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As soon as Nev and Max get into the car Max hits the nail on the head by saying, “Alyx must have something equally big to hide. I don’t think anyone would just, without skipping a beat, accept as big of a lie as the one she told.” EXACTLY. Nev is just caught up in the romance of the whole thing. He’d like to write a poem.
This next segment is brought to you by Google Image Search. The guys discover that Alyx only has 10 friends on Facebook, which is, of course, a red flag. Even hermits have at least 100 Facebook friends. Also, Alyx is doing an internship at Century Media Records, so Max calls them for a reference. Wouldn’t you know it? They’ve never heard of Alyx. Google Image Search to the rescue. Alyx’s pictures match with a guy named Chris who DOES actually live in Switzerland. Nev is devastated. He says this is the one time he actually wanted this person to be legitimate. Geez, Nev. How do you think that makes all of your past suckers feel? Sunny wanted Jamison to be legitimate. Jasmine wanted Mike to be, too. And what about Scorpio? Had you no hope for him? Anyway, Chris has 500 friends, tagged photos, and comments on those photos. His profile is real. “Alyx” has no tagged photos or comments. Next question! Who is Alyx? Somehow I don’t think Google Image Search can tell us. The guys are out of ideas, so they go back to their hotel to sleep on it.
The next day Nev runs a phone number search through the Yellow Pages online. He has Alyx’s number from Kya.
“I’m still hoping this one can end in marriage.”
They find a blog with the tag @beneathskylines, which reminds them of Alyx’s name from Vampire Freaks, Burning Skylines. The blog they’ve found is basically a suicide note, inviting people to call Alyx’s phone number if they want to say goodbye. Okay, so not only do these catfish people have to live in some kind of makeshift shelter, they also have to be (or have been) on the verge of suicide. These are severely at-risk people we’re dealing with here. Wouldn’t you want to be in a relationship with one of them? Well, as luck would have it, this suicide note includes an actual name, which the guys pull up on Facebook, where the profile is not set to private. And guess what. It’s a girl. Named Dani. This is eerily reminiscent of Chelsea, aka Jamison.
“Just waiting for your phone calls before I leave this cruel world.”
You know, this is the first time Nev’s made any effort to find out who the catfish ACTUALLY is. He usually just goes back and tells the (willing) victim that their online love has been lying. Then the big revelation is in person. I wonder why they dug so deep this time. Anyway, Dani – not Alyx – is a woman, but identifies as a man, making him/her transgendered. Well, that shouldn’t be a problem since Kya’s pansexual, right? We’ll see if she’s also pan-honesty.
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Hmm. I’m late to the Catfish party and I’ve only watched a couple of episodes of this ultra-smarmy freakshow.
But something’s been bothering me since I watched the movie and I wonder if anyone has addressed this in the recaps (sorry, haven’t had to time to read them all):
What’s the deal with this Nev guy? Has it become common for heterosexual guys to get tramp stamped on their lower back? Why (in the movie at least) did he spend so much time lying on a bed being lovingly filmed with his shirt off?
In other words, I had the feeling he wasn’t the only one being lied to in his online flirtmance. Eh-hem.
So has he come out yet on the show?
Oh yeah, another thing. I remember back when AOL was brand-new. What was surprising was that practically EVERYONE in the chat rooms back then was hot, youngish and female. Weird, huh?
I’m wondering if this was an example of one of the happy endings Nev referred to. Scary.
i’ll admit that the only reason i’m watching this show anymore is because i have a massive crush on nev. i just think he’s so adorable. i can’t tell if his optimism is all an act, but he keeps it up so readily, it seems genuine most of the time. i can’t help wanting to nom on a guy that acts like a puppy dog.
mtv is just sad nowadays, though. i’m guessing that at least half of every episode is staged/fake a la breaking amish. they just pay everyone off so highly that they don’t go blabbing, plus who really cares enough to research sad sacks that are getting fooled by fake facebook profiles?
oh & i feel really sorry for these plus-size girls that feel like they have to fake it just to get someone to ‘love’ them. i’ve been internetting for 20 years now & i’ve been fat for all of them & i’ve never used a fake photo. i’ve also never had much of a problem finding dates, on the internet or otherwise. and if i meet someone i like enough to want to meet them in person, i take it to real time as quickly as possible. that dark haired girl from a few weeks ago made me really sad because she was not bad-looking at all really, just heavy, and she had no self-esteem whatsoever. and why would you want someone that’s attracted to thin girls if you’re heavy anyway? not that they have to join chubby chasers anonymous (fetishizing fat pisses me off almost more than condemning it does lately), but that’s such a backwards way of trying to find a boyfriend … you’re never going to FORCE someone to be attracted to you, it either happens or it doesn’t. that’s the part that confuses me the most.
That was the weirdest fucking thing I’ve ever seen, but I suppose it’s as healthy a relationship as any to come from VampireFreaks.com.
The most disturbing thing to me is that when they met Dani, they completely ignored the whole online suicide note. She wrote a “goodbye cruel world” letter/blog and no one says a word? Whaaa? Plus, I could’ve sworn it said “the girl I like won’t talk to me”. Well, we all know he talks to Kya daily, so who is he talking about, hmmm?
I had a feeling of foreshadowing when Kya said Alyx was pan-sexual and that she had dated girls herself in the past. If it works for them, great. There truly is someone for everyone. But, someone needs to address Dani’s obvious mental health issues. It was a suicide note, for crying out loud, Nev! Quit pooping out sunshine and rainbows and visions of being the best man at a couple’s wedding and help the poor guy out with some therapy. MTV has Dr. Drouche on staff, right? Maybe a sit-down is in order here, to make sure Dani doesn’t, you know, KILL HIMSELF!
I wonder too why Dani didn’t just hit up a site where other people are transgendered or transgendered friendly. I mean, they must exist. You can haz anything on the interwebz!
I’m sure Nev is a nice guy, but he goes way over the top. I think he has to be kind, optimistic, impartial, when dealing with these people because he is dealing with very fragile personalities. The last thing he wants is to see is anyone kill themselves or commit violent revenge.
Even the beginning when he says he is ‘friends’ with Angela, his Catfish, is doubtful. He has stated in interviews that she continued to try and keep up the charade of Meghan, even after they met in person, so he had to cut her off. So I highly doubt the two have any real type of friendship. Maybe the meaning of friend has changed since the advent of Facebook, or at least in Nev’s reality.
Kind of hope Angela is getting some sort of cut in this show considering she started the whole thing and her husband coined the term Catfish.
That doesn’t matter anymore, KJN. The Friendship Patrol and their BFF photo fix everything! And the world of psychology collapses into itself.
Siiiiiiiiiiiiigggggghhh…so here we have our “happy ending” episode. A happy ending with yet again an emotionally disturbed person involved. Really? Seriously?? The suicide issue is NOT addressed? Again, big sigh. I give up. I make no attempt to watch this show anymore. But you can bet I troll regularly for the recaps! Thanks so much for putting up with this show! I just can’t, if I even try I will end up emotionally disturbed myself.
So of course I checked out Vampire Freaks immediatley….i was disappointed to see no vampires and no freaks. Its like a janky Friendster.
I thought Dani was adorable….but I must have missed the suicide thing. Hmmmm. i hope things work out with them, but hes I am also concerned for the emotional stability of 100% of the people on this show. that includes Nev. haha.
Also….Mexico Missouri? WTF?
Oh I forgot to mention….hilarious recap, HG! Very funny and spot-on
WONDERFUL recap!! I read as my students are taking their final, and found myself having several “coughing” fits!!
Sooo… “Alyx” is from Switzerland and just recently relocated to California, yet doesn’t sound remotely European on the phone.
Mhm.
Hmm. Now that I’ve been reading around a bit about this whole “Catfish” thing, it seems pretty clear that it’s all been faked from the get-go (well, not the sad-sack Angela bit, but the part where CLEARLY GAY Nev falls for any of it). No wonder the guy’s always wearing a guilty smile.
Turns out this creep (and his brother) are just spoiled rotten rich bullies who believe they can get away with anything.
Oh well. I feel so…. so … used.
1. Did she just flat iron that one piece of hair or did she actually flat iron all her hair so that it would look that way?
2. I love that Nev said that she looked great. So nice.
3. I’m with you HG. I don’t need anyone in my life who has lied about EVERYTHING for 8 months.
Yes Classy, HG and Cherry B you all have self-esteem and confidence. Unfortunately, as we have seen over and over and over again, this country is filled with no self-esteem no confidence individuals who thrive on any kind of attention thrown their way. I shed a tear for humanity.
With this episode we crossed a line with the ignored suicide blog. Well I searched beneathskylines and her twitter feed pops up – but the page is down. It’s also the name of a punk band. Which came first? “I’m not a self-help book, I’m just a fucked up kid.” Is all I can see. Maybe you shouldn’t be entering into on-line relationships if you are so fucked up.
Pro-tip – Dani, post haste it up to SF, we just agreed to pay for transgender surgeries because socialists love to give away other peoples money.
Oh and her initials are DIC – coincidence she is a confused girl?
Is the red hair dye an international symbol for vampire lovers?
@itchy: I don’t think Nev is gay, kind if hipster-y, but not gay. I feel like if he was, he would be openly gay. I do think parts of the doc were staged but for filming reasons. Like I think he was duped for a while and realized it when they weren’t filming it. He’s tech savvy, but he fell into the mentality that these people get where they’ll ignore the fact that it could totes be fake because they want it to be real so badly.
This episode though! I did not see this one coming. I’ll own up to going on VampireFreaks when I was younger (I had a thing for guys with teen angst and facial piercings). I never made a profile because I didn’t dress like those people and talking to people on the Internet that I didn’t know irl freaked me out. That was like 9 years ago though, so who knows what that site’s turned into.
And does anyone think Max is getting kind of fed up with these people? Lol he’s always making that face at everybody.
Yeah, what about the suicide?! I thought the “happy ending” was going to be Thelma and Louise style!
So, Itchy is surfing these waters now, eh?! How long before he finds a way to blame this all on Christians?
kjn, when they read that note i figured it was from a few years ago. nonetheless, dani did seem genuinely starry-eyed when he met kyla.
pinktop, when i was a freshman in high school, i knew a boy that had lived in germany his whole life up until that point & he had no accent whatsoever. his dad was the german language teacher, so he was legit. it can happen. especially if they travel back to america to visit a parent, like he did to see his mom. i’m not saying it might not raise a red flag, but it is possible.
labowner, i completely agree with you, but it still baffles me. i haven’t always been a fabulous fatty – but i still never felt much of a desire to completely fabricate a whole other reality down to the most minute detail AND act it out. maybe because i myself was catfish’ed (but not nearly to the level of insanity that this series is at) when i was 20? but even before that, it never even crossed my mind.
Heh, no worries, I’m pretty sure this douchebag isn’t christian.
Here’s my take on the ‘documentary’: Nev (and his brother and friend) knew from the very start that the whole Abby/Angela/Megan thing was a fake. But because they’re spoiled rich bully types, they decided to play along with it and have fun filming it.
No doubt they also figured out very quickly that they were dealing with a very lonely, very depressed person who was using facebook as an escape from her horribly sad life. Because it is simply not possible and absolutely unbelievable that none of the three thought to google this person early on — it took all of what, two minutes to see through Angela’s lie? And NONE of them thought to do this before? Right. Sure.
But, again because they’re a bunch of douchebag bullies, they encouraged her to go deeper and deeper into this. And they decided to film it as a laugh — and ultimately make a documentary out of it. I can only imagine who had the bright idea — bet it was their father’s suggestion, because he’d become sick of his sons sponging off of him.
And of course they had to stage a meeting with this terribly sad woman in order to provide a climax to the documentary. And barely hide their mirth and disgust at this woman and her life. And then have the nerve to present this bullshit as a ‘true’ story — suckering even more gullible people into believing any of it.
I enjoyed the documentary though, because I love a good freak story. But the lie was pretty obvious from the start (since this Nev character is a shitty actor). And especially when I saw that tramp stamp — there is no way in hell a straight man would have a roadsign to his asshole tattooed on his back. No way. Uh uh. Would never happen.
But yeah, I started getting pissed off at this asshat — I guess the television series and all his fake empathy (and his inability to hide his glee at embarrassing this collection of sadsacks too) put me over the line. He’s a clear bully and he’s profiting off the misery and stupidity of others. I just hate people like that.
Oh yes, according to one report, he was kicked out of Sarah Lawrence (where his rich parents are trustees, which is how he got in) because he punched a (female) student in the face. I’m sure there’s plenty of more dirt on him out there. It’d be fun if someone made a documentary about HIM.
Itchy, I totally agree with you about Catfish The Movie. I think the bro’s saw an opportunity immedialtey to make the situation into a movie, and went for it. The lonely chick in Michigan ended up looking the fool.
Well, well, well…I was thinking this show was probably fake but I didn’t realize how fake. If that stuff about Nev is true, it gives me a whole different perspective to what he is doing here. Bully, indeed.
How come everyone on this show lives in the middle of no where? And in houses with many many doors? Every time Nev and company show up at a house half the battle seems to be finding the right door to knock on. And don’t these people know they are coming over? They always seem so off guard and unprepared.
omg NEV. i find him really likable and sweet but every show, I want to take him by the shoulders, shake him hard and say “These people, these “relationships” are. Not. Healthy. Stop encouraging it!” Not that they shouldn’t find love, as everyone deserves to, but maybe some therapy first. Like I feel like all these online trysts are a crutch preventing them from actually finding a real, fulfilling commitment in the real world. “But we text everyday!!!” Not the same by a long shot.
star trek/star wars comment…spot on. as always great work.
Oh HoneyG,
Thanks for taking this bullet for us. I love the recaps, but could never watch.
Also love the Star Trek/Star Wars analogy. Must remember for future reference
Fab recap, as always!
Actually, it’s very possible this Angela person was in on the scam from the very start – as were the people in the photographs she used. And the film had been in production long before the supposed ‘facebook romance’ began (one of the handicapped guys had died before the romance even supposedly began).
Another fun fact: Cod are saltwater fish and Catfish are freshwater fish. They could never inhabit the same tank!
In this light, I gotta give credit to these people for constructing all of this. It’s kind of masterful. Makes me revise my contempt for this Nev fellow (character?) a bit too — looks like he’s really just playing a role after all.
I’m from Mexico, MO lol. Funny to see how fake parts of that show are. None of the public places they meet are in Mexico, MO. Even their hotel, they went out of town to stay and say its in Mexico lol. Anyways, I went to school with Kya, she’s the exact same person that was portrayed on the show, so that wasn’t fake.
“Quit pooping out sunshine and rainbows…”
Yeah, that’s my job!
This show is sad, but I love your recaps!
Haha! That really IS your job! And with a unicorn, yet! Nev would be sooo jealous…
So, Itchy, is safe to say that you only use religion against Christians?!
Who’s talking about religion here? No one’s been babbling prayers on this show, thankfully. Even if they’re all a bunch of hypocritical idiots.
And for the record, I could give a shit what anyone pretends to believe in private. Go do a rain dance and pray to the moon god, if that’s your thing. It’s when religious types of any sort start infecting reality shows that I start getting pissy. It’s bad enough religion has corrupted our politics. But reality television is sacred ground. They should all lay the fuck off.
It just so happens most of the people prosyletizing on television these days call themselves christians. Not my fault if certain forms of christianity appear to breed more loudmouth inanity than other religions. I’ll be just as pissed when the muslims take over the country – and our reality tv.
But when I say it’s pretty clear that this Nev guy isn’t christian it’s because he’s an Upper West Side Jew. Or at least he was born that way. Not sure what his rabbi would say about that tramp stamp of his.
Really? C’mon, this is one of the FEW shows I enjoy watching, reading and commenting on because there is an absence of instigation and holier-than-thou attitudes.
Sigh. I really do promise not all people in the history field are pompous blowhards.
Hmm. People here used to have a bit of a sense of humor. And they weren’t so quick with the ad hominem insults. Oh well.
I dont care if you’re a man or a woman either, but I do care about the truth. That’s like the KEY component in a relationship, how can they dismiss it just like that???
I had a horrible experience with a long distance relationship which started online, being decieved was what ended our relationship after 4 years. If someone lied to me UP FRONT that would be a deal breaker for sure!
My gf just got me into this show. We have watched the last 3 episodes on demand and this is the one we are watching now…
Nev seriously needs to shave that sweater off his chest. He might be cuter if that was gone. He seems more therapist like then anything. But from what you guys are saying I can’t take anything seriously from these two anymore…
Now that gf has gotten me onto this show, I am going to keep watching and I am going to go back and read all the recaps!