We Know Catfishing Is Bad, So What Is ‘Kittenfishing’ And Why Do We All Do It?
How Men Think
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🗓️ 13 June 2026
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Yes, we have a new term in the dating world and it’s called Kittenfishing. Basically, it means you tell little lies about yourself in order to appear more attractive. Whether it’s adding an inch to your height, editing your age by a couple of years or even filtering your photos, dating experts say nearly everyone is guilty of kittenfishing. It’s not malicious, like catfishing, but experts say it only makes relationships harder, because the truth always comes out in the end.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.2 | Hey, that folks. It is Saturday, June 13th, a relationship Saturday, right? |
| 0:11.4 | The day we spend so much time with the people we love, whether that's a romantic relationship |
| 0:15.2 | or our good friends. |
| 0:16.9 | But in your romantic relationships, you've heard about it before. |
| 0:21.1 | Has it ever happened to you? |
| 0:22.4 | Have you ever been catfished? |
| 0:24.7 | Well, that sounds terrible, but there's a new dating trend going on that sounds so much sweeter. |
| 0:31.8 | Kitten fishing. |
| 0:33.4 | Aw. |
| 0:34.1 | Welcome to this episode. |
| 0:35.1 | So sweet. |
| 0:35.9 | Of Amy and T.J. |
| 0:37.1 | Kitten fishing. It sounds like something we should all aspire to. Well, guess what? It sounds so sweet. Kiddenfish. It's something that the experts say we all do in different versions. I have been kitten fished and I have kitten fished somebody. Is that what we're saying? That's what we're saying. Oh, right. So apparently, this, it's, to, to make it just really |
| 0:56.2 | clear, it's the PG version of catfishing. Basically, it involves telling little lies about yourself |
| 1:01.9 | in order to make yourself appear to be more attractive. Oh, we're talking about adding an inch to your |
| 1:09.1 | height, dropping a few LBs to your weight, |
| 1:12.9 | saying that maybe you went to a prestigious university when you only took one course. |
| 1:20.6 | So the other word for this is dating. |
| 1:23.4 | Or lying. |
| 1:24.9 | Yes. |
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