When Did You Realize You Were Being CATFISHED?

Am I the Genius?

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🗓️ 22 September 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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0:00.0	When did you realize you were being catfished?
0:04.0	My ex-girlfriend tried catfishing me to test me.
0:07.0	It took me about 30 seconds of looking through the profile
0:10.0	before I realized that the name was her name backwards.
0:13.0	The craziest thing is that she really thought it would work.
0:16.0	That girl was bonkers.
0:18.0	About six years ago, I found out my brother was a catfish. He'd been catfishing this
0:23.2	young man in the UK whilst being in America. He had fake pictures, a fake name, but his real phone
0:28.7	number. The guy being catfished, we'll call him Lenny, would repeatedly call my brother and leave
0:34.4	messages on our house phone. My brother and Lenny often sent each other
0:37.9	packages of sweets. Lenny made the decision to come to America to visit since he's never been.
0:43.4	And my brother agreed. On the day Lenny arrived in Texas, my brother told him the truth, but never
0:48.7	actually met up with Lenny. Lenny tried all week trying to convince my brother to meet him,
0:53.5	telling him that he just wanted to know who he really was. My brother never showed up. Lenny tried all week trying to convince my brother to meet him, telling him that he just wanted
0:54.4	to know who he really was.
0:56.3	My brother never showed up.
0:58.0	Lenny called religiously every day for about a month trying to get my brother back.
1:02.1	I think he really loved him.
1:03.8	After that, I never heard from him again.
1:06.8	In my sophomore year of college, my friend Kerry, a 19-year-old guy, met a girl named Kelly in a chat room.
1:13.3	They talked a lot and got close.
1:15.6	One day, Kelly revealed that her boyfriend broke her jaw.
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