MOS95B t1_iy864n9 wrote
I saw this on the news, and it made me feel really old. Sitting there wonder "WTF is catfishing?"
The only time I've ever used that word was when we were actually fishing for catfish. Now it's being used to describe a crime on the news.
Kaitensatsuma t1_iy88j6i wrote
I guess it's simultaneously new and old - It's been a thing for about a decade, but it's pretending to be someone you aren't online - usually a guy pretending to be a younger (attractive) girl either to troll other guys or to trick girls/women - but other permutations exist.
It has something to do with Catfish allegedly having been shipped with live Cod, which apparently wasn't even a thing.
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