Ever meet someone over the Internet? Ever heard someone who has say something like this: “We’ve been dating for two years, one problem, we haven’t met yet”?

Today, social media and other digital platforms makes it easy to stalk find “that special person”. Although we hear about real life couples who have met on dating sites, the most common resolution to an online relationship is that the two parties never meet.

Because one of them happens to be fake.

For those of you who have not yet been shocked by the trailer above, here’s some context.

Catfish – A person who has created a false online identity.

Getting Catfished– Enjoying an emotionally-committed online relationship with a catfish.

Catfish go as far as producing complex back stories, years of pictures, online profiles, emails, phone numbers, and various other proofs of life.

Film maker Yaniv Shulman was Catfished once upon a time, and the experience inspired him to create a reality TV show around the topic, going to extraordinary lengths to expose Catfish.

[Source: MTV.com, Indiewire]