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I never caught the TV show but the film was fun if not a little hard to buy because it was so over the top. I think probably the success of the show can be help

I never caught the TV show but the film was fun if not a little hard to buy because it was so over the top. I think probably the success of the show can be helped mostly on the high profile catfish of star college football player Mante Te'o. A very large audience had been first enthralled by the idea of his cancer stricken girlfriend that he was playing for. But then that same audience learned both the phrase "catfish" and the hard truth that he had been duped because that girlfriend didn't exist.[0] It was national news for awhile and broke thanks to research from Deadspin. How ABC and other outlets (ESPN,CBS,Sports Illustrated,NYPOST) didn't look up if the girl had existed before they spoke about it still blows me away. [0] http://deadspin.com/manti-teos-dead-girlfriend-the-most-heartbreaking-an-5976517 http://deadspin.com/manti-teos-dead-girlfriend-the-most-hear...

DanBC 12y ago
> the film was fun if not a little hard to buy because it was so over the top. But people who fake cancer to gain friends are over the top. Ten Year Cancer Hoax: http://gawker.com/5914621/the-long-fake-life-of-js-dirr-a-decade%20long-internet-cancer-hoax-unravels http://gawker.com/5914621/the-long-fake-life-of-js-dirr-a-de... A cancer patient who is befriended by fake cancer patients, not once, not twice, but thrice: http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/the-lying-disease/Content?oid=15337239 http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/the-lying-disease/Content... Here's a fake cancer sufferer created by a child and her friends, but abandoned by them, and then taken over by the mother: Guardian UK newspaper report: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2001/may/28/internetnews.mondaymediasection http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2001/may/28/internetnew... Wikipedia Entry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaycee_Nicole_Swenson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaycee_Nicole_Swenson The FAQ http://web.archive.org/web/20050115092141/http://www.rootnode.org/article.php?sid=26 http://web.archive.org/web/20050115092141/http://www.rootnod... on the wayback machine The metafilter investigation http://www.metafilter.com/7878/The-Kaycee-Nicole-Swensen-Faq http://www.metafilter.com/7878/The-Kaycee-Nicole-Swensen-Faq Deconstructing Kaycee http://psychcentral.com/blogs/kaycee.htm http://psychcentral.com/blogs/kaycee.htm

DanBC 12y ago

> the film was fun if not a little hard to buy because it was so over the top. But people who fake cancer to gain friends are over the top. Ten Year Cancer Hoax: http://gawker.com/5914621/the-long-fake-life-of-js-dirr-a-decade%20long-internet-cancer-hoax-unravels http://gawker.com/5914621/the-long-fake-life-of-js-dirr-a-de... A cancer patient who is befriended by fake cancer patients, not once, not twice, but thrice: http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/the-lying-disease/Content?oid=15337239 http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/the-lying-disease/Content... Here's a fake cancer sufferer created by a child and her friends, but abandoned by them, and then taken over by the mother: Guardian UK newspaper report: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2001/may/28/internetnews.mondaymediasection http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2001/may/28/internetnew... Wikipedia Entry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaycee_Nicole_Swenson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaycee_Nicole_Swenson The FAQ http://web.archive.org/web/20050115092141/http://www.rootnode.org/article.php?sid=26 http://web.archive.org/web/20050115092141/http://www.rootnod... on the wayback machine The metafilter investigation http://www.metafilter.com/7878/The-Kaycee-Nicole-Swensen-Faq http://www.metafilter.com/7878/The-Kaycee-Nicole-Swensen-Faq Deconstructing Kaycee http://psychcentral.com/blogs/kaycee.htm http://psychcentral.com/blogs/kaycee.htm