Hey, I'm Candice Limb.

And I'm Kate Lindsay.

And you're listening to I see Y.

I'm I.

In case you missed it.

Slate's podcast about internet culture.

And Candace, at long last, you just made your writing debut on Oneslate.com.

Mm-hmm, that's right.

I was really inspired by your knitting piece.

Once again, congratulations, and I said, I have to get my hands in this pot.

Yes.

That's right. I was really inspired to write a piece. It's called Catfish taught me how to be a journalist. And it's basically about this show on MTV that just got canceled after nine seasons, 12 years. First off, Kate,

do you even know what the show is? Have you heard of it? Oh, you know, I think anyone who was growing up online during a certain era has certainly heard of catfish. I feel like it was one of the

first times we really saw the internet appearing on our TVs and it was like, oh, how crazy is this? But I mean, I was busy living on God's Internet. I did not watch this show. I think for many reasons, the main one being I didn't want all the teachers and parents telling me, oh, you don't know who you're talking to online, to be vindicated. Like I wanted to keep talking to my friends online. So, yeah, I never watched catfish. But I feel like defining show, even though I never watched it. Yeah, the way that chefs watch the bear, you watch catfish, which is you don't, it's triggering. Too close to home.

It's too triggering for me.

Look, I'm not surprised the show got canceled because this is a show about using, like, internet search tools to find out if you're being scammed.

And, you know, when it first came out, very useful.

The thing is, you watch two episodes.

You can use the same tools yourself.

So I'm just not surprised that at some point it had to go away.

However, I will miss it.

I will mourn it.

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