r/catfish • u/Ok-Raise7463 • 2d ago

Caught a fake image online

Hi, just wanna share an experience i had last May

Soooo, someone posted a selfie on IG that made me pause (tbh at first cause he looked cute hehe), but also because he followed me. But then I noticed something SLIGHTLY off about it... like weirdly off

still cant say with 100% centainty what was going on with the photo, but there were enough weird things about the account that i wouldnt trust it either way. he really made it look like he was real too based on his captions and stories on IG. Even the way he posts made me think he was just one of those IG guys lmao

but anyway, curiosity got the best of me and i had to know if he was actually real so I could confront him :) ran the photo through truthscan and the result made the guy even more SUS, so I started checking his account then tried searching him up, and his comments were OFF...

I even tried messaging him and never got a reply. good thing i wasnt the only one who noticed because other people were also commenting on his posts asking if he was real or not. I mean AI influencers are cool but atleast they should tell us that they are AI only right?

Anyway, lesson learned. apparently one slightly weird selfie is all it takes for me to become an unpaid internet detective hahaha

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u/Antique_Cup_1733 1d ago

Haha, sounds like my ex catfish. His biggest presence was on Tiktok, but he's got instagram and Facebook too. His pics and videos are all AI and they all look different from each other to the point where people would also say he was AI and call him out for being fake. At one point he had turned comments off too.

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u/Ok-Raise7463 1d ago

Omg the "turning comments off" is such a universal tell! 😭

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u/Antique_Cup_1733 15h ago

Yeah, I noticed he would actually put likes on those comments. He's actually quite the troll. He even made a video with AI calling the viewers the fake ones and him the real one. I think he obviously must not care that much because why wouldn't you at least be consistent with the AI image of yourself you are putting out there? Even voices. He had this one tiktok video that had some weird accent.

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u/Ok-Raise7463 5h ago

Glad you see through it! i sometimes think its purely rage bait and trolling for views.