MTV has been lying to people, folks. MTV has been lying to people, but it's a great example of what you, as artists and content creators, can do for yourself to go viral, build strong fans. If you don't know what I'm talking about, I'm about to go ahead and put it on the screen. So let me go ahead and pull up this clip. We want to do your MTV Cribs.  And I was like, oh, okay. I said, you know what? I got a house for y'all to come to. And yo, straight up, yo, like no BS, yo. They came to my crib and they walked in my door because I caught them off guard. They have no clue on how I was living. So they walked up in my shed and they started looking around like, yo, you live up in here? I was like, yeah, I live up in here. My cousin was sleeping on the floor. And after I showed them the crib, they went outside and had a meeting. Oh, wow. So it was like a film crew of almost this size and they dumbed it down to like two people. One camera guy and one sound guy. And that was it. Cause that was all that could fit in my house. And they shot it and at the end they edited and then whatever, and then we made magic. It was like, yo. Hey man, first and foremost, do you remember that episode? I do remember that. Classic, unforgettable episode of MTV Cribs. If somehow y'all missed that, you can just Google MTV Cribs or we'll put it in the link or whatever. And it's a great episode cause the house was trash, but they've been lying to people. Like when he said they had a house set up for me, I was like, wait, huh? Like that just hit me. I was like, wait. So they were going to give you a house. What do you mean?  That sounded crazy. So I looked into it and you remember JoJo, the singer, right? Yeah. She said her episode was fake, right? So she said her and her mom weren't even living in the house at the moment. Her and her mom, for whatever reason, were living in hotels at the moment. So she went to her uncle's house and her whole episode is just her uncle's house, like her cousins, toys and all that stuff in that episode. And funny enough is that she regret it. She should have just bawled out and did one of the houses that they do for people. Yeah, 100% bro. What? And played it big. But that just, let me know, I was like, hold up. So not all episodes, apparently, but many of the episodes, hey, completely fake, it's not even these people houses.   We got to get it in. There's so many reasons. And it feels different when it's MTV that's tricking you versus the artists, like inspiring and conspiring to trick you. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, cause I always had that deline on. Like it wasn't me guys, you know what I'm saying? That's just what they want to do. But it's weird. It does have a weird thing about it. But what I want to say to that though, for my artist standpoint, content creator standpoint, this is entertainment, baby. I'll go fake it till you make it. Yeah, fake it. I'm like, not even a fake it till you make it, bro. Cause that fake it till you make it gets used so poorly in action. You're like, aw, dang, right? I didn't mean it like that. I'm talking, like I knew a dude that was in debt because he bought this BMW and all these nice clothes. And he was telling me like he bought all this stuff so he could seem like he was doing big. Funny enough, he was trying to be an artist but I was so far from out ever being in the music industry at that point. And like I was probably like a freshman in college. And he was like, he had to maintain that lifestyle cause his brother looked up to him and all this stuff. But he was broke, right? Faking it till you make it. So I don't mean that. What I do mean is the ability to create something that's not real and then make it pop though. If we go back to EM tripling, right? At the show, creating a fake moment, right? Or creating or reframing a moment in that first case, right? Oh, it was only 13 people out on this show but I'm so thankful for it. And then that goes viral. Some people making fun of him or having 13 people to show. Some people kind of like cheering him along and encouraging him and calling him humble. All that great stuff, right? But because he reframed the moment. Then the other moment that we talked about with him in particular since we're talking about him is he scripted the whole idea of the, yo bro forgot his name, had somebody in the crowd. They scripted that, right? And then obviously that went viral as well.  In the entertainment industry in particular is fake. Let me take a quick second to say if you're an artist trying to blow your music up or if you're a manager, a music professional in general, trying to help an artist blow their music up, I have something that's a game changer for you and it's completely free. As you may know, we've helped multiple artists go from zero to hundreds of thousands of streams. We've helped multiple artists go from hundreds of thousands to millions of streams, chart on Billboard, GoViral, all of that stuff. And we've now made the way we've branded multiple artists and helped them go viral completely free step by step in Brandman Network. All you have to do is check out brandmannetwork.com. You apply, it's completely free. But the thing is, we're not gonna let everybody in forever. So the faster you apply, the better your chance of getting accepted. Brandmannetwork.com, check it out, back to the video. Yeah, bro, sometimes you just gotta lie until you fly, bro. You know what I'm saying? I stand on that, man. But, how to get it though, it kind of makes me think of that conversation we had about artists making other artists pay for their music videos because they have a brand to maintain. So I can understand MTV, like I said, one logistics reason is it makes it faster. We know exactly what we gotta go with the way we look like, if it's safe. But then also it's like, man, MTV is in the game. They saw behind the scenes. They knew every artist wasn't as popping as they probably portrayed themselves to be. As I meant, do I risk pulling up to an artist house and getting in a red man situation when this show is supposed to be like showing the lifestyle of the grandiose, right? Like a kind of pain that larger in life image, especially in the 2000s, bro, the 2000s are crazy.  So the lie was in full effect back then. Every entity making sure the lie stands still, you know what I'm saying? So, and then the Georgia one is crazy too, because I can see them in the same situation, I'm like, oh, are you homeless? No, no, no, no, we gotta get you a grill. Yeah, exactly, not today you ain't, you know what I'm saying? So I get it from that standpoint, but I like that, you know, more artists are open about that because I think there's a gripe with smaller artists. I actually seen in a comment one about videos where someone was saying that their biggest gripe with bigger artists is that they a lot of smaller artists and make them think, you know, the game is a certain way just for them to, you know, the lucky few to grind their way up and see like, oh, this ain't nothing like, you know, these artists were kind of telling me and then the ones that never get that far just believe it, you know what I'm saying? And that becomes like the floor for them. And then they just speaking their way don't know. So one just hated that part. Yeah, but always, bro. This context, right?  And you don't realize, no, it's not you. It's they have things on their side that you aren't unaware of completely.  Because sometimes these people just popping, they have no idea why, right? But they'll make it seem like I planned this thing out. Right? So there's so many ways that it is a detriment to other artists that follow. Yeah, bro, even worse that they didn't plan it out. But my biggest gripe with old artist interviews would be like, you know, how did you make it to this point? Oh, you know, man, I was just kind of doing me.   Yeah, that's a whole other subject. We'll get in another day.  So there is some of that as well.  Because the label kind of kept them from that back in the day.  But because I'm thinking about it from Red Man's perspective, bro, like that had to be a hard thing to do back then.  I guess his, the benefit to him is that, you know, he was, I guess the equivalent of like a street rapper. Them, right? Yeah, so it was like positive brand building for him. You know what I'm saying? Like, oh, he's still getting it out the mud, bro. He's still got his cousin sleeping on the floor. You know what I'm saying? See what you're saying? That was wild. I can only imagine waking up and then seeing yourself on TV like that at some point. And I think just for a small, you know, branding moment, there's layers to this, right? Because the show branded itself and had to maintain this image, like you said. So, yo, bro, like you want to get this house so we can just make sure everything looks the part. And we don't want you looking crazy, right? But because of that standard, when that, you know, a red man came like he came, it broke that norm. And then it made his episode, a viral episode in that time. Like that's one episode that if you watch episodes, you don't forget that one because it was just so crazy to see at that time. Yeah, I remember that, bro. That's what I'm saying. I remember that episode. And I don't think a lot of artists would do that today. I think a lot of artists, they would be like, give me the house. I don't want people to see how I'm really living right now. Give me the house. Yeah, I actually would agree with that. It's still a very weird thing. But yeah, artists, so much of this is a sham, but it's the entertainment industry. So don't think of it as fake like they're trying to trick me as an artist and young professional who's trying to come in a game. It's entertainment. That literally is what it is. It's magic. Yeah, it's trying to trick the fans. It's the movie magic to TV magic. I remember going to a talk show. It was Monique's talk show when she had it. Here was at one of Turner Studios. And the entire talk show, it was a late night show on BET, was shot in a completely different order than what it showed on TV because of the efficiency of moving shit around. They had to move the set. We got this one room. So we're gonna have Ghostface killer perform now, even though technically we're not gonna have them shown until after the third commercial break or something like that, right? But once we move the set, that chance is gonna be gone. So we're not gonna move the set back just for them to perform. So it makes sense while all these things are in place in many ways, just like MTV is like, oh, it's easier. We got to schedule. So there's reasons for it. And then also it's just a better experience. People say they want like realistic movies and things like that.  You don't wanna see me actually walk all the way down the stairs from our room into this kitchen. Once you wake up, I might walk in a hallway.  That's what you wanna see. You don't wanna see every single step. So this is the entertainment industry. That's the part of it. You just need to also make sure that you're not doing something that's going to be a massive threat to your particular brand, right? But aside from the branding image faking it, right? The more important part is just understanding you can create moments in general, right? If you give it the right attention, that can become a bigger moment, right? Period, people do these fake relationships. They make it seem like it's a relationship for a moment.  That's it. Yeah, bro. Gotta deceive until they believe. Hey, man, look, I know we coming off the holidays, man. You hung around the old folk over the holidays, man. Fly to your fly to see today, believe, man.  Now that last one was just sitting on my heart. Like it hit me like halfway through the conversation. I gotta hold on to this. Hey, we gonna put that a tweet storm of that one. All right, well, let's get it to.


Hey girlfriends, I'm Bianca Renee, and you're watching Bianca Renee Today, and today we're gonna get into a little sticky of a topic, a little debate that happened on Twitter this past week. So what happened was Zendaya, the actress, she wore a 4C wig for her photo shoot for her 25th birthday, and apparently Black Twitter wasn't feeling it, and they had some things to say.  Now it's just called Black Twitter. I didn't make it up, that's just, it is what it is. But I found this very, very interesting. Before I give my opinion and share yours that you guys shared with me on Instagram, let me just read you what I found on Twitter. Well, first let me show you the picture. Here's the picture from her photo shoot for her birthday, rockin' in Afro. Some people had tweeted, our genetics aren't a fashion statement because we don't choose them, they're given. This was a lot, and no shade to her but do better. I have people say no shade and then I throw shade, anyways. It's annoying for them to be chosen or accepted because they're on a specific Western digestible version of us. Nah, she wrong for this. Why is she a biracial wearing a 4C wig for political Black performative actions? This was super exploitative. I don't want the Afro to be associated with activism. Black women need to gatekeep their hair texture. So, it was kind of interesting that people were kind of claiming that this was kind of like a cultural appropriation thing when Afros are definitely a part of Black culture. But here's the thing, Zendaya's literally Black. She is half Black, her dad is Black. She's Black. I don't know if you can culturally appropriate your own culture. I don't know, I thought that was a stretch and this could go into the whole light skin versus dark skin thing. Type three hair versus type four hair. Like it's getting really nitty gritty and it's just gonna, I don't know, I just don't like this inner controversy even within Black culture. Like this isn't Twitter having a problem. This is Black Twitter having a problem. And we recently had a whole debate about people wearing their bonnets out in public and the main argument was people need to stop policing Black hair and stop telling Black women how to rock their hair. Yet now this is Black Twitter talking about another Black girl's hair. Ah, let me read some more tweets. Someone else said, I thought y'all wanted Afros to be represented in a good way. This was not activism, it was a fashion statement. Plus, it's just hair. Someone else said, what's the difference between Zendaya wearing an Afro wig and you wearing a 30 inch straight wig? Everything is not a problem, I promise.  How y'all gonna get mad that she's wearing an Afro but y'all wear weaves? That's not even 4C. Not y'all mad at Zendaya for wearing an Afro wig when half of y'all too afraid to rock your natural Afros. Oh, dang. I didn't say it. I'm just reading Twitter, I'm just reading Twitter. So, yeah, I just found this to be a very interesting topic that I really wanted to hear your input on so feel free to leave the comments, your thoughts below in the comments section. Keep things nice, let's not, you know, have any fights happening down there. But just want your honest opinion because I will admit, even I, being a biracial girl, I'm mixed with Black, white, bunch of other stuff but my dad is very Black with a very Black Afro that he rocked at one point and even I was thinking like, I forgot what it was but I was like, I just love volume, you guys know that. And I think an Afro is a beautiful hairstyle and I just love the big volume because I can pick my hair out as much as I want and I can get it pretty big. Like this is as big Afro-esque as my hair can get but even this isn't still like a real true legit Afro in my opinion.  So I was like, what do I mean? Like is that right? I'm literally half Black but I know as these tweets proven that people would be mad because I guess I'm not Black enough, I'm not full Black so I can't rock a different hair texture. Like I don't know, I think things are just weird because we can go down the spectrum of curl types but it's like we're not allowed to go up for some reason. Like if you have an Afro, naturally you can wear a wig of my texture. You could wear a wig that's straight and it's okay. I don't know, do you guys feel this way? If a girl that has straight hair wears a curly wig like that's just my texture, is that still a problem? Or is it just if we go into type four or if somebody has wavy hair and goes to a curly type three hair, is that also a problem or is it just type four? I don't know, I think it's getting a little tricky.  Okay, why is it that it's cultural appropriation to wear a fro but not if you're black and you wear straight hair? And he explained in a brand good point that it's because of the negative stigma that's always associated with black hair. For example, he went to a middle school, high school, was like one of those schools that's like all the grades. As a black man, he had cornrows in school and I think even in Afro, I think the cornrows were the problem. And he got pulled into the principal's office and was told that he cannot wear braids in school. It was against like the dress code and the school rules. And it was, I think they even said it was gang affiliated. It was a gang affiliated hairstyle. Like anytime you tell the story, like this is wild. This is in California, this is the 90s. And he was told as a black kid that he cannot wear braids because it was like gang affiliated. So then he ended up shaving his head eventually because they were literally threatening to like kick him out of school. They were gonna cap his grades. So he was just gonna basically fail if he didn't do something about his hair. This would be, I mean, I don't know if they're still doing this at the school, but this sounds wild now in the year 2021. He then shaved his head and then he was told that his hair was too short and that that was also a problem. So it's just like, so the problem is like he could wear braids or anybody could have braids and it could have like a negative stigma or maybe you just wore your natural hair to work and it was considered unprofessional or unkept.  It's too big, it's too kinky, it's too this, it's too that. But then let's say a celebrity of a non-black descent decides to wear braids. Now it's, oh, it's such an exotic look. It's so stylish. Everyone loves it. That's the problem. It's a problem that one culture can get bashed for it and then another can get praised for doing the same thing that they stole from another culture. And that's what makes you go like, okay, I get it. Especially if you're claiming that it's like your thing. If you did this hairstyle, you give it a new name and now it's like your thing, you're not getting any credit to the actual source of the style of the culture. That is definitely where it becomes a problem. Another example could be like Kim Kardashian. She was gonna create her line called Kimono. And then the whole Asian community or just people with a brain were like, um, no, you can't just call your company something that's based off of a traditional gown in our culture and it has nothing to do with our culture and you're not giving credit to where you even got the name. Like there was just a total disconnect and that's where people have an issue because now you're just stealing something from someone else's culture that has a really relevant meaning and you're just kinda making it your own thing. So that, that I understand. That is where it's definitely just like, it's just insulting at that point to know that if you wear your natural hair or you wear your braids to work, it's an issue. But then if someone who's not black does the same exact thing as you and they don't get any slack for it, that's what kinda makes you raise an eyebrow. Let me just play both sides. We also want, I think the ultimate goal would be for black hair to be known as the most beautiful hair in the world. And in order for it to be the most beautiful, the most accepted, it has to be the most popular. And something to be most popular means everybody wants it. So I guess if you want afros or black hair or curls to be the most popular, it would be the biggest sign that everybody wants to have this type of hair now. It would be a great thing. I would love for everyone to love curly hair. I would love to just completely lose the stigma of any type of black hair being bad or any association, anything negative because it literally just grows out of your head like that. We have no control over the hair that grows out of our head. And that's what makes us unique. That's what makes a beautiful, period. So how do we get there? How do we make a nice transition to where everybody wants afros? Like right now, everybody can have straight hair and it's not a problem. So if that's not a problem, how do we make afros not a problem? How do we make curly hair not a problem? And it's just kinda like, I can tell some of you guys are like, mm, no, I don't want everyone wearing afros. And I get that, like it's tricky. And I see this even when I get braids. Every time I post a braid video, one of my most common comments is, so I'm not black, but my hair is really crazy, it's really curly. Am I allowed to get braids? Is it inappropriate if I get braids? Like people always ask me that. I don't have all the answers. And at the end of the day, I can literally be like, wow, I love this apple. It's so yummy. And people will comment like, wow, you're not gonna talk about oranges. Oh, so you hate oranges. Wow, Bianca hates oranges. And that's just kinda how it goes. But I was even like talking to my stylist about this.  It's a beautiful style, obviously.  And you understand that you didn't create this new braid look. This is not a new look. You bring in an inspo pick of Beyonce. Like you know you're getting this from someone black. Do I have a problem with that? Because I understand why you would want braids because it's a beautiful hairstyle. I understand why you would want curly hair. And even I would understand why you'd want a big apro because of the volume and it's just like, it's such a look. But then we also have to be careful because it's also more than a look. It also was used as a form of political activism in the 70s with Black Panthers. It was to make a statement about a very important issue at the time. It was more than just fashion. So I don't know, what do you guys think? Like it's kind of like as long as you understand the history and you understand that you didn't create this and you know where it came from, I feel like it should be okay.  Tell me the history. Prove it to me. Prove it to me that you like own and like deserve this hairstyle. They're not like, your friends might know your heart. Your family might know, you know, that you're not just doing this for clout. Like you just genuinely love the look. But at the end of the day, you're gonna make someone upset. So you could, you could get braids.  Like it's just literally inevitable. But I want to know your opinion. So much so that I just asked you on Instagram, what do you guys think about this Ndea situation? And I think you guys all passed the vibe check. I'm gonna just say that right now. But let me read you some of the responses I got. Hmm, I mean, four C girls were three C wigs. So shrug. Skin tone and hair texture have more to do with genetics. So was Black Twitter being racist? Aren't afros basically the epitome of cool? Why deny her a chance to feel awesome on her birthday? I like that one. People wear straight wigs, wavy wigs and curly wigs all the time though. She has every right to wear it. I don't see a problem with it. And I made dark skin type four natural. That's the opinion we really need to hear from. I wanna hear all your opinions obviously in the comments. But especially if you are a black woman and especially if you are someone with type four hair, I would love to hear how you would feel about that. Do you feel like, hey, I know my four C hair is beautiful and I understand why everybody else would wanna rock it. Or do you feel like, no, I always get messed for my hair and it's always a struggle and it's not fair for you to be able to just put it on and take it off when I have to live with this every day. Let me know. People are saying it's wrong because she isn't wearing her correct hair texture. But with that viewpoint, women with four C hair shouldn't be wearing wigs that are of another hair texture like they usually do. Bioratials can have four C hair. Hair type does not equal skin color. That is very true. I have to start following someone Instagram. I think she's black and Asian. But she actually like just feature-wise, she looks Asian but she has an afro. And I think she looks so dope. And I feel like that's not something you see very often. But to see someone who looked Asian with an afro, like it was a whole vibe and that's literally the hair that grew out of her head.  Cultural appropriation, da-da-da. Little do they know but that's literally how she was born. You never know people. People are just so quick to judge. When we wear straight hair wigs, it's because we feel pretty with them. Is it wrong to feel pretty with four C hair? I say, absolutely not. You should feel pretty with four C hair. It's a shame that a biracial woman cannot acknowledge all aspects that make up her identity. I agree. All right, here's a switch up comment. Someone said, she's tone deaf. Women with four C hair have to live with having four C hair. They can't just take it off. Here's another one.  We're both and can celebrate both. That's the beauty of who we are. Stop putting us in a box. Oh, she said what she said. And I definitely get that all the time.    Like, cause it's just really not about that. But different people have different struggles and I don't think it's right to say that one person's struggle is more than another or more important than another because we only can experience what we know. And I think it's important to acknowledge the different struggles that other people are dealing with. That's how you are empathetic to other people's situations. And I think you should be able to put yourself in other people's shoes. But I also don't think you should be little someone else's struggle because it's different than yours. Why do they think so bad of it though? I don't like when people shame others for their good intentions. And I don't think Zendaya was even trying to like make a statement. It wasn't like a political activist type of movement. I think it was just a creative choice that she wanted to rock on her birthday. And like, I don't think it literally went past that thought like red lipstick or pink lipstick. Afro hair or straight hair? Like I think it was just a creative choice. Who cares? Stop gatekeeping hair, that part. No one says a thing when people wear straight hair wigs to the floor. Why is this different?  Like we had to because we were told to straighten our hair because that was the accepted look. So there's a difference there. So you're choosing curly because you just can and it's like a fun hairstyle for you. But if you have curly or kinkier texture, you were told that that was not okay and you had to make it straight. And to this day, we still have people that refuse to rock their curly hair because they either one don't know how to do it. They think it's too hard. Their family members told them that it's not appropriate. Their work told them that it's not appropriate. Like we still are struggling with this. And it's just, it's a negative stigma going one way but just a fun decision to go the other way. So in conclusion, I don't see a problem with Zendaya wearing a 4C hair wig. That's just me, that's my opinion. Especially because she is literally half black. Black is part of her culture and it is possible for her DNA to have given her that actual hair. We see it all the time. Just because you have lighter skin does not mean that it is impossible for you to have a tighter curl pattern. That's just the facts. Now, if she wasn't black at all, I could see there being more of a controversy there. And then you kind of have to feel like, well, what's the intent? Are you claiming that this is all you? This is your new hip style? Or are you doing it for a certain like political reason? Like, I don't know, it just, it raises more questions. I just, I don't know. The whole conversation kind of just makes me uncomfortable. Especially being mixed because I get it.  Like, it's definitely a thing. I don't know. I wanna know what you guys think. At what point is it a problem? And how do we fix it? How can we just make all the beautiful things of black culture popular enough to be for everyone but to where it's not like taking away from black culture or appropriating it? How do we change it from appropriating to celebrating? That's what I wanna know. How do we get there? What are the proper steps? And do you believe that it's okay for someone to get braids if you're not black? And if you say, oh, well, as long as they know why they're getting it or like the history behind it, how are you really gonna know if they know all that? Like, if you walk past someone at the store, how are you gonna really know if they know the history?  Where do we draw the line? And do you think it's right for a culture to like own a hairstyle? Like this is ours, no one else can do it. And if someone can, what are the proper steps to do that? Let me know. Thank you all for your input on Instagram. I loved hearing all your different opinions. Leave your thoughts down below on this very interesting topic and let us know how you think we can grow from here. If you enjoyed this curl talk, make sure to leave me a comment and let me know. Give me a thumbs up and subscribe so you don't miss any more of my videos. I post new videos every week. 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Good morning. Welcome to CMC markets on Friday the 8th of July and this quick look at the week ahead beginning the 11th of July It was me Michael Houston It's been an interesting week albeit. I've only been back at my desk in the last couple of days But in that time we've seen markets particularly the German market hit It's a new low for this year before rebounding a marginal low and you know for this year We've also seen a fairly decent rebound in US markets slightly more different in different performance for markets in Europe Although we have seen a slightly more resilient tone in the past few days and at the moment markets are caught in sort of cross currents of fares over Inflation and concerns about recession and if I look back to where the footsie was just Around about two weeks ago When I signed off footsie 100 isn't really that much different to where it was then slightly higher But the backs is quite a bit lower and I think part of them pardon pardon parcel of that and weakness in the decks is partially down to Germany and Europe's exposure I think to Rushing gas and the fact that the Germans are already starting to ration the use of Gas in their own domestic economy already and it's not even when to yet So while an awful lot of the narrative this week has been very much UK focused and The announced resignation of Prime Minister Boris Johnson yesterday The noise of that Has rather overshadowed What has been and could well be a further decline in the euro Parity now those of you with who are regular listeners to these These commentaries these videos will know that in April I suggested that euro was on its way to wards Parity and potentially even lower We remain much closer to that goal now than we were then Also the fact that we've seen the ECB European Central Bank Announced that they're making progress on their frig fragmentation tool personally. I have my doubts about that I think it's going to be More noise than anything else. I think it'll be very very difficult for them to design a policy That will prevent fragmentation without running into Problems with respect to the capital key and the amount of Italian bonds they can buy relative to German bonds But that's the discussion for Another week potentially two weeks from now when the ECB meets on the 21st of July and Certainly a significant tightrope for ECB President Christine Lagarde to navigate as we look ahead to the Upcoming week We've got quite a bit of fairly important macro data coming up but we've also got the start of US earning season and I think Given the current weakness that we're seeing in Stock markets generally Yes, this this earning season is likely to be very important in the overall context of where US markets go next over the course of the past few days. We've seen four days of gains We're heading into US payrolls this afternoon The debate at the moment Amongst Fed policy makers this week or the minutes the Fed minutes from this week Suggests that the Fed is entirely focused on inflation. They don't have Any concerns about recession or if they do they're certainly not manifested They haven't manifested themselves in the minutes where there was no mention of recession despite the fact that US GDP For the first quarter was confirmed minus 1.6% and The fact that in the second quarter things haven't been looking that much more rosy so You know raising the prospect that the US economy could already be in Recession particularly if the Q2 GDP numbers which we get at the end of this month beginning and next month Also show a very weak GDP print Just as a reminder a recession is technically two consecutive quarters of negative growth And we've obviously already seen one minus one point six We may seen we may have seen a bit of a rebound in inventory In Q2 which may well save the US economy from a technical recession But if we look at all the the main indicators retail sales consumer confidence Even the recent ISM numbers, they're starting to show that inflation is also Starting to slow down potentially as a consequence of weaker demand the various PPI numbers PCE numbers have also been in decline for the last two or three months and we've got US CPI coming up later in the week along with US PPI for June and I think this is one of the big conundrums that US central bankers are currently faced with because This week's minutes. Obviously the Fed policy makers reiterated their hawkish stance You had Christopher Waller Fed Governor Christopher Waller and James Bullard of the St. Louis Fed Reinforcing their belief that 75 basis point rate hike is coming in July this month, and I think that's pretty much a done deal I think the Fed have to do that, but I think this afternoon's payrolls report Could play a part in the overall narrative when it comes to what comes after July at the moment the expectation is for some aggressive tightening front-loading rate hikes 75 in July a potential 75 or 50 in September But the next week or so could undermine that September narrative We've also got Jackson Hole as well in August. So there's that but next week US CPI is expected or forecast to rise from 8.6 percent To 8.8 percent now that for me seems rather counterintuitive and the reason for that is that PCE Which is the Fed's core? Inflation mandate has been in decline since February Since it peaks in February PPI has also declined from the numbers that we saw in March down from 9.6 percent in March falling to 8.3 percent in May So and we've seen PCE also come down more than expected in those recent numbers now We've seen the yields jump Over the course of the past week or so the US 10 year yield has jumped up from Closing at around about 2.88 percent last week Well, we saw a big decline in yields and around about Just below 3% now around about 2.97 But obviously today's payrolls numbers could move that dial quite can significantly one way or the other a decent number a Decent payrolls number could push that 10 year back above 3% a week number and by a week number I mean anything less than a hundred Could actually temper those rate hike expectations Particularly if CPI next week Doesn't rise from 8.6 percent to 8.8 percent But actually falls because I think what we're seeing at the moment is US CPI Expectations are moving in completely the opposite direction to PPI and PCE that doesn't ring That doesn't sit right with me now That's not to say that it won't happen and that's not to say that potentially we could see we're seeing some services prices filter through into these numbers But you would expect PPI to be more forward-looking and that's been in decline for the last three months So why isn't CPI going in the same direction? We'll find out more on the 13th of July when we get the CPI numbers And then we get PPI the following day. We've also got US retail sales next week and They actually fell back 0.3% in May And that was slightly unexpected, but really was it was it really when you've got consumer confidence Which has been falling significantly over the course of the past three months and has now dropped below 100 a Michigan consumer confidence is at a record low June retail sales are forecast to come back at around about 0.9% now Let's not forget the only decline in US retail sales we've seen this year was in those main numbers So we could get a bigger revision lower in those main numbers or we could get a weaker June number At the moment retail sales probably aren't telling us the whole story when it comes to how the US economy is doing But I find it difficult to square Cratering consumer confidence with buoyant consumer spending I guess we'll find out on the 15th of July Anyway in terms of the rebound that we've been seeing thus far in US markets It's been a fairly decent rebound over the course of the past Couple of weeks from the time that we made those lows on the 17th of June We've been slowly trending higher, but we're still very much in the context of the overall downtrend That's been in place since those peaks back in March. So I'll be paying particular attention to how NASDAQ behaves around these peaks here around about 3950 but also the 50-day moving average and see whether or not we get a move back towards 4,000 I think 4,000 is probably the most important level there in the NASDAQ When it comes to the S&P 500 it's a similar sort of story again Taking the peaks from March drawn a line through the peaks there and again 50-day moving average And I think 4,000 level there. In fact, that's what I was looking at in the first place So it really helps if I actually start paying attention to the charts that I'm looking at my bad Ladies and gentlemen, you'll have to forgive me. I've drawn a slightly different line here with respect to the peaks on the NASDAQ simply on the basis that is a much more volatile index So what we've got again is the 50-day moving average We've also got the peaks back in the end of June, which is around about 12,230 the big level I think for the NASDAQ remains around about 13,000 Why because it coincides with these lows here and these peaks here So that for me, I think will be very important in the wider context of Whether or not we get a significant turnaround and rebound in the NASDAQ 100 Let's have a quick look at the weekly chart to see whether or not we've got any evidence of a Bullishing golfing a little bit a little bit of a potential for a for a bottom with the 200 week moving average So that's certainly worth keeping an eye out for given the fact that it was a fairly decent support area back in March 2020 So we are very much at a tipping point when it comes to the NASDAQ 100 and the 200 week moving average So it's worth keeping an eye on that over the course of the next few days in the next few weeks Let's also quickly look back at the S&P 500 and similarly look at the 200 week moving average on that And again here we are back here and it's also three and a half thousand Is also the 50% retracement of the entire up move from the 2020 lows to the peaks at the start of this year So certainly the 200 week moving average is likely to be the next key support level on any future move Towards the downside and US earning season will play a key component Into that given the fact that the Federal Reserve has shown little sign That it is going to ease up on its rate hiking cycle That's all brings me on to I think the narrative for next week because we've got JP Morgan Chase Morgan Stanley and Citigroup second quarter earnings And I'm going to start with JP Morgan Chase simply on the basis of the fact that it's the biggest US bank And I mean this this this picture really tells the story We're very much in a downtrend for JP Morgan Chase as we have been for Morgan Stanley And Citigroup the direction of travel has been clear despite the prospect of higher rates US banks have performed poorly And they although they aren't the worst performers in the S&P 500 this year The sector is still around down around 25% the year to date And I think it's really concerns about a recession by year end if obviously we're not already in one But also the impact that the higher cost of living will start to have on consumer spending In the face of rising energy And food prices We've also seen weak Housing data that has also Fed in to the weaker banking narrative A flat to inverted yield curve Isn't helping the banks either with you got the US 2 year yield above the US 10 year yield, which is a significant Recession warning an imminent recession warning when I say imminent we're talking three to six months out Always assuming that we're not already there By any measure though JP Morgan's The numbers have still been fairly solid, but it's really about the direction of travel. It's really about the potential for only earnings growth and then at the last set of numbers Home lending was down 37% Mainly due to the higher interest rate environment And I think this is a trend that looks set to continue over the course of the next few weeks and the bank announced at the end of June That it was looking to reallocate over 1000 employees from its mortgage business. So that gives you an idea I think of How the US banking system is adapting to lower demand for mortgage another concern Was the bank was setting aside one and a half billion dollars in various loan loss provisions due to rising inflation risks so I'll be paying particular attention to the following when it comes to US bank earnings, and that's not just JP Morgan or city group Wells Fargo and Morgan Stanley it will be What are deposits doing and q1 JP Morgan deposits for up 9% Credit and debit card spending were up by 21% and card loan balances were up by 11% Um, so all of these were rising in q1 Will they continue to rise in q2 or start to see a slowdown? Certainly the consumer credit numbers that we saw at the start of this year Do give me a little bit of pause in terms of how sustainable The record consumer credit numbers we've been seeing over the course of the past few months We've seen numbers of 40 to 50 billion dollars a month increase. I mean that's just Crazy stuff when you consider where it was at the end of last year Still expected to see decent profits from most of these banks, but I think the bigger question will be Surrounding the outlook. How do these banks see the outlook for q3? So JP Morgan a Jew on the 14th as on Morgan Stanley City group is due on the 15th of july So if we look at all of these charts in turn we can see straight away pretty much Pretty much a similar sort of pattern drifting lower Maybe we're starting to carve out a little bit of a base at around about these sorts of areas of 45 dollars We will have to wait and see but certainly I think the earnings outlook Is likely to be fairly challenging for US banks going forward And it'll be interesting to see how they see Economic conditions, loan growth, business investment, and what have you over the course of the next quarter We've also got Chinese second quarter GDP And Chinese retail sales Next week as well, and I think the China numbers could be fairly significant. They probably get Probably get They'll probably be a little bit discounted Given the announcement this week that the Ministry of Finance in China is reported to be Bringing forward around about 220 billion dollars of stimulus from next year into the second half of this year But I think what is going to be a bit of a sobering Sobering number is the Chinese second quarter GDP number and the expectation because I think whichever way you slice and dice it China's GDP target for this year now looks completely unattainable Let me just remind you of what is expected when it comes to second quarter to four-year GDP The target at the start of the year was 5.5 percent First quarter GDP came in at 4.8 percent Second quarter GDP is probably going to struggle to get anywhere near to that given the covid lockdowns That we saw pretty much across the entire country and particularly in Shanghai and Beijing over the course of April May and for most of june and the stop start nature Of these zero covid policy is likely to make it Extremely difficult to get anywhere close to that 5.5 percent GDP target In fact, I'll be surprised if they get anywhere close to three and a half percent Given the current zero covid strategy. So We've got retail sales. We've got China GDP the GDP for China is expected to come in at minus 2.3 percent on a quarterly basis and One percent on an annualized basis. So 4.8 percent was the first quarter number on an annualized basis We're expected to see a rise of one percent on an annualized basis But on a quarter on quarter basis We're expected to see a 2.3 percent contraction retail sales are also Um expected to rise ever so slightly After seeing a 6.7 percent decline In may we're going to see a 0.4 percent rise In june as some of the some of the chinese economy Started to reopen and people were able to go out and actually spend some money having been locked down Almost or April and may so we're likely to see a fairly weak number In june and if we do get a positive number Well, you know that that will that will at least be something but certainly There's no indication of a significant rebound on the cards quite yet. We've declined 11.1 percent In april for retail sales 6.7 percent in may We may eke back into positive territory in june But i'm not going to be holding my breath as for industrial production We're expected to see a rise of 4.3 percent in june Up from a 0.7 percent rise in may so That's industrial production In terms of the wider wider wider markets Let's look at the footsie 100. This is a weekly chart. I'm just going to change it back to a daily chart and We're still very much stuck in a range. I've seen no reason to Um change the range that we've been in for the course of the past 12 months the bottom of that range is just below 7 000 top of the range around about 7 600 the recent weakness that we've seen in oil prices Hasn't really impacted the footsie 100 that much Although we have seen a little bit of a sell-off in bp and shell shares But certainly if we look at say for example the dax The dax has been much more affected by the recent weakness breaking below this trend line here Which I can now remove and trading back towards the march lows of earlier this year making a marginal new low only a marginal one but still At around about an 18 month low 19 month low Earlier this week, but we're able to hold above it. So that level 12400 Still very much a key support area for the dax We've also got euro dollar which is now continuing now having broken below that 103 40 area Really does now open up the move towards parity If we look at it there and we zoom it all the way out we can see that When I zoom that out like so We've got the potential now to head towards 96 20 I talked about this back in april this break Of this triangular consolidation here that's been playing now over the course of the past four or five years We broke out of it Which suggested that we could we'll see a breakdown towards parity We are now starting to see that unfold and if we break below it if we break below one Then my minimum price target is for 96 20 but overall If you take it to its ultimate conclusion Then euro is probably heading towards 90 over the course of the next three or four years As a consequence of this pattern breakout and this is why I like that analysis while it may not Give you an indication of very very short-term moves in terms of direction It can be it can be a very valuable tool So certainly in terms of the overall direction for euro dollar The prognosis does not look positive and it would take a significant rebound For me to change my view of a lower euro dollar Over the course of the next few months the next resistance now is 103 40 50 now that we're below that That should now act as a significant area of resistance As does this obviously trend line through here Which we would need to sort of see a significant move above to break The downwards cycle what does that mean for cable? Well, unfortunately cable is getting caught up in the strong dollar move and we've seen that play out With this break of 1985 This does not look promising For further cable gains the fact that we broke below 1985 Potentially does open up now open us up now to move down towards 116 and 115 And if you think euro dollars going to go down Quite a bit lower Then you've got to take the view that cable is probably going to do the same thing. Maybe not to the same extent But nonetheless The strong dollar view that I have is going to take a significant It's going to take some significant means to dislodge it Given the technicals that we're currently looking at right now So certainly I think unless we can get back above 121 and hold above 121 then It's very difficult to make a bullish case for cable, you know, and I think for me I like to try and find a bullish case for cable because it's very easy to chop the pound down You know, it's something that an awful lot of people do And and it's hard not to it's really hard not to when you look at the fundamentals surrounding it But unless we get a break back above the 50 day moving average In the in in the medium term Then the line of lease resistance for cable is to sell the rallies. It's again. It's a strong dollar story. What does that mean for euro sterling? Well, we did break lower We broke that trend line from the lows in april We're now back towards 200 day moving average, which is acting as a little bit of support But you've got to think if euro dollar is going to move quite a bit lower then euro sterling should also Go the same way though not to the same extent if we look at euro sterling. It's been very messy It's been very hard to predict Uh, but ultimately the fact that we've broken below These series of lows here suggests that any pullbacks around about 85 2030 Could well be a decent area to Sell into for a move back towards 84 and then 83 going forward Um, Brent crude. Let's have a look at Brent crude Very quickly. We broke below that line here But what we haven't done is broken below that line here on the 200 day moving average And we've also got potentially a little bit of a bullish reversal there Certainly a weaker oil price helps It would also help if the pound didn't go down as well But certainly the the rise that we've seen in Brent crude prices in the subsequent fall From the dune peaks has helped soften the blow when it comes to Higher fuel prices though not not that you'd know it if you looked at the price of the pump right now, which um means that ultimately The the government needs to look at potentially cutting duty on Petrol prices even further to alleviate the cost of living crisis For ordinary people, but this 200 day moving average And the support from those previous lows is a key barrier to further oil losses But certainly oil can go lower. But the reason for oil going lower Um will be a negative one it will because the global economy is going into recession Amid spheres of demand destruction Um more broadly so, you know, even oil going lower is probably not going to be the most positive thing Um in terms of the global economy, but what's the alternative? prices up 140 150 which ultimately will do the same thing in any case so That that's essentially where we are anyway, so That's I think it for this week one other thing. We've got a bank of canada rate decision. I almost forgot that on my sheet um looking at the bank looking at dollar CAD I think expectations for next week for the CAD are for another 50 basis point rate hike From the bank of canada. There's also they've also there's also a payroll report later today from From from the canadian economy and again wage growth here is likely to be the key driver for the canada jobs numbers But certainly the expectation is having seen the bank of canada go by 50 basis points at its most recent rate meeting We could well see them go by 50 again though If the Fed is going to go by 75, maybe the bank of canada could do 75 next week So that's certainly worth bearing in mind But certainly we'll get 50 next week from the bank of canada outside chance We could get 75 basis points as it looks to front run the Fed ahead of its july decision okay, so That's pretty much it For this week once again. Thank you very much for listening. Um, this is michael hueson talking to you from CMC markets


Hello everyone and welcome back to another episode of Jurassic World The Game The longest running series on the history of YouTube That's probably not right but it's definitely in the top 10 I feel I'd be very surprised if there is someone making a series that's been going since 2014-15 I think it was, well it must have been 2015 right, must have been 15, not 14 came out just before the movie came out so we're talking you know I mean it's 2024 now I'm assuming when I'm making this video it's actually New Year's Eve when I'm recording it but I'm assuming that we could say that's five six that's nine years nine years before we know what we'll be celebrating it's 10 year anniversary that's crazy it's at school now it's at school definitely now So let's have a look what have we got in store so luckily in Jurassic World The Live, Jurassic World The Game, Ludio and Jam City it'd be very generous they've given us some good prizes some good Christmas presents and stuff and they gave me that they seemed to flip flop I don't know what goes through their head when they decide to give me the season pass or the you know the VIP pass and then they don't know the seasons but luckily they gave me one for Christmas so that's good um so no don't get dyno we've got lots to fuse but this guy has been in here for ages and finally I put it in accidentally we have a Toro level 21 to 30 what's the difference where you just get stinkier they look at that look at the glow there you go a level 30 Toro 975 with a 914 attack and one more level and it'll get even more cool glowy all right and I will have a quick check and gain some books just like other conatoruses Toro weighs 4800 pounds this is approximately the same size as a fully grown rhinoceros wow you know for something that's way bigger than a rhino rhino is a chunky man I think we forget about that oh would win an elephant or a or a conatoris probably an elephant let's be honest we just step on it and crush anyway anyway uh yes so the new VIP thing I have in here is the styrocosis I think it might be lost looks because in just a while the live styrocosis looks was a special hoody doodaw so I have as you can see 8,980 oh and I haven't clicked it I haven't clicked it so let's go go beep beep beep beep and doodle that's the best bit let's be honest that's the best bit about these um but we do have some other things to do so win a battle without swapping a dinosaur that's 500 uh complete age we're gonna can't do that can't do the gyrosphere um purchase 30 tickets hatch centezoics pvp 20 times and open so many packs so what I will do is just win some battles without swapping um oh also fingers crossed I'm gonna you know I don't think I have in Montessot unlocked actually if you're looking for dinosaurs we go to herbivores scroll down and Montessot are you there oh maybe I do have you and Montessot yes I do are you unlocked though can I buy another one no okay so this tournament must unlock it yeah so this is right we need to get this because I think it unlocks it because it's a tournament creature so I don't know how I have one I might have bought in some sort of trade so we definitely need to do this one so we can get level 40 um and Montessot is kind of a boring dinosaur not gonna lie we also have some of these battles so we've got the combat countdown you know we'll do this one because it's like oh any dinosaur um I mean as long as it does 255 damage and it's not a herbivore we good so we'll just put Ictheos stager in and just instantly kill these guys no swaps we just do two of these we'll also win the pack and then we'll get the styrox or looks because the styrox or looks I've got my four instant hatches so of course we're gonna do that dear so has everyone had a good Christmas new year all the other holidays around about the same sort of time kind of represent the same sort of thing I don't know I'm naive celebrate all the holiday uh right let's just scroll down we'll quickly click we'll quickly kill Colombo with a patchy seratops level 21 why don't I have this thing at level 30 well we're gonna feed it after this watch me forget patchy seratops patchy seratops we will feed patchy seratops patchy seratops patchy seratops quickly finish these guys off maybe with the last battle it'll be a bunch of different things oh as you know i'm wearing a lovely wintery jumper normally i'm in a hoodie because you know if it's cold zip up it's hot take it off it's just cold now so we just need something we can't zip down uh oh it's a three year interesting interesting uh well we could have anything really even if you want we could have the giga notosaurus gen 2 yeah go on then let's have you let's throw you in here level 40 did i even put this in a thumbnail i don't think i did the giga notosaurus gen 2 it is a freaking horn on its head looks so cool we i mean we definitely leveled it up i do not remember putting it in a thumbnail um but really we're going to be doing this styrocosis hopefully we can get we should be get a level 20 we should be get oh my god oh oh sorry i apologize my english is um exponentially getting worse as time goes on yeah look at it looks so cool that's a little horn it's like a giant seratosaurus and we'll do one final one aha okay so i don't know indoraptor current team you need no i i do not need more than one my dear this is indoraptor in this game in drossin world alive it's kind of terrible but in this one it's quite good oh no granlong no did like so much damage evil 6000 damage and finally colombo oh and again honestly if we can just get a rotation of different arenas that would be so nice ludia jam city i don't know which overlord i should be praying to i've got multiple deities now raptor jesus being one of them jam city jam city why jam like like you like jam is it was was that i would love to do in city just right it's a combat car and we could get some good in here let's see uh we didn't but we do get the guaranteed box and dna which is good another giganotosaurus crazy that we got gen two which is you know dominions and then the normal giganotosaurus so that should have done the five hundo boom another reward and close close close uh so i think what at 9 000 points we are past the normal rewards i think the max is about 1600 so we're on to the next bit where because we are vip exclusive or you know the better one vip plus we're gonna get rewards each stage if you're not you get rewards like every 500 or something ridiculous it's a big big difference or every thousand um so are you ready are you ready guys we're gonna go straight through we're gonna get ready and one two three four five six seven nine ten nine two three 14 15 and actually we're not oh it's 10 000 to get the next guaranteed uh we're close we're close uh another 520 points and boom we would have another styrocosis it is called styrocosis looks okay so do we get anything that's quite interesting here uh oh yeah i've got to look at the top as well oh i've been spoiled i've always i'm used to looking at the bottom so have you got any other guaranteed or chances because if there's a chance to get one oh glowing spines is that guaranteed it's five percent chance oh oh oh what do we think five percent that's a really low percent but let's go glowing spines as survey says uh well you know what it's a silver it's a stegosaurus it could be a lot worse it could be a rare or a common okay so that's oh and that's the only we do have a biosin fountain oh that's cool i want to get that you give me that i want to place that one down and anything at the bottom there's a glowing spines no i tell you what i'll take the apparatus or because i have that for the trade harbors um anything else interesting a plot the plot of course no uh glowing spines oh you got parasol gen two in here what an instant hatch for it oh this goes all the way to 20 000 oh my god okay so one two three uh four so you've got a guaranteed five if you get the grand premium five i i honestly feel like if you do the grand premium you should be able to guarantee a level 40 because you can't get these you don't unlock them i don't know that that that's my two cents anyway you know if you're spending money on this you should be able to get that so let's hatch because when we hatch a astiracosaurus we get a guaranteed uh mission i think yeah look at you you've come so far look at that one of many dinosaurs they've done reverse they've came from Jurassic World Live rather than coming from this game to Jurassic World Live uh so let's feed you at level 10 483 health and 300 attack oh herbivore that has a good uh like attack ratio in comparison to itself interesting it exhibits bioluminescence a natural glow in the dark well maybe uh evo 40 it does but right now it doesn't uh we'll quickly just get that get some extra stuff we're getting close to a million dna again of course that's a gradual thing it's going to take time uh so we do that we should have got this mission another 200 takes us to our next reward we need to get 10 000 in order to get that though so boom so close so close how how much longer do we have on this we've 19 days so we've got a few 25 creatures we're going to have a level 20 astiracosaurus and of course we've got all these extra missions as well as these guys like weekly of course we've got at least another two to three weeks uh no two weeks of refreshed weekly rewards uh we'll do the lottery as well oh god i am zoomed in oh lottery uh i mean is it good i usually just do these anyway i don't think they're really worth it but for 10 sure why not um is there anything else oh patchy seratops almost forgot there but no i'm not that uh yeah stupid maybe just a little oh yeah we have don't know i forgot about that um right patchy seratops you will be a hybrid i've definitely passed you you're gonna be around here i spy with my little eye something that begins why you know alphabetical what's this mean like what does this mean i'm so confused if i do that there's you okay okay why is patchy oh no there it is haha oh we have we have a oh i'll get the level 30 sure we also have a level 20 so we'll get that so level 30 it has 1075 health and 454 attack almost on par with a level 10 astiracosaurus looks we'll also claim that to get some extra free books like the nozuto seratops the patchy seratops has the same signature neck frill its back is also heavily armored with fused plates where it has the same neck frill as a nozuto seratops i don't know if you've seen a nozuto seratops in a long time but that definitely does not uh oh tell you what i got one of those co 19s the other day for 500 dna i was like oh i got it and it was 700 i perfected it so i was quite pleased with myself there so i mean the only thing really left to do is just to try and do the amount of so we've got any other good packs to get before they expire is a question oh yeah also every time we do we've got this which eventually you know you can fight for the mastodon a guaranteed as well as 500 books and that is good too uh we've got three battles of this oh lord uh that is super tough what about hybrids rare oh i think i think we might be able to do this can it kill it can kill us in one hit that's good all we need to do is just one massive amount of attacks with corner after and we can do this we'll also have a look to see what the infinite pack is as well so i will switch out we'll bring in our own at level 20 due to i was hoping uh it can't kill me in two so that would be good if it oh there you go so one good because our attack is now 500 we kill it in maybe three we didn't wow okay if it went for two block wouldn't have done it there so super easy that's good we'll take the 50 dna for that hybrids rare what's next ooh a little bit tougher a little bit tougher um wait how many battles are these oh god they're five i do not have that many things um i think those two can do it wait i need three oh i need to enter three okay we'll sort that let's do the passage infinite oh that's good that's good okay mainly carnivals there is a herbivore there which poses a little bit of a threat but we got the level 40 chroma spiners then entering the top 10 but we need amphibians and i still don't have any good amphibians up here i'm missing one i don't even know there should be carnival carnival herbivore carnival flyer carnival carnival herb where are there must be one i'm not i don't have leveled up yet um we'll add indo raptor sure actually no one not because it'll die in one hit we need to make sure we have just enough to survive and then your ah it's you know there's no point in me putting in a thing here an amphibian because against the centosaurus the centa sin centaurosaurus there we go i i do try to pronounce them right um it there's no point this has no advantage so 5000 then we just go for some health tanks i think a full team look at this though it looks so cool it's so nice to see them in this light then the visitor center which is 99.9 percent of every other battle you're doing the game oh it didn't even kill me perfect okay okay oh should i put the utoranus in second maybe i should have you know what i'm really curious as to whether people still play this or they just use my my like they watched these videos and go yes i don't need to play the game you're doing it for me because i think there's probably a big chunk of my audience watch this for nostalgic reasons rather than anything else it takes you oh what am i doing i'm getting ahead of myself i'm doing some cheeky attacks for no reason so bring you back to a nicer time an easier time when you were in school you didn't have anything to worry about except for i don't know playing fortnite and and not losing badly so you didn't get picked on at school the next day i remember those times although it wasn't fortnite it was halo gears of war for me uh i'll call of duty i swear i played called of duty like once and i impressed my friends because i don't know how i did it i joined one game got a helicopter within two seconds i think it was like a five to ten kill streak i don't even know how i managed it but it it happened uh and then i just i was like oh sweet they were like what you got a helicopter already and then i never played it again i think it was a flu i'm not saying i was good i think it was a flu so i think it went for an all-out attack here so just in case okay that's good because then some towers uh attack goes down i do have a lot it also has a lot of health though oh i'm a bit worried i'm gonna go for three block here and two reserve because i yeah i thought it might have went for six yes okay so two four six might be just under enough to kill me oh god please don't kill me i knew it yes now it's martin with the might of six attacks numb numb i love its color though it's a blue jay no now it's dead it's a blue dead yes i remember when i did my top 10 and new toranus was oh is it is it the new thing it was now yeah i was like it would be number one but it's not officially released yet so i'm not putting it in was that 40 000 bucks which is ridiculous oh the next one's a good one okay is there anything that we or like if it's use herbivores use carnivores or something like that it's easy to like go through them 15 snow would is easy as well not as easy unless you have a battle event that is only used senezok which is but very rarely that happens it maybe it's a whiteout probably that one but i don't like doing the pvps we have no events with vip what's happening like not even one i haven't even done any i'm pretty sure i haven't done any of this just a time where you got vip get nothing for it sweet cool uh so we have really been modest source and again i think i don't know why i was i think i was in i just cracked over to silver league so i'm assuming i'm back into the survivor league i think silver's hunter hunter league but again the tournaments when it comes to this game are just so grindy it is ridiculous um and again they're all in a situation where i hate to look at it it's all so dark it was one of the last battle arenas i think added um and they've just decided that we're not going to change it we're going to have every battle in this arena where everything's dark it's dimly lit and you know it i hate it i hate it it's one of the reasons why i i despise doing the tournaments because one it's boring because it's the same thing over and over again and two it's easy when you know this um like what i'm doing putting two really weak creatures just so you can kind of when you win you can get as many cups as you can just put in the weakest thing um and also it just didn't really sucks like that the three main reasons i had a dream actually i was saying three and i kept on doing four i was like three three and then i was doing like two and one i was like three it's just a weird dream i remember that now i completely forgot about until i did three right there uh very interesting i remember you know you have because you think you know what you're doing and then it was just like no but i know oh dear anyway we have one styrocosis hoping we'd have two with the amount of points that i got given or i'd saved up there but apparently not but in a couple of days uh from this we should have the oh yeah also you can't speed up because the game tries to make you believe you're fighting against real people that would be a godsend if i could just have speed up with the tournaments honestly in real time i could probably save an hour and that hour could i could actually use it's so ridiculous i hate it oh we got another ko 19 oh so 25 that's good and we're back into hunter league just just in a hunt me so yeah if you don't have or you have lots of creatures that's the best way to carbon sandwich between a really good creature that can probably one-shot things and you'll be fine but if you've watched my videos for a long time you probably know that to be the strategy so let's have a look we've got a kindre saw here giving us 305 shouldn't be too hard to do i like how my ipad's burning up like all right yeah i had to concentrate down and then this one it should have one of the fast tracks at the bottom for the final click i think this was a tough one i always thought that the one that has you do two of the speed trackers at the bottom we have to click the timer ones they're the hardest but actually no the one i did that was 700 dna i got for didn't even have that okay and the final one will be one click away this was 305 oh my god oh no oh i knew it i knew it that's a harder one uh the one that was a 700 only had one at the very end so do we have a pet creatures i think i've already done that yet i never get these boss dna it's always something that you know if i played this game if it was back in 2015 16 i would do all emissions you know we do everything but now nowadays i like to focus on um other sorts of content we do a lot of the island or try to we do a lot of pathetines other games that take a lot of time to record a lot of time to edit so i don't really have time to just spend hours and hours just grinding at all which is why sometimes i miss uh the love of soul gen two is in here twice and i missed it twice uh not for lack of trying i just don't have time um and maybe i think ludia and gem city need to focus on things that you know aren't as grindy because people don't have time you know i go on to pokemon go i spend 10 to 15 minutes just doing all my dailies and having fun and then leaving it whereas this is like no no you want to do all your dailies give us hours of your time don't have hours so uh yeah i think i think that's why if anything this game needs to rethink and rejigger a little bit to make things faster and more enjoyable um because there's so much to do but anyway guys we're gonna wrap it up here not a super long one we saw styrocosaurus looks we're hoping to get level 20 but we're gonna hopefully get a modosaurus and then do all the missions to get as high a level styrocosaur looks as possible but if you enjoyed the video leave a like and until next time i'll see you cuties later oh bye