Receipt
“But when you film something showing that you're not faking it, but that's a lie, I don't like that. And I don't think you want to be lied to either.”
Jacobra, at 3:44 of “Jacobra faked his guitar playing and got CAUGHT” on Jacobra’s channel.
Around it
- 3:19 I hope not, because I'm a fairly average guitar player. Do you think my intent with this video was to showcase how good of a guitar player I am? Or was it to promote my band's music?
- 3:33 And I really don't think that there's anything wrong with editing your playing and miming along to it. I really don't think there's anything wrong with that. That's kind of a standard of today.
- 3:44 But when you film something showing that you're not faking it, but that's a lie, I don't like that. And I don't think you want to be lied to either.
- 3:55 Really, he's tricking people into believing that he's better at guitar than he actually is. And by using a perfect studio recorded backtrack,
- 4:09 it makes him seem like he's unreasonably perfect. If his intent is just to get people to listen to his music,
In the paper
- The Creator Desk, week ending 23 October 2026