As if dating wasn’t already hard enough on its own, a problem we’ve seen increase a lot over the past decade concerns the possibility that your prospective date simply isn’t who they say they are.
Of course, we know this common form of deception as catfishing and the more sophisticated that the technology we use to communicate with each other gets, the easier it is to pull off.
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And since this practice doesn’t exactly inspire confidence that we’ll be safe with the people who engage in it, modern romantics have had to develop a keen eye for details in their dates’ profile pictures that simply don’t add up.
But while some should have been obvious to the catfish in question, one woman’s story shows how quickly one subtle discrepancy can unravel the whole ruse.
Be advised that the video featured in this article contains explicit language
On January 30, an Ontario woman named Jocelyn uploaded a TikTok revealing how she figured out that something was amiss with her Bumble date.
After matching with him and considering him good-looking, she messaged him and made a point not to share too many details about herself due to past bad experiences.
And when he suggested getting dinner with her, she agreed as she wanted to meet in person as soon as possible to better determine whether she would actually like him.
But once Jocelyn gave this person her number, she soon noticed something unusual about his texts.
Namely, that the bubbles his messages appeared in were green, indicating that he was an Android user.
Since the person he presented himself as was wearing an Apple Watch — which Apple has stated that you need an iPhone 6 or later to use — his use of an Android phone came off as suspicious.
And those suspicions were confirmed when Jocelyn ran the photos on the man’s Bumble profile through Google’s reverse image search.
As she put it, “And what do we have here? An Instagram model from New York!”
Considering that this person was presenting himself as a Canadian man named Myles and not a New Yorker named Ron, that gave Jocelyn all the evidence she needed that he was a catfish.
Fortunately for Jocelyn, she hadn’t invested a great deal of time into talking with “Myles,” but saw this an opportunity to remind everyone how many catfishes are out there.
In her words, “Stay woke, ladies. Stay alert. Catfishes everywhere.”
Unfortunately for anyone looking for a satisfying reveal that she found him out, that’s not quite how things worked out.
As she shared in a follow-up video, she was ready to confront him with a screenshot of the model’s Instagram account after his next text, but that text never came.
Since his Bumble account was banned after her TikTok gained traction, there’s a chance that he either saw it or simply knew that he had been reported and that any of his dates were potentially onto him.
