4:09 pm - 11/14/2012

The first episode of Catfish: The TV Show, focuses on Sunny, a young woman who’s in an online relationship with a male model in L.A. … who also works at Chelsea Lately and writes for the show … and also writes cue cards? What an overachiever! In truth, as most viewers probably guessed from the premise of the show, this wonderful, magical Skype-allergic RJ guy is actually an 18 year-old girl named Chelsea who started the account as a means of revenge against someone who bullied her on Facebook. The lie started to consume her because she felt like an outcast in real life, and her online model persona afforded her the means to make easy connections with other girls online as she explored her bisexuality. And that’s where the show truly manages to surpass its cinematic source material.
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Anyone ever been in an online relationship and found out that everything the other person told them was a lie?
(Not me. An interesting lesbian online dating horror story.)
MTV’s ‘Catfish’ TV Show Succeeds Where The Film Failed

Sometimes a TV show really can be better than the film from whence it came.
In 2010, Nev Shulman debuted his documentary, Catfish, which followed his journey to meet the girl he fell in love with on Facebook. Despite the marketing campaign for the film, which positioned it as some horror flick with a dangerous or paranormal twist, Shulman’s journey (SPOILER ALERT!) ended in a farmhouse with a middle-aged mother and wife who’d been creating false Facebook personas to stave off her own loneliness and boredom. It was an unexpected twist, for sure, but where audiences were expecting pure, radical shock and awe, we found our surprise coupled with something truly, deeply sad: a person whose life was so unlike the life they wanted that they felt the need to create another. When translated into a television show with a premise based up front on that emotional concept, the product is something that feels as if it has the momentum to move the discovery forward, instead of wallowing in the shock of the 180-degree turnaround. The first episode of Catfish: The TV Show, focuses on Sunny, a young woman who’s in an online relationship with a male model in L.A. … who also works at Chelsea Lately and writes for the show … and also writes cue cards? What an overachiever! In truth, as most viewers probably guessed from the premise of the show, this wonderful, magical Skype-allergic RJ guy is actually an 18 year-old girl named Chelsea who started the account as a means of revenge against someone who bullied her on Facebook. The lie started to consume her because she felt like an outcast in real life, and her online model persona afforded her the means to make easy connections with other girls online as she explored her bisexuality. And that’s where the show truly manages to surpass its cinematic source material.
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Anyone ever been in an online relationship and found out that everything the other person told them was a lie?
(Not me. An interesting lesbian online dating horror story.)
I also just had to take a screenshot of this one, I was rolling: http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdhpy
the earring sells the picture
And last nights episode was awesome
Can't wait for the rest of the season
"Well, we've made it this far.. why not?"
Seriously? GTFO with that moral of the story lesson. She accused her of being a lesbian half the time just before & threw it around like some kind of insult. Whatev.
The model at the end was QT, though. You know Sunny is gonna leave her "new boyfriend" for that routine Friday chat he joked about.
I am here for some friggin "Cheaters" style throw downs.
I want to see things lit on fire!
oh oops
I used to troll online all the time, and yeah, at 16 i'd have fake personas and shit. But not fake "relationships", never anything leaving the computer (no text/phone calls/etc). That's ridiculous. Sunny is naive is fuck for falling for it (and lol @ her sister's jealousy) and chubster is pathetic for doing it for 8 months.
IDK why she even gave out her address like id just stop answering the phone if she said she was coming...
Well...I get a phone call from my close friend saying "I don't think he's what he says he is". This is after her and this guy have basically entered a long distance relationship. So, through our investigative ~skillz~ we realize all of this photos of him are taken from someone else. Some of the photos don't match up to others, some are obviously photoshopped. So, it turns out that the "guy" is a girl. She does live in Canada, but she made a lot of shit up and led people on for years. It kind of devastated the group of friends (I wasn't really friends with most of them at this point). Some of the people have tried to maintain a relationship with her, but others were so disgusted that they've cut all contact with her.
Looking back, it's CRAZY the way shit went down. I'm omitting a ton of details in case anyone who was involved with it reads this... but the situation is so much like "Catfish" in so many ways.
She was a pathological liar.
idk whether they lied to me or not... except for the last one, because we're FB friends now and apparently some random story he told me once was a lie and he felt like an ass that I believed it(HE SHOULD)... but I ain't mad. We talk sometimes and we're fake-facebook-engaged and joke about said fake engagement randomly.
and then there was that whole thing with my guild leader in WoW pretending to be a girl for a year but we weren't in any sort of online romantic relationship. It's been over a month and I'm finally not having to remind myself that he isn't a redheaded 20 something year old girl that loves bunnies when we talk. (He's a black haired 30 year old guy that loves bunnies)... although I was paranoid as fuck for quite a while after he told me the truth because well for all I know all of THAT is a lie too. But his 'actual' facebook has way more idk details and personal things than the fake one ever did.
Also I've never been in a relationship with someone I've met online but I've made a really good friend from Omegle and my favorite youtuber met her BF from Omegle.
My longest convo on record has got to be under 10 seconds.
I had a friend that met his ex-gf on chat roulette or omegle idk which one. The one with webcams?
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I'm still trying to figure out why she didn't just google him properly, though.