Zee Scribe
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The problem with a show like this is that it can only entertain for so long until viewers lose interest. I certainly did after the third episode. However, they are now on their sixth season. Which leads me to believe that there are people out there still following this. Who knows, maybe catfishers themselves watch to get a step ahead now that we’re onto them. Or, and I could be wrong, this is MTV playing off the naiveté of its victims. Either way, the world may never know.
Now, this past Monday night I was going through my usual routine of mindlessly scrolling through memes online when I came across a video of the most recent episode of catfish and for whatever reason decided to watch. I watched a grown ass man (clearly into other men) catfish some dude wearing a polo shirt four sizes too small for him (I didn’t realize we were still on that wave). Homeboy went under the guise of a woman named “Rosa” who looks a lot like Fetty Wap’s latest baby mama, Masika Kalysha.
‘Rosa’
So yes, if you’re into reality TV stars who are upcoming ‘rappers’ or ‘singers’ and funded by build-a-body-for-profit dot com, then I understand the allure. The one thing that made this episode stand out was that ‘Rosa’ put up this guise all on his/her own. I mean ol boy didn’t even have the decency to call up a girlfriend and have her voice the phone calls. Issa tew much for him. He opted for disguising his voice as a very convincing twenty-something year old female and rode it til the wheels came off. And off they did. It was at this point that I allowed myself to have a good laugh, and not just any laugh. I’m talking about the Pillsbury Doughboy kind of laugh that makes your cheeks warm. The kind of laugh I had in that dark movie theatre when I saw ‘Grandpa’ running towards Chris in Get Out (big-ups to Jordan Peele).
The picture of the dude sitting there in the article.
