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Why do people catfish?
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Ok, lets cam Betty!.... just for see if yiou are real ..
Just ask around. .. my reputation precedes my need to cam
Argh, well I triedJust ask around. .. my reputation precedes my need to cam
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If you're lucky enough to find me in chat one day I'll turn my cam on. ..just for you.Argh, well I tried
Then you can tell everyone. .. I'm a real woman! And all the pix are mine!
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well in that case, I'm a 30 yr old rich divorcee from California, and I'll come pick you up for our date in my Lamborghini...
I know it probably made you a bit more cynical being Catfished, but I would honestly keep trying on the Net if I were you. Just not being so quick to get involved until you confirm.
I say that because more people are starting to go the Internet route, there's becoming less and less of a "stigma" or whatever you wanna call it. And really, it makes it a lot easier to find people who are more compatible with you, reading their profiles and chatting beats the heck out of a blind.
I've hooked up with two different hot chicks that I went to High School with, reconnecting through Facebook.
I know 3 separate smoking hot chicks, one a curly redhead, two hot blondes with killer bodies. Kinda blew my mind when I four out they all three had tried online dating.
I was like "You? Man, I would think guys would be falling all over you in real life, and you'd never have to resort to that."
But I thought about it. All 3 are super fucking cool chicks, not shallow at all. They are really smart, kinda nerdy, kinda shy and quiet, maybe a bit insecure. They're looking for something real with a good guy and one who can mentally stimulate them. They go to bars or the club scene, and usually it's the cocky "Pick Up Artists" dudes who have the courage to approach them. Maybe they were screwed over by guys who picked them up, just looking to get laid and move on.
They find it hard to meet a good guy who is compatible, because those guys are like me, and sounds like maybe you too. I am a bit of the quiet type and also find it hard meeting girls, because I'm not the type who can just walk up to a hottie and pick her up. I have to get to know them, and sometimes it's tough to find a situation in which I get to put in the time to interest and attract a girl. Online dating is great for people like us.
And I LOVE the shy, quiet good girl type who has a freaky side she keeps hidden that you gotta work to get to. The best is when you put in the gradual work, bringing out that side, getting them horny, then pulling out your big cock and seeing the freak come out.
Tinder seems like it would be a good, convenient place to try.
You definitely got a lot physically going on, to attract a chick to your profile. Totally understand if you don't wanna say, but what's your measurement? Just curious to see how I compare
well in that case, I'm a 30 yr old rich divorcee from California, and I'll come pick you up for our date in my Lamborghini...
Ill wait for you then ! *_*
(I hope ill dont have to wait too long...
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6 foot 4 1/2, bone pressed erect length at 8.25 to 8.5 inches.
Online dating has never worked for me and I'm hardly ever in situations to meet girls so the opportunity is rarely there.
Damn, 8.25, that's impressive. I'm 7".
Yeah, Online Dating also depends a lot on the area you're in. I bet somebody with your stats on Tinder in a place like New York could have a different date set up for every night of the week!
I'm currently dating somebody, would never cheat, but I would like to sign up for Tinder just to swipe and see what kinda options would be available in my area (course, thanks to the damn Catfish phenomenon, there's no way of knowing it's for real just by browsing), lol I'd also have to create a Catfish profile myself, just to browse, so nobody finds out I'm looking, that'd be a hard one to explain "No, I was just curious, I'm not REALLY looking!"
I wonder if things like Tinder encourage or even have people create fake hot profiles as some kinda BS advertising "Check out all these opportunities!" Probably not, but who knows...
Yeah, Online Dating also depends a lot on the area you're in. I bet somebody with your stats on Tinder in a place like New York could have a different date set up for every night of the week!
I'm currently dating somebody, would never cheat, but I would like to sign up for Tinder just to swipe and see what kinda options would be available in my area (course, thanks to the damn Catfish phenomenon, there's no way of knowing it's for real just by browsing), lol I'd also have to create a Catfish profile myself, just to browse, so nobody finds out I'm looking, that'd be a hard one to explain "No, I was just curious, I'm not REALLY looking!"
I wonder if things like Tinder encourage or even have people create fake hot profiles as some kinda BS advertising "Check out all these opportunities!" Probably not, but who knows...
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I tried tinder about a year ago and all of the matches that I had were all fake profiles trying to scam you. Most of them were rhe same, as they would try to get you to sign up for some pay for site to keep chatting. The area I live in is fairly small in regards to population.
I feel like instead of asking why people catfish ... we should be wondering .. why ... after catfishing has become such a well known thing .. through documentaries and the MTV show .... how are people still being catfished??? How can people not see the signs?? How naive are you?
Yeah, I'm sure most times there's some pretty glaring signs, but you can imagine a lot of these people get real elaborate, people like that woman in Talhotblonde who are obsessive about it.
Also, you gotta take into account, the people who are being Catfished, it's not that they want to be fooled, but they want to believe it so bad, they ignore or overlook a lot of the signs.
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Obviously there's many reasons but I think the top 3 are:
1. People are too ashamed or scared to be themselves. They see the internet as a place to be the person they actually wish they were in real life.
2. Shits and giggles.
3. Legit mental issues.
And what do I think? I think it's sad and pathetic and a major douche move to catfish someone.
Ps. Pretty freaking random that im actually watching catfish right now!
1. People are too ashamed or scared to be themselves. They see the internet as a place to be the person they actually wish they were in real life.
2. Shits and giggles.
3. Legit mental issues.
And what do I think? I think it's sad and pathetic and a major douche move to catfish someone.
Ps. Pretty freaking random that im actually watching catfish right now!
Ok, this is just a stupid little story, don't even know if it's worth sharing, of my personal experience as a "Catfish" in a way.
I know I am a piece of shit haha! Please don't judge me now by what I did as a preteen! I believe I truly have made up for it by this point with acts of human kindness!
Consider this my Confession.
When the Internet first started getting big, remember the AOL dial up days with AOL Instant Messenger, where you could steal like ten of those Free Month Of AOL discs from Blockbuster, and this is when people first started using email?
I was about 12, with two other friends, we liked getting into mischief, and we all three had a crazy sense of humor. Well, one day we started "Catfishing" this older hot high school chick we all thought highly of, pretending to be my friend's older cousin, popular, captain of the football team, etc. Maybe as a joke on him, but who knows, maybe we can get a pic out of it if we play our cards right!
Well, she came one day and said "Who is this? I talked to (The Cousin), and you're not him!"
Damn! Jig's up! Well, now what do we do? So, we came up with this phrase, "You've just been TRICKED.....BY THE BRAINTEASER"
And it just evolved from there, we developed this crazy Super Villain persona, The BrainTeaser, who would target all kinds of people from around town, mostly girls in high school, but also some guys, our kindergarten teacher, a strict old lady from the Church, the Preacher of the Church, the High School football coach, basically anybody we could find from AOL IM or email. The genius was, that it was such a random selection of people, there was no pattern or connection to us, and we would pester them, or fool them with all kinds of elaborate pranks basically drive them crazy, always with that sign off "You've just been TRICKED...By The BrainTeaser!!"
Alot of times, on the second go round, we'd start out with the message "Prepare To Have Your Brain.....TEASED!!!" And they'd say things like "Oh, Not you again!" Man, I can't really remember specifics, but we pulled some great pranks, sometimes even using a pay phone, using that Scream voice, one guy in particular, Chris, a real church goodie goodie with a high pitched voice, and we'd say "Hello...CHRISSS!!!" And he's say "Ah, geez! Not again!" We'd make them feel like they were being watched, using whatever information we had on the people.
Only us three knew about it. It became such a big thing, kids at school would be like "Who the hell is this MindTwister dude?" I remember one guy being like, dead serious, "I'm not gonna stop 'til I find out who this BrainTeaser is!" telling it to us three, we barely kept a straight face. It was like the big town mystery, "Who is this BrainTeaser who confounds us so?"
Well, we went too far with it, some girls started getting scared, and we started putting out little hints, planting clues as to our identity....Except it wasn't to OUR identity, it would be douchey dudes we would carefully choose for whatever reason, like this one weirdo, older guy, like 17, dating this girl our age, making sexual innuendos to her that were so creepy, he thought he was the big great Church Youth Group whatever, big kiss ass, real judgemental, one day we snuck out of the Church Lock In to go running round town, we came back and he got all up in our face and said "We don't play that shit at this Church!" As if he was some authority figure. Oh, really Mr. High Horse?
We messed around with one girl, planted some seeds, we knew she would follow the trail directly to Mr. HighHorse. Well, we found out that Monday, that he had been taken to the Principal's office and interrogated by the police with transcripts of the conversations! Then, another guy, had been a big bully to my one friend at school, he wound up getting hand cuffed by the police in the morning right in front of the school bus, to send a message! This was right around the Columbine times, so stuff was starting to get taken real serious!
That's about the time we decided The BrainTeaser had gone too far and it was time for him to take the money and disappear.
We still get a kick out of that when it's just us and have laughed about what if we just all of a sudden returned, to those same people "Prepare to have your Brain...TEASED!!" "Oh no! He's back!" Haha.
"Your puny brains are no match for the Intellectual Superiority of...The BrainTeaser!"
Ahh, Good memories of being a little shitheel!
So, that's one reason people Catfish, unfortunately. Just young, immature, bored, trying to find something to laugh about.
I know I am a piece of shit haha! Please don't judge me now by what I did as a preteen! I believe I truly have made up for it by this point with acts of human kindness!
Consider this my Confession.
When the Internet first started getting big, remember the AOL dial up days with AOL Instant Messenger, where you could steal like ten of those Free Month Of AOL discs from Blockbuster, and this is when people first started using email?
I was about 12, with two other friends, we liked getting into mischief, and we all three had a crazy sense of humor. Well, one day we started "Catfishing" this older hot high school chick we all thought highly of, pretending to be my friend's older cousin, popular, captain of the football team, etc. Maybe as a joke on him, but who knows, maybe we can get a pic out of it if we play our cards right!
Well, she came one day and said "Who is this? I talked to (The Cousin), and you're not him!"
Damn! Jig's up! Well, now what do we do? So, we came up with this phrase, "You've just been TRICKED.....BY THE BRAINTEASER"
And it just evolved from there, we developed this crazy Super Villain persona, The BrainTeaser, who would target all kinds of people from around town, mostly girls in high school, but also some guys, our kindergarten teacher, a strict old lady from the Church, the Preacher of the Church, the High School football coach, basically anybody we could find from AOL IM or email. The genius was, that it was such a random selection of people, there was no pattern or connection to us, and we would pester them, or fool them with all kinds of elaborate pranks basically drive them crazy, always with that sign off "You've just been TRICKED...By The BrainTeaser!!"
Alot of times, on the second go round, we'd start out with the message "Prepare To Have Your Brain.....TEASED!!!" And they'd say things like "Oh, Not you again!" Man, I can't really remember specifics, but we pulled some great pranks, sometimes even using a pay phone, using that Scream voice, one guy in particular, Chris, a real church goodie goodie with a high pitched voice, and we'd say "Hello...CHRISSS!!!" And he's say "Ah, geez! Not again!" We'd make them feel like they were being watched, using whatever information we had on the people.
Only us three knew about it. It became such a big thing, kids at school would be like "Who the hell is this MindTwister dude?" I remember one guy being like, dead serious, "I'm not gonna stop 'til I find out who this BrainTeaser is!" telling it to us three, we barely kept a straight face. It was like the big town mystery, "Who is this BrainTeaser who confounds us so?"
Well, we went too far with it, some girls started getting scared, and we started putting out little hints, planting clues as to our identity....Except it wasn't to OUR identity, it would be douchey dudes we would carefully choose for whatever reason, like this one weirdo, older guy, like 17, dating this girl our age, making sexual innuendos to her that were so creepy, he thought he was the big great Church Youth Group whatever, big kiss ass, real judgemental, one day we snuck out of the Church Lock In to go running round town, we came back and he got all up in our face and said "We don't play that shit at this Church!" As if he was some authority figure. Oh, really Mr. High Horse?
We messed around with one girl, planted some seeds, we knew she would follow the trail directly to Mr. HighHorse. Well, we found out that Monday, that he had been taken to the Principal's office and interrogated by the police with transcripts of the conversations! Then, another guy, had been a big bully to my one friend at school, he wound up getting hand cuffed by the police in the morning right in front of the school bus, to send a message! This was right around the Columbine times, so stuff was starting to get taken real serious!
That's about the time we decided The BrainTeaser had gone too far and it was time for him to take the money and disappear.
We still get a kick out of that when it's just us and have laughed about what if we just all of a sudden returned, to those same people "Prepare to have your Brain...TEASED!!" "Oh no! He's back!" Haha.
"Your puny brains are no match for the Intellectual Superiority of...The BrainTeaser!"
Ahh, Good memories of being a little shitheel!
So, that's one reason people Catfish, unfortunately. Just young, immature, bored, trying to find something to laugh about.
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This story had me laughing until you mentioning that the kid getting put in cuffs. You were young and really not aware of the potential consequences of what you were doing but at least you realized when it had gotten too out of hand.
When I was a senior in high school a guy that was sort of my friend did something similar on facebook, this is back in 2008 and 2009. This town wasn't necessarily a small town but had that feel because everyone there had pretty much known one another for essentially their entire lives, I moved there during the 8th grade. Anyway, the guy I mentioned had lived their his entire life, knew everyone etc and would post dirty little secrets of his "victims" on their Facebook walls, photos, posts etc. For the longest time everyone was trying to find out the identity of the Facebook troll but known of them ever did find out at the time. Most thought it was funny but some took it way too seriously and threatened to beat the guy up if they ever found out who he was. I remember he mentioned that he spoke to a few of these people on the phone and they would talk to him for hours. This is what happens when you live in a small town where nothing ever happens.
Sorry if there are any weird spelling or grammatical errors, I typed this all up using my phone.
This story had me laughing until you mentioning that the kid getting put in cuffs. You were young and really not aware of the potential consequences of what you were doing but at least you realized when it had gotten too out of hand.
When I was a senior in high school a guy that was sort of my friend did something similar on facebook, this is back in 2008 and 2009. This town wasn't necessarily a small town but had that feel because everyone there had pretty much known one another for essentially their entire lives, I moved there during the 8th grade. Anyway, the guy I mentioned had lived their his entire life, knew everyone etc and would post dirty little secrets of his "victims" on their Facebook walls, photos, posts etc. For the longest time everyone was trying to find out the identity of the Facebook troll but known of them ever did find out at the time. Most thought it was funny but some took it way too seriously and threatened to beat the guy up if they ever found out who he was. I remember he mentioned that he spoke to a few of these people on the phone and they would talk to him for hours. This is what happens when you live in a small town where nothing ever happens.
Sorry if there are any weird spelling or grammatical errors, I typed this all up using my phone.
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Do you think the show is at the very least partially scripted? I always thought it seemed to that they would take real stories and modify them to make them more dramatic and entertaining.
Yea when that happened with the cops, we were like we've gone too far.
Although it was always harmless fun, not ever any serious threats made, nothing that could get somebody in actual trouble. The cops just put on a show to put the message out that this shit was gonna stop.
I definitely think the show is a bit staged. I mean, if you're really Catfishing somebody, and Nev calls you, you're just not gonna be like "Sure, bring the cameras and show the world how weird I am!" Unless you're really starved for attention. But, you'd have to think realistically, that would happen at least 50% of the time, and that's being generous. Nev and Max don't just fly around, filming, just hoping, on the off chance that they actually catch the real Catfish and get them to come clean on camera. They have never once shown an episode, or extra scenes where they went somewhere and didn't "hook their catfish" am I right? I think they already know who the person is before N and M actually show up, no telling if the victim knows or their reactions are genuine.
The movie I felt was phony, I think too. Nev decides to video record his online romance, and tries to act all shocked and hurt when he "discovers the truth" but he's such a great and forgiving guy "We're actually real friends now!" I'm not buying it.
Although it was always harmless fun, not ever any serious threats made, nothing that could get somebody in actual trouble. The cops just put on a show to put the message out that this shit was gonna stop.
I definitely think the show is a bit staged. I mean, if you're really Catfishing somebody, and Nev calls you, you're just not gonna be like "Sure, bring the cameras and show the world how weird I am!" Unless you're really starved for attention. But, you'd have to think realistically, that would happen at least 50% of the time, and that's being generous. Nev and Max don't just fly around, filming, just hoping, on the off chance that they actually catch the real Catfish and get them to come clean on camera. They have never once shown an episode, or extra scenes where they went somewhere and didn't "hook their catfish" am I right? I think they already know who the person is before N and M actually show up, no telling if the victim knows or their reactions are genuine.
The movie I felt was phony, I think too. Nev decides to video record his online romance, and tries to act all shocked and hurt when he "discovers the truth" but he's such a great and forgiving guy "We're actually real friends now!" I'm not buying it.
