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Have you ever been catfished?
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Yea and it was a mind trip. They were hotter than the pics hey were cat fishing with, but I still don't understand why they did it.
Ahh this happened to me as well. Got catfished by a girl that used one pic of someone who has the same look. She ended up being hotter in person. She ended up using the pic because she wanted to be discreet.
That kind of annoys me too I need to adjust the level of effort I'm going to put a head of time.
Yes I was catfished for a good amount of years. I caught on after a longer while but I kept going along with it to see where it leads because I never felt she had any malicious intend and she also never exploited me. Eventually I confronted her and broke up with her, she admitted everything and now we're good friends. Honestly after she explained her reasoning I was still mad but I felt there was still enough to her to keep a friendship.
The times it happened it was so awkward when we met up. I still hung out with them but I did not call back. The difference is so jarring.
Yeah, and I found out after a whole year and a half of talking. Fucked me up real good for a minute.
I did. Was talking to this attractive 20-year-old on PoF. After about a few hours she admits she isn't the woman in the photos but her friend and it's her friends old account. I ask for photos of her. Even more attractive. Lasted a bit. Good times.
Back when PlayStation Home was a thing, myself and 3 other friends all made pretty female avatars and ran around pretending to be actual girls that were into the whole experience. There were a ton of dudes who totally bought our stories and would want to asl ect. like a chat room sorta situation. We'd dance emote with them and then swap over to the most hideous male avatars we could possibly make. You were able to just change skins like that on the fly so it was hilarious to see a bunch of guys dancing will the girls that suddenly switch to horror movie monster men. It was a riot for a couple hours one night .
*blinks* Now that's a name I haven't read in a long, long time... (Talking roughly 18-20 years here) I guess this faker/troll has been around, huh.
Yes; they were prominent on TeamXbox, then moved to a now defunct splinter forum I created when TXB was sold to IGN (WeCraveGames.)
Eventually i suspected them, and proved them a fraud.
It was an incredibly tangled web; I found at TXB at least 3 alts, all would talk to each other. "Brianna" is just some guy in Puerto Rico but all of his online personas were gamer girls. I eventually found that he had an online web comic of gamer girls in a rock band, and I realized his online personas were tied to the "characters" he created in his comic gamer girl band.
I had discovered in my searches that they were semi-outed on another forum years early (like 2000 or so); but not REALLY. What actually happened there was an admin accused them of having alts, but the forum actually stood behind "Brianna" and accused the admin of stalking. Some closed forum that didn't allow posts but still had an archive.
Claiming "she" had cancer was part of his shtick too; that's what they used to get sympathy on the one forum they were outed on.
Get fooled by one MySpace angle; never trust them again.
::Edit:: oh dear god lol, Reddit termed that getting "fatfished"
::Edit:: oh dear god lol, Reddit termed that getting "fatfished"
I've had people use my pictures for their fake accounts before. At least one of them we're pretty sure was an ex boyfriend of mine, just trying to stir up trouble and make me look bad. The others, I have no idea.
When I was 13 I'm almost 100 percent certain I was catfished by a man pretending to be a boy my age.
Is it wrong to purposely catfish someone back if they catfish you? Asking for a catfished person.
No but I've been "fat fished" plenty of times. Girls using pictures from 8 years ago when they were good looking. Always ask if the pictures are current, never trust looks by face shots only, run away if their pics are nothing but snap chat filtered.
I mean what was he really expecting? "Yeah ok, sure thing buddy"??
Yeah. While the term isn't nice, "fat fishing"/misleading/deceptive angles has been something I've fell into before.
There was a girl from my Highschool that created a fake brother on Facebook and would occasionally interact with herself as her fake brother.
It was weird.
Recently someone from my job tried to catfish me thru Instagram, almost played along but since I have a girlfriend didn't seen wise.
I am multiple people on Moomguard. Nowadays I roleplay as a pale bald gnome named "Houndingeyes" and I sit upon the chandelier in Lion's Pride Inn.
The worst that I have experienced is a bit misleading images, or using older photos on their dating profile. Nothing bad enough to be considered impersonating someone else.
I think I was. Was texting this really hot girl I meet off OkCupid for a week before I realized she was not who she said she was. Never met her in person though but all the clues were there
Not really....but there was a girl that I went out with that was super girly in her pics, but when I met, she had the build of Kevin Durant :(
She was super cool, but NOT MY TYPE. I ghosted her after the date, because it's hard to tell someone "you look like a basketball player" after having gone on an otherwise pretty cool date.
She was super cool, but NOT MY TYPE. I ghosted her after the date, because it's hard to tell someone "you look like a basketball player" after having gone on an otherwise pretty cool date.
If you're going to be late then admit you'll be late m. I would never make someone, especially in the first date, wait 30+ minutes to go anywhere.
Your girl doesn't respect other people's time. Just because that isn't a dealbreaker to you, doesn't mean it isn't a dealbreaker to others.
Personally, I would have just left the minute I saw the dad. I don't trust anyone who lies over things that can be easily discovered.
I've only been caught by the Myspace angles. Although my ex wife does try to catfish me sometimes.
I found someone was catfishing me before they actually catfished me, so yeah, I guess? It wasn't even a couple of pounds, but like a picture from college years. Embarassing.
My teen years were peak MSN, yahoo, AIM messenger years so yeah, I've done it (usually to do some petty detective shit) and been a victim of it. Nothing really crazy or long term though. I've heard stories people playing the act for years. Never made sense to me since even then technology was well advanced to call someone out on it.
A while ago, back when online dating was just starting, I was catfished by a woman. She looked absolutely nothing like her pic. Zero resemblance, whatsoever, aside from maybe the eye colors matching. When we went out, she changed the vast majority of her stories and things she told me prior. I went on a few dates with her, to try to give it a shot, but in the end I couldn't put up with it.
Thanks a lot, Hot-or-Not.com.
Thanks a lot, Hot-or-Not.com.
Supposedly back in highschool someone me and my friends knew was using fake MLP accounts to catfish people on facebook.
I'm not sure I believe it because the person who told us was just full of bullshit all the time, and a notorious liar about some things.
At the same time the supposed catfisher guy got into trouble for stealing from his parents to buy MLP stuff and actually had MLP "sex accounts" Were they pretended to be the characters ans contacted people with them, so we knew he was the sort of person who would do it.
I'm not sure I believe it because the person who told us was just full of bullshit all the time, and a notorious liar about some things.
At the same time the supposed catfisher guy got into trouble for stealing from his parents to buy MLP stuff and actually had MLP "sex accounts" Were they pretended to be the characters ans contacted people with them, so we knew he was the sort of person who would do it.
There are some super lazy ones I've spotted (like, literally a different person in each photo, or photos of actual famous people), but generally if I get that vibe I disengage entirely. It's a little wild to see people talking about catfishing on Facebook though, do these people just start adding random people and go from there?
Someone catfished as me once, it was super bizarre. I messaged this girl on Craigslist with some pics of mine and she accused me of being a catfish as she's currently talking to someone who sent her my pics. She was really rude and clearly upset but I didn't mind it and pressed her about the other guy using my pics.
I sent her some more pics to prove it was me and she started talking about the other guy how he's so fucked up to her and says so many horrible things to her. She eventually confronted him about it and he called her a bunch of things before disappearing.
She reached out to me a couple days later and was like "so I guess you were telling the truth, sorry I didn't believe you, here's some pics of me if you're interested in talking."
Unfortunately she was not my type at all so I didn't bother responding. At the end of the day I was mostly shocked by the fact that someone would even use my photos. I'm by no means a stud, there's plenty of other much better looking people to catfish!
I sent her some more pics to prove it was me and she started talking about the other guy how he's so fucked up to her and says so many horrible things to her. She eventually confronted him about it and he called her a bunch of things before disappearing.
She reached out to me a couple days later and was like "so I guess you were telling the truth, sorry I didn't believe you, here's some pics of me if you're interested in talking."
Unfortunately she was not my type at all so I didn't bother responding. At the end of the day I was mostly shocked by the fact that someone would even use my photos. I'm by no means a stud, there's plenty of other much better looking people to catfish!
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Using photos that don't accurately represent who you are today are a big no for online dating.
Ditto. Tho it was likely way over 50lbs. Her pics were her but unknown how old they were.
Still, I gave it a chance. Worst date ever. She ordered a lot of food yet ate little and trashed the rest (I paid). Covered my eyes when boobs were displayed during "Get Him to the Greek". Really?! (Also, terrible & terribly long movie). Chatted a bit afterwards, she was just a very ugly person on the inside, throwing plenty of stones at passing women in her glass house. I ended the date nicely then preceded to delete her number from my phone on the walk back to my car.
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