Tobias Funke said:
ea1060 said:
The one part that made me call BS was when Teo said in the documentary that during that time cat fishing wasn't a thing. The popular documentary "Catfish" came out in 2010 and the tv show came out in November of 2012. I remember at the time that everyone was talking about catfish and how crazy it was.
Teo's online relationship was around 2010-210. I have a hard time believing he had never heard of the term catfish during that time.
In the doc, he actually said "it was 2009. Catfishing wasn't a term yet." So I'll give him a little credit there
Per the timeline, they "met" on facebook around 2009, and they talked off and on for a while. Their relationship intensified in October 2011, until her "death" in September 2012. He said that after he talked to his uncle about their relationship, that was the first time he ever heard the term catfish. That convo with his uncle would have happened around December2012-January of 2013. The Catfish show premiered on MTV in November-2012, and EVERYONE was talking about it before and after it premiered.
I still have a hard time believing he had never heard of the catfish term before, but he did seem really sheltered and I could see his parents enforcing a no tv policy or something lol.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/timeline-manti-teo-girlfriend-hoax-story/story?id=18268647