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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(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 guess they never talked on the phone either because the minute Nev made that call I knew there was NO POSSIBLE WAY anyone could think that voice belonged to those pics.
Max said it best when he said it sounded like a 14yr old who still had braces.
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The voice also sounds dead inside, which would have been an auto-turn off anyways. Jeez.
fucking gross.
We had so many lying bitches throughout internet fandoms all these years, we never got played that hard thankfully. Since we totally googled the shit out of everyone most of the time when they had outrageous claims.
I had to talk my mom through Catfish, it was a crazy adventure. She was in shock and awe and disgust all at once. It fed into her irrational hate for the internet, needless to say. "Have you ever."
I used to lie to old pervs in Yahoo Chats when I was 17, I won't even pretend otherwise.
Edited at 2012-11-14 10:46 pm (UTC)
Lie in what way?
I was this little virgin chubby 17 year old just like "yeah sure, let's do this."
I never had relationships with anyone, that "dragging it out" shit blows my mind, I have too much of a conscious.
A. LOT.
this episode was ok, maybe next one will be better.
Internet fandom, circa 2004ish? We had this girl who totally did snow us, fake pictures and all that. She used her cousins pics, etc. We found out she's a fake and all that, bye bitch, right?
A while later, someone stumbles upon her REAL Myspace (LOL RIGHT) only not laughing because it turns out she DIED.
The internet folks, it's fucking weird and I feel like I've been here too long. Shit.
Otherwise most people FAKED their deaths on the MBs because they wanted sick attention, etc. Faked accidents so that other members they were ~*dating~* would love them more? IDK. A lot of girls pretending to be boys but we usually fished those out fast "oh you're a dude, in a Good Charlotte fandom? You're going to need to show some fucking receipts."
I looked one screen name up that I remembered years later and saw that the bastard was still pretending to be 16. That's some life he had going on there.
skyping was definitely the fastest way to be like oh hey you're exactly what i thought you would be like lmao. it's weird because even though i've never met them i still feel like it's completely normal and natural because there's nothing weird about them and our friendship really just feels like a long distance friendship
It went on for a while. I even did it on multiple accounts. They had to make a bulletin about not leaving yourself logged in to protect the forum. They thought it was seriously a security concern.
'twas my first trolling. Didnt find out til years later that there was a phrase for what I did
I had a friend who had some dude pester the shit out of her for months it felt like over getting a second date, trying to guilt her and say all that "BUT IM A NICE GUY, WHY DONT YOU WANT TO DATE A NICE GUY LIKE ME" D:
last guy i met online was just a few months ago, super awesome guy, we have so much in common and talk a lot but now he's in a relationship.
been thinking about trying guys online elsewehre (both were on chatrooms and facebook) but idk what would be an online tool where people seriously interested in relationships hang out...in germany lol
I genuinely think I could get over fake photos. Depending on how far the truth was stretched ofc. idk idk. I've never found myself in a long-term relationship like that.
it's human nature to want to change ur personality to be more likable but photos is just straight up lying and you'd have to make a conscious effort.
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Then I found out through another mutual friend of ours that this guy was in fact a girl (I guess she got drunk and admitted it to our friend). That was shocking obviously and I was pissed because I'd been lied to for many many years, but I felt so close to this person I was like, "whatever, I can get over it." Then I kept finding out all these little things she'd told me over the years were lies. She kept apologizing when something new came out and I tried to keep the friendship going for as long as I could, but we ended up just growing apart.
I don't think she was doing to be malicious or anything, I think she'd just invented this identity for fun and didn't realize she'd be making actual friends, and then it just got complicated and she didn't know how to tell the truth. At least that's what I tell myself to make myself feel better about it.
then randomly he cut off all of his internet friends including me with no real explanation ( i guess we wanted to focus on "real life" or w/e)
anyways 2 years later and he died in a car accident :( :(
and i know he was legit and that its real and its so depressing.
he was a member here as well :-\
I think a lot of girls pretend to be guys to get attention from the girls on certain fandoms. Then they realize they really like the people, etc. Then they're stuck in their false persona, ick ick ick.
The internet an unbelievable thing. Sometimes the idea of trying to be someone else can seem really fun and appealing. But if you happen to make an actual connection with someone while lying, then things quickly and easily get out of hand. People get in too deep, shit like that.
I've been on both sides of it, tbh. Oh, life. It can seriously be so complicated and the anonymity of the internet is a powerful thing.
he was a serious babe tho, i woulda hit that if we had actually met