How to Spot a Catfish (the male fantasy version)

How to Spot a Catfish (the male fantasy version)

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How to Spot a Catfish (the male fantasy version)

People, due to popular demand, I have pulled together some further insights as to how to identify a catfish, both on this site, and elsewhere.

If it looks too good to be true, it IS too good to be true

Guys (for it is mainly guys who seem to fall for this), if a 'girl' user on this site posts selfies of herself without her face showing in a thong bikini, then it ISN'T really a girl.

Have you ever noticed that a LOT of real girls on this website complain about hassle from male users, based on their profile photos? I bet you have. So why, why, WHY would a real girl go out of her way on here, of all places, to solicit this? She'd do it on Instagram, where there's a chance she can actually make some money out of it...

How to Spot a Catfish (the male fantasy version)

If it seems like an older man's fantasy of what he WISHES real teen / twenties girls were like, then it probably is an older man behind the whole thing

Especially if he uses profile pics that he knows can't be found online, either because he's taken them from a 1993 edition of Penthouse, or from a VHS porn video still from something that was so crap, it's never been transferred to DVD.

And if his 'character' talks the way that no real girl has talked since the 1860s, then that's a dead giveaway, too. It tells you he hasn't got a clue what a real girl in that demographic talks like, because... he NEVER interacts socially with them. So he makes them talk like Scarlett O'Hara because that's what he'd like the porntastic dream babe he's created to sound like - Oh MY!

How to Spot a Catfish (the male fantasy version)

If there's some reason your 'friend', who is just SO forward with what 'she' posts online, won't Skype with you, well, then, isn't that a dead giveaway?

Especially if she's already told you girls how sweet you are, and that she's bisexual, but these days she's more interested in girls, surely she'd want to get to know you better, right?

How to Spot a Catfish (the male fantasy version)

If the story doesn't hang together properly, then that's generally because - it's NOT true...

Such as the person concerned having a busy social life, hanging out with 'boys', shooting guns, having multiple sexual partners AND managing to hold down a job at the same time? Even if it is with 'Daddy's' mysterious company?

And that's not to mention the fact that they seem to be always available on G@G, no matter what time of day it is...

THEY AREN'T REAL, GANG. DON'T PLAY THEIR GAMES...

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  • I’ve never been catfished.

  • Only been catfished once, years ago when I was new to online dating, and this was before it blew up. Very easy to spot one these days.

  • loll yesss 👏 can't get over the vhs porn and 1860s part. so funny 😂😂 amazing mytake. when will they learn?

  • I don't do online dating/hookup/whatever, so I never worry about it.

  • Unfortunately, people won't listen anyway.

  • I've been labeled all kinds of things on this site is sickening. The love of many shall grow cold...

  • Trust me you don't need to inform me in how to catch a catfish.

    *takes out harpoon gun*

    • Thank you, Mr SF - you are SO sweet!

  • Good post. Just go with your gut when looking at photos.

  • You’re a good person

  • People can be fooled for a couple reasons. First, it's usually straight horny guys wishing their pretty pics and stories are real. Even if these guys are intelligent, they let their member think for them.

    However, young women seem to be completely oblivious to these accounts, albeit for a much different reason. I chalk that up to inexperience in identifying male behavior and interests -- and the fact that many of these girls wish they could be that forward and open.

    • I e had no women talk about trading lingerie pics But they posted posts so it made it doubtful. But I’m not sure bc one popped up the same time as a guy and they both seemed to message at the same time.. I thought it could be one person. She disappeared though. Not sure if that makes it more or less likely.🤷‍♀️

  • If a pretty woman ever actually messaged me, I'd know it was fake.

    I'm in the bottom 10%, not the top. lol

    How to Spot a Catfish (the male fantasy version)
  • Are all of your Mytakes about catfishes?

  • I got catfished by a girl who looked like a black supermodel. Turned out she was a black supermodel.

  • So are guys pretending to be girls on here and getting other guys to jack off to them? As long as no one is asking me for money, I couldn't care less what someone pretends to be.

  • Get a fishing pole and fish for them lol

  • l know nothing about a cat fish tell me

  • unless they're a trans gender and or identify as a female in their own gender identity

    • of course most will disagree