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I'm making this in here and not the lounge because it's not really about the TV show, but your experiences!
For those of you who don't know, I'm not talking about a fish with whiskers. A "Catfish" is someone who pretends to be someone they're not using the internet to create false identities, particularly to pursue deceptive online romances or friendships.
Have you ever had a personal experience with a catfish? What happened?
Are you a catfish? :shifty:
Back in the early 2000s I would often pretend I was a guy on video game forums (including some Final Fantasy ones) because why not, all I care about is guy stuff anyway. No one ever knew the wiser! :holmes:
As an aside, I have never heard of this term in this way before!
The closest I come to this are my ideas for characters I'd write from the perspective of in blogs... but it would be pretty obvious those blogs are meant to be fiction, I think.
Pretending to be something wildly different from who I really am on a forum or something just seems weird to me.
I'll use a fake name if for some reason I have to give out a name and fake country/location info if Im signing up for something that insists on a country as well as but I've never done it to get someone emotionally attached to me.
It happened to me once when I was 16. I figured it out when she showed me a picture of her more fuller-figured "friend" on more than one occasion, and asked me what I thought.
not in the romantic sense like in the catfish show but I did speak to a dude for a while who wasn't who he said he was. it wasn't a big deal because I didn't know him that well and he didn't exploit anyone or anything and his lies weren't especially huge but when he died it all came out. pretty strange situation.
Also when I was under 18 I'd click the button that asked if I was over 18 and put in birthdays that put me in my 20s when I signed up for things.
you're a badass, blackmage_nuke
When I joined here at age twelve, I lied and said I was four years older than I actually was because I thought it would help me fit in. I came out to everyone as my actual age three (I think?) years later. Some people were super nasty about it and raked me over the coals in an attempt to humiliate and belittle me, but most were super cool and accepted me and continued to be my friend. I didn't do it because I get off on trickstering people, though, which is how I view people who fit the description of "catfish". I just wanted the cool older kids to be my friend. :(
Trivia: When I approached Daniel to tell him, he thought I was about to tell him I was actually a dude.
Also, I got excited about this thread at first because I really, really love redtail catfish and think they are beautiful.
I like catfish. It hurts when they bite, though :(
Catfish is good, but has a LOT of little bones.
I lied about my age at first because I wasn't expecting to get super involved with the community and figured no one really cared about my age anyways so might as well say I'm a bit older to get taken more seriously since a forum I used to be on basically told me my opinions were invalid because of my age. But then when I started dating a member, I figured it was time to come clean. No one really cared
except my boyfriend, but we worked that out :greenie:
Never heard the term being used before. I'm not a cat fish. Never had experience with a cat fish before either.
Oh trout, they're onto me.