“In music videos, we all know it’s just miming. But social media videos? That is extreme dishonesty”: We asked what constitutes “fake” guitar playing – here’s what you had to say

A man is filmed by his iPhone playing an electric guitar.

It's not necessarily new, but in recent months, the topic of “fake” guitar playing has gotten particularly hot.

Polish acoustic guitar virtuoso Marcin and the ever-versatile Ichika Nito – both mega-stars in the guitar social media sphere – have in recent months both been prominently accused of being so-called “fake”s, with the accusers pointing to instances of what they say is audio manipulation, in the form of additional layers of playing, in playthrough videos that they say are designed to look like the work of one guitar at one time.