Dating : How often does someone on OLD “catfish” you?
I’m a 26-year old cishet woman and I date men. There have been two times where I found someone I met online didn’t quite look like their photos, but it was usually because of the angles and the fact that one guy didn’t smile with his teeth. However, men often tell me that I look exactly like my photos. It’s happened a number of times and I’m wondering how often does this happen?
Nobody fucking even cares dude
Happened once a long time ago. We were only talking for a month or so. Never met and it was all online. Came to find out she was sending pics of some other girl
I had someone (still have no idea if it was actually a guy or a girl but ill just keep referring to this person as she for convenience) pose as this girl on tinder, we matched, we chatted, I got her number and we texted and sexted, then out of the blue she ghosted me. Few months later we match again and she tries to initiate the same thing we did last time but when I said I was skeptical given the fact that she would refuse to meet, call or even send a voice note just to confirm I wasn’t being cat phished she immediately unmatched me
Sometimes people use really outdated photos (no, you don’t look the same as you did 10 years ago, even if you think you do), but I’ve never felt like someone catfished me. It’s always been obviously the same person. But I also talk for awhile before meeting up with someone usually so the fake people probably get filtered out.
I think this is something that is massively overblown in terms of frequency. It does happen, not denying that at all, but I don’t think it’s as common as the media suggests.