Originally Posted by
Dan Druff
I don't need to watch it.
I lived it for years. Except I was never dumb enough to fall for any of it.
I watched others get tricked, and many foolishly ignored me when I warned them that the "hot chick" they were talking to was likely a gay dude getting his rocks off to their dick pics.
Usually the cross-gender catfishing involves males pretending to be females (gays do it to talk to straight males, straights do it to talk to lesbians). But when it's a female pretending to be male, I noticed an interesting phenomenon. If a guy wants to use a fake pic, he will almost always choose a guy who is muscular/athletic. But when it's a girl pretending to be a guy, she will usually choose to be the "cute" guy, rather than the super-ripped one. This is especially true when straight chicks pretend to be guys (usually to fish for info or whatever).
Guys are usually really bad at being chicks online because they lack subtlety. You can smell the aggression and raw sexual desperation from 8000 miles away.
The oddest catfish I ran into were females who were catfishing as "prettier" girls, but then I saw the actual pic of the girl behind the account, and she was prettier than her fake picture. Low self-esteem thing or something, but I saw it happen more than once.