About Guitar Tabloid

Guitar Tabloid is a weekly comic newspaper about guitar YouTube. Each week we go through every new video from the channels we follow and cover the week the way a red-top would: the headlines, the feuds, the grievances and the gossip.

How it's made

Every video is transcribed and scored minute by minute by a system we built and tuned against hundreds of hand-labelled clips. That's how the stories get picked. AI drafts the pieces, and then I rewrite, cut and check every one before it goes out. Yes, the whole staff is me.

Every quote is checked against the video it comes from, and a week with a quote that can't be checked doesn't publish. Each footnote links to the second it was said, so you can hear it for yourself.

At the foot of a week is a link to how it was made: the videos it was written from, the ones it cites, and what the editor (still me) did.

The small print

It's satire. The jokes are ours; the quotes are theirs. Guitar Tabloid isn't affiliated with or endorsed by YouTube or any of the creators it covers.

When we get it wrong

When a story turns out to be wrong, we put it right and list the correction at the foot of its week, with the date.

Got something wrong, or want something taken down? Write to hello@guitartabloid.com.

Letters

Write to the same address about anything in the paper. The best letters are printed, and may be cut to fit.