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Sweet Bobby - My Catfish Nightmare on Netflix. SPOILERS

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WTF0 · 17/10/2024 22:53

Posting on here for traffic!

So I understand this documentary was based on a podcast so I’m sure some people may know the story already but what the actual FUCK?!

I wish I could say that I felt sorry for her but I just couldn’t. How do you manage to have a friendship and then romantic relationship with someone online for so long? The fact that her cousin was behind it all was so fucked up but I find it even more fucked up that her family just accepted her being engaged to someone online.

My thoughts are all over the place because I just don’t understand how you can be so desperate to be in a relationship with someone that common sense goes out of the window. As for the cousin, pure evil.

Has anyone else watched it yet?

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forgotmypassagain · 17/10/2024 23:07

Lentilweaver · 17/10/2024 23:02

To understand the cultural expectations. And the very small pool of eligible Sikh candidates. She wouldn't have dated a non-Sikh.
I agree she was foolish. But I can understand it.

Apologies! I can see you’ve explained here. Do you really think this was it? Or was she just a bit dim and naive?

Lentilweaver · 17/10/2024 23:07

Personally I was baffled that catfishing is apparently not a crime in the UK. ( Not checked that but that's what I gathered).

I listened to the podcast too.

forgotmypassagain · 17/10/2024 23:06

Lentilweaver · 17/10/2024 22:57

You need to be Asian to understand, IMHO.
I did feel sorry for her. And baffled by the cousins motive.

Im not Asian and I’m curious as to why I’d need to be Asian I understand this.

she was incredibly naive and gullible.

KnottedTwine · 17/10/2024 23:04

Haven’t seen it but listened to the podcast. Also agree that the motives of the catfish are a complete mystery and if I remember the family wanted it all brushed under the carpet.

Lentilweaver · 17/10/2024 23:02

To understand the cultural expectations. And the very small pool of eligible Sikh candidates. She wouldn't have dated a non-Sikh.
I agree she was foolish. But I can understand it.

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WTF0 · 17/10/2024 23:00

@Lentilweaver you need to be Asian to understand why a woman would be engaged to someone she hasn’t laid her eyes on? Okay

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Lentilweaver · 17/10/2024 22:57

You need to be Asian to understand, IMHO.
I did feel sorry for her. And baffled by the cousins motive.