Sure. So... basically, precious metals can have their value held down via supply/demand manipulation. Introducing things like ETF and COMEX and being able to trade high volumes of "paper" securities that aren't actually backed by metals.

I believe the banks are over-leveraging the shit out of metals as well... my understanding is that silver is more attractive for the short/market manipulations.

They thought there was too much supply to ever get physically consumed, but once that happens, they need to buy/sell/move much more silver to cover their positions in the physical market. Otherwise paper gets exposed/devalued bigly. Forcing them to buy the physical back.

Much like GME.

So, when we HOLD (read: hodl)... we WIN. Because they ultimately don't want anyone holding onto the assets/securities/metals they are trying to manipulate in an over-leveraged magical pretend world. We shatter this and can hypothetically spike the price of what we are holding; winning position simply because they never thought we'd have the balls to hold.

That's at least how my retard-brain thinks about it.