Eastern Europe. You don't hear it in the Philippines much. You know, you don't hear this phraseology in these other regions that are typical for this type of content. So that further narrowed it down to India. But there is something else that really caught my attention. Give a listen.
I also posted a tweet on X from my official handle @OGJohnAG on the 3rd of February.
"@OGJohnAG"
You heard that, "@OGJohnAG." Now, this I've heard live in person over and over. Nobody except Indians refer to the @ sign as "at the rate." So that's a dead giveaway that this channel either is originating in India or maybe you have people outsourcing to India. But most likely, I would assume that it originates there.
So you might be asking, "Well, these are AI scripts. So how do Indianisms even find their way in?" Well, listen. You know, when you have an AI script, you have prompt engineers. And prompt engineers will bake in certain commands which will sometimes find your um style in it. So that's how you could easily imagine that an Indian content person was saying, "Make sure you'll you'll say that the handle is something at the rate something something.com, right?" So that's how the prompt engineer may even have a list of hype phrases that they want to use, like "You heard it right. You heard that right." So these are kind of dead giveaways that this content originates from India. And again, yes, this came from the OG John AG channel, but again, like I said, because these channels have so many similarities in their origin and the videos that they put out, the timing matches, you you have to assume that they come from the same place. Now, it's on them to actually come out and dispute this and say, "Well, actually..." And, you know, here's the thing. There's nothing wrong if the content is coming from India, and I don't really have an opinion one way or the other. It's up to you to watch the content and decide if you like it or not. So obviously, however you feel about this content, feel free to share it in the comments. Do you like this content? Is it helpful to you? It might be, but I just wanted to get to the bottom of where this this is from uh most likely and what the idea is.
So what's the motive? A lot of people were saying the Chinese Communist Party or a banking cartel trying to manipulate prices and influence things. And now I think that we can really shift away from that narrative. It most likely is textbook content and engagement farming. Finance is a very popular niche for that. And that's basically what's been going on. The narrative really seems to be: first, they saw finance as a great niche, and they were making all these general finance channels. Then silver started taking off, and these click farmers realized, "Huh, I'm going to focus on silver." And then someone really doubled down, or a bunch of them really doubled down, and decided to make these channels featuring Asian Guy and really leaned into it because this Asian Guy character took that name and branding organically in the Reddit forums. So fortunately, this is likely not some kind of sophisticated social engineering experiment. All the signs point to just this being an efficient, competitive, volume-driven uh content creation operation.
So then we got to know who is the original. Well, it's complicated, and I'll let you decide. I'll state the facts and put them side by side by side again. The oldest, okay, is John AG, spelled J-O-N A-G. His first video was posted December 20th. And so although it's the first channel and it's named John AG, I don't even know exactly, I can't trace back whether or not it was naming itself John AG from the beginning. And another thing is he never says John in his videos or if ever. He always says "Asian Guy" from the very beginning all the way up to present day. He's still he's still referring to himself as Asian Guy. So, another thing is his activity has really dwindled down, and this channel has only had 12 videos in the past 30 days despite the fact that it has the most followers.
And then who makes the strongest appeal that they're the real John AG? Well, that would be OG John AG. From what I've heard, he seems to put a lot of effort to convince you that he is the sole John AG out there. Um, or at least the most reputable and the most worthy of being listened to. But interestingly enough, in his earlier videos in January, he wasn't referring to himself as John. He was referring to himself as Asian Guy. Asian Guy week after week. It wasn't until January 19th that he added the name John. Give a listen.
"If you're loving this content and you're a real one from day one, comment OG John AG below."
"If you're loving this content and you're a real one from day one, comment OG John AG below."
Now, who is the first to put the name John AG on screen? That would be YAG. That would be your John AG. From the very start, if you look at January 6th, you'll see that on screen he puts John AG on the screen. So that predates OG John AG by 13 days uh of using that name. And your John AG has 210 videos in the past month versus OG John AG which has about 99. So your John AG is the most prolific and has been using that term John longer than anybody else. So, if anybody should be anointed the John AG, the original John AG, it's your John AG.
As for the quality of the content, to be honest, I haven't really consumed a lot of it, and I don't really follow these channels, but I know a lot of viewers out there do. So, what's your opinion? First of all, which one do you think is the real John AG? Which one is the best John AG? Share your thoughts in the comments. I'm really curious actually because, you know, maybe I might start consuming some of that content a little bit more, just hearing what people have to say. Uh, I I I always put, you know, content, no matter who puts it out, with a grain of salt. Even my own, you should put it with a take it with a grain of salt and always fact-check. I'm out here doing my best, trying to share with you the perspectives that I have, the best that I understand. And I would hope that that's what everyone does.
So, to recap and conclude, I'll leave you with this. It seems we're safe from a Chinese Communist Party conspiracy or, you know, uh, banking cartel collusion to influence us. But understand that this is just the beginning of AI content creation, and the potential for abuse is there. So this should be a warning to you to always fact-check things very carefully. Never take anything for granted. Listen to several experts and don't put faith in just one person. Trust your gut and trust your intellect.
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