| 1 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/68158.jpg]] |
| 2 | ->''"And there are those people who are [[TitleDrop catfish]] in life. And they keep you on your toes. They keep you guessing, they keep you thinking, they keep you fresh. "'' |
| 3 | -->-- '''Vince Pierce''', Abby's father. |
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| 5 | Yaniv 'Nev' Schulman is a photographer living with his brother Ariel 'Rel' Schulman and Rel's filmmaking partner, Henry Joost. After one of Nev's photos is featured in a newspaper, he is sent a painting of his photo by 8 year old Abby. [[ChildProdigy Abby is eloquent and gifted for her age]] and she and Nev begin talking, first through letters then through Website/{{Facebook}}. At this point Ariel and Henry begin recording this relationship hoping to create a {{Documentary}} about Abby. Eventually Nev's correspondence extends to include Abby's family, including her mother Angela and her half-sister Megan. As Nev and Megan begin to develop a relationship, Nev, Ariel, and Henry decide to expand the documentary to be about NewMedia relationships, especially the budding romance between Nev and Megan. |
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| 7 | MTV turned the film into a [[Series/CatfishTheTVShow series]], in which Nev helps people meet their "catfish" - people using online personas, real, faked, or otherwise. |
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| 9 | !!Catfish provides examples of: |
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| 11 | * {{Catfishing}}: It is the TropeNamer ''and'' provides the page quote as [[spoiler:Abby and Megan aren't real.]] |
| 12 | * ChildProdigy: Abby [[spoiler: although not really.]] |
| 13 | * DatingServiceDisaster: The series mostly deals with people who are being "catfished" by potential or current romantic interests. In extreme cases people have 10 year relationships with people they've never met. |
| 14 | * DefeatMeansFriendship: [[spoiler:Bizarrely enough, the person behind "Megan" and Nev became friends.]] |
| 15 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler: Ariel's incredulity at "Angela's" photo, Nev's claims of Megan's LarynxDissonance.]] |
| 16 | * {{Mockumentary}}: Has been accused of actually being this and not a real documentary. |
| 17 | * LogoJoke: The familiar Universal Studios globe intro is downgraded to a virtual map of the earth being dragged by a computer mouse. |
| 18 | * NewMediaAreEvil: [[spoiler: The implication of the movie. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] if it's real.]] |
| 19 | * PersonAsVerb: "Catfishing" has entered the slang lexicon. Its definition: to create a completely fictitious life online, with or without deceitful intentions, especially when the life is of a member of the opposite sex. |
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