- I looked him up and I found him on like a website called famous people birthdays and it told me everything about him. - Got it. - So I said. Am I missing something? Are you like internet famous or something? So then he was like, yeah. I make Vines and videos. - Is he hot? - Is he hot. - [Girl] Yeah. - [Man] We don't have an email this time. We have a message on TikTok. - TikTok? - I have a TikTok message? Whoa. - My name is Jake, I am 18. - He's cute. - Nashville, Tennessee. Basically, I met this
girl named Taylor online. She slid into my DMs. So told me she met me at my convention. But it don't remember her at all. She was really beautiful. ♪ I'm losing my view ♪ We started talking and she was just really really nice. She seemed to really care about me which I don't get a lot of
sometimes in this business. ♪ I need something to believe in ♪ But there's been a couple things that's like been really
weird about the relationship. First off, when we FaceTime. She always has a black screen. It's really weird. She told me she was
gonna come from Louisiana to like meet me and I was
really excited about it but then, she was here for like two weeks and completely ghosted me. Like drove past my house,
which was really weird and a couple weeks ago,
my friend Emily told me she was a catfish and
how I should drop her. ♪ Need something to believe in ♪ So I don't know. ♪ I need something that
can keep me holding on ♪ But I just want to know
for sure, you know? So yeah, just hit me up on Skype. It be really helpful. Thank you so much. ♪ Don't believe in ♪ - [Nev] All right, well
let's get down to business. - [Kamie] This is lovely. - Tell us how it all started with a little bit more detail 'cause we kinda skimmed
through a lot of it. - Taylor slid into my DMs on Instagram. She said she met me at a
social media convention about probably a week earlier. She was like, hey you're cute and she immediately
started offering up like little bits of money. - In the first message? - In like probably the
first five minutes, yeah. - Okay. - And I was like, uh, I don't know-- - [Nev] Has anyone ever
said that to you before? - No. I went through her page. I thought, she's an attractive person. She seemed really nice and so, I got her number and
we started talking from there. - [Nev] Right. - And then she told me she was gonna come down here to see me. She's like, okay I'm coming. I wait for about probably two hours. I get a text saying your house is massive. I was like, wait you drove past my house? - Right.
- Saw it, gave me a description and then left. I was like why? That makes absolutely no sense. - Well, that's what she says. - Right.
- That's what she says, yes. - When she left, what did she say? - I'm going back for Christmas. - And weren't you like we never hung out? - Yeah I was like what the crap? I was like, I was kinda pissed off. - [Nev] What happened? - And then I spent all of
Christmas with my family. I wasn't on my phone at all. At night I got a call. She is drunk. She is screaming in the phone and she's like, I'm gonna
ruin your entire career. - [Nev] What, why? - 'Cause I didn't talk
to her for like two days. - Oh my god. What else was she saying? - [Jake] That she was
gonna pay people thousands of dollars to expose me online. - [Kamie] Expose you, for what? - Did she have any compromising
information to worry about? - No. - Okay, well I don't know. How did that resolve? - Well that night I told her, I was like, I can't talk
to you for a couple days. I have to like let this simmer down. - Right. - I have to be able to trust you again and so a week later, I texted her and I was like hey, started talking again. - What led you to finally
like reach out to us? - Well, I met Emily at the same convention that Taylor said she met me at. - Right. - And about three weeks ago, I think, she was like, wait
Taylor's a total catfish. - How did Emily find that? - I believe one of her friends told her who like Taylor really was. - But isn't that a wild coincidence? - Yeah. - Unless Emily made the whole
thing up and she's Taylor. - Like it's weird. It's suspicious.
- Yeah, okay. - It really is. But I want it to be real, you know? You gotta. - All right, I want to do
some research on Taylor. Start investigating first
thing in the morning. - She could just be (bleep) us around. She could not even be here at all. (tense music) - [Nev] It's been a few minutes. Could this be her? - The dog? I wish. - The blue car.
- Oh, here's a car. - [Kamie] Where? (gasping) (tense music) - Holy. - [Kamie] There's three people. - There were three people in that car. - There were three girls in there. - But it's stopping, here. (bleep) Someone's definitely coming towards us. And inside. (tense music) - Hi. - Oh, that voice. - What's up? I'm Nev. - Nice to meet you, I'm Amanda. - Amanda, okay. - Amanda. Kamie. - Nice to meet you.
- Nice to meet you. - [Nev] Obviously Jake. - Hi. - So, are you Taylor? - [Amanda] Sorry, I'm nervous. - I understand. Where you we coming from? - Louisiana. - [Nev] That's far. - It's like an eight hour drive. - Did you drive?
- You drove? - [Nev] Whoa. Who was in the car with you? We saw two other people. - They're two of my best friends. - [Nev] Is one of them Emily? - I don't know who Emily is. - Emily (bleep). (tense music) - [Nev] So you didn't have
an interaction with Emily? She's not involved in all this? She told Jake someone told her you were a Catfish. How does she know that? - There are people that know
that my account is fake. I turn the comments off
so they can't comment. - [Nev] Okay. We're trying to figure
what's been going on, so. - Well, I want to apologize to you first. I'm sorry. I didn't, I didn't think
that he would like talk to me as me because I'm very insecure
about what I look like. - Okay well who is me? - I'm 24. - [Nev] Okay, so you are 24. Okay. - [Amanda] I started catfishing about four or five years ago.
- Okay. - Because I was bullied in high school, so I had to be homeschooled
because of that and I don't have very many friends, so that's kinda the mindset
I had when going into it and I know it was wrong. I know it's not the best
way to make friends. But. - Sure, maybe in high
school when it was happening you did it to like get
away from the feelings you were having but then you had, you know, six years to grow up and stop doing that. - I just don't understand where
you think it was gonna go? And I mean, like you know,
like we have had conversations where I've been like, yo, like trust a massive thing for me. You break it, you gotta earn it back and it's gonna be hard to earn it back. Why not just try to start
a conversation as yourself? Like, just try. - I mean, you're right. - But why him? - Well, we had, we met
in person in October at an event. I had a party in my hotel room. I used the Taylor account and told him to come to the party and he came. - So you guys actually hung out? - Do you remember now that
she gave you that reference? - Very very briefly. - I just don't get it. What are, like why are you
making friends with kids and like fake hosting parties and sending them money, like? - I have a hard time talking to people. - He mentioned that there
was at least one time where you got really upset with him, said some things that
were kinda like aggro. Did that happen? - Yes but something did happen that I'd rather not talk about right now. (tense music) - He told us that you
were like threatening to blackmail him. - I did do that but I did apologize because I do realize it was wrong of me to put him in that position. (laughs) I did apologize. - [Nev] Okay, well I just, what. - Right but what were you
planning on blackmailing him with that holds so much weight that it would ruin his entire career? - I don't really feel
comfortable talking about that. (tense music) - Look, I know this was a lot. I think that there's still some more stuff to kinda just iron out. Let's just plan on meeting
back up tomorrow at some point if it suits everyone. - No, that's fine. - So, okay. So we're here to find out, 'cause I definitely feel
like there was something you didn't want to say yesterday. - I basically, I don't
want to make Jake look bad for the things that he's done to me. - Okay. - But (bleep) that. This is a safe space,
your friends are here. We're here. We're open. - You have a right to speak for yourself and defend yourself. Let me ask you. Yesterday though you brought
up that there was something that came up that you
didn't want to talk about. Do you still feel like you
don't want to talk about it, or is it? - I'll talk about it. So on Christmas Eve, he called me and he was freaking out
because he was like, I don't have money to get
my family Christmas presents and I can't go home
without presents for them. So I sent him $300. So then he was like, okay I'll call you when I get home and he never called me and that is when I got mad and told him I was gonna
basically put him on blast because I felt like he
was using me for money. - [Nev] Wow, that definitely
was not the story Jake told us. - And then there's the, just the other day he had asked Amanda for, what was it, $600 or something for a phone. Or however much, you know, a phone costs and Amanda was like, I only have 300 and he was like, that's fine, send it. There's other times where
like he's requested money and she's declined.
- Right. - Multiple times and he made her feel bad for her declining his request. - So he sent requests? - He sent me a request for $300 to bail his friend out of jail. - Like, why would you even ask Amanda? Like that's not her responsibility. - But has he demanded money from you? - He's called me a few times and he's asked me to send him food to his house and I do because he's like, I'm hungry, babe, I'm hungry, can you send me food, and I'm like, okay sure. - So why do you keep sending him (bleep)? - It definitely helps understand why you were upset. 'Cause he didn't,
obviously, tell the story exactly the same way. And yesterday, what you
probably really should have been doing is standing up for yourself and say hey, you know what, yes I lied to you, I
shouldn't have done that but you've really treated me badly. - Right.
- I do have a problem when it comes to standing up for myself. - What do we go? Oh, Catfish casting. Oh man.
- It's from casting. - That means something's up Hey guys, you should check out this video. Maybe you can help. Oh boy.
- Help. - What is this video? Andrea Russett. - Wait, I know her.
- I follow this. - She's a YouTuber.
- Yeah. I follow her on Twitter. - So before this video of craziness... - [Nev] She's got three
and half million followers. - That's a lot. ♪ Who am I to try to stop believing ♪ Wait, what is she talking about? - Let's see. - I'm sure you guys are already aware. There's been literally
thousands of profiles using my pictures online and a lot of 'em, I kind
of just brush it off because they're ridiculous, they can't even spell my name right. They're saying crazy things. But I recently found some
profiles imitating my family. And I just feel like,
one you involve my family it's kinda just taking it too far. So I'm here to ask you guys, how do I handle this? Leave a comment below. - Wow. - It's got almost 40,000 likes and hundreds of comments. A lot of people tagging me and you. - [Max] Her fan base is calling us. - We've been summoned. The fans have spoken. This is a crowdsourced episode of Catfish. Wow, that was fast. - [Max] Really fast. - Hey, Andrea.
- Andrea. - Hello. - What's up. How are ya? - I'm good. - So, how long have you
had your YouTube channel? - I started YouTube in like sixth grade. So like 2009. Thank you very much for
the 5,000 plus subscribers. - How old does that make you now? - I'll be 21 next month. - Oh wow.
- Oh. - I feel good. - And when did you start developing kinda your following and fame? - In 2009. 'Cause I had one video go viral and then from that, I
worked at my radio station in my hometown Fort Wayne, Indiana. Which helped grow the YouTube stuff. - And is that where you are now? - No, I live in LA now. - [Both] Okay. - Nice. - Yeah. - So for the last five years you've known sort of internet fame and I'm sure all of the wonderful things and all of the sort of weird, creepy things that come with that. - Definitely. I've pretty much been
seeing people use photos of me as profiles since 2010. I mean, I've seen profiles asking people to send them nudes. I've gotten emails from people that think they're engaged to me. People have been sending them money. Like crazy crazy stuff. For my family, I just feel like, it makes me worry more and
it just concerns me a lot. - How many different accounts are there? - [Andrea] There's me and my mom, my dad, my sister, and my brother. - Are they talking to each other? - [Andrea] Yeah, they'll
like each other's photos. They'll comment. ♪ So many miles to go ♪ - So there's a conspiracy? - For sure. - When did the accounts get made? - [Andrea] My sister's
account goes back to 2013. - Whoa, but you only just now saw it? - Yeah. - Whoa, that's creepy. - I've had some really
scary run ins with people. Like stalkers. So it makes me worry more for my family. What if it really gets out of control? (soft tense music) - Hi, Zoie right?
- Yeah. Nice to meet you.
- Nice to meet you, I'm Nev. How you doing? Why don't you come on out? Some people I'm sure you recognize. - Yeah. Can I start by saying to you, especially, like I'm really sorry
for using your picture, not only of you, but like of your family. It was never anything personal. At the time, I was being really selfish. Like, that's the best excuse I can say. - You didn't stop to think like maybe this is a really bad idea? - It did cross my mind but like I said, I was being selfish and I didn't care. - So, you didn't stop to think about the multiple people
that you were messing with? You didn't think about any of that? - It wasn't ever to
seriously be vindictive or anything like that. That's not what I wanted to do. - But that is what you did. - It is what I did but that was never my intention. - Well, what was your intention? - Yeah. - To find something that I didn't have. Put on a mask and be able
to connect with people. - And how and why did you choose Andrea? - Honestly, I googled pretty Tumbler girl and she popped up and I was like, okay. But then like people would
bring it to my attention, like oh this account's fake. Why aren't people tagging you? Why don't you have family members? So, I decided to create other profiles so people wouldn't suspect. - You said you didn't
want to be vindictive but like I've seen the things you said to other people.
- Yeah. - [Andrea] It wasn't
like polite all the time. - I understand.
- So that's pretty vindictive to say stuff like that
and to manipulate people. - Yeah, I know. - We picked Alex out of a hat. Are we to understand
that he's the only person that you had an emotional
relationship with as Andrea or as anyone of these fake profiles? - Emotionally, yes, but I
did talk to other people. - [Max] How many? - I, honestly, maybe three other people. - Three other guys that
you were flirtatious with and who thought that they were moving toward some kind of a relationship-- - And are somewhere out there thinking they talk to me and thinking that I'm this person that you portrayed me to me that I'm probably not. - Yeah. (tense music) - I've heard you when you're sincere. This doesn't seem sincere. Here's the thing, you know me well. - Yeah.
- You know me very well at this point and you know
that I'm a caring person in general and I like to help
people, and you know that. - I know.
- And you had every opportunity to turn that around and just say hey, I'm
gonna be honest with you because you're a really good person and I like, I'd like to
show you that I am, too. - I agree. It was really wrong. (tense music) I'm sincerely sorry but
that's what happened. I can't change it but I am sorry. - What scares me a little bit is how resolved you seem about all this. - It seems rehearsed. - It seems a little canned, yeah. - I don't, I mean, I don't
know how else to say it. - This one is from Akirra. The subject is a catfish
is ruining my relationship. Hey Nev and Kamie, things are getting out of hand and I realize you're the only ones who can help. - Probably. - My boyfriend, William, and I have been dating for the past three months. We're completely in love but recently a girl named Jamie has been blowing up his phone constantly. When I asked William about it, he said that he and
Jamie used to date online but out of respect for
me, William blocked her but she's been messaging
him from other profiles. Can't get over him and
is doing anything she can to stay in touch. With all this going on, I
decided to look into her. William believes she's some sort of social media influencer
because she has a ton of followers.
- God, no. - But I saw her Twitter
and it looked shady. It's clear to me, she's
isn't just a stalker ex, she's a catfish and it's gotten even worse. I'm getting weird messages
from fake accounts and they're freaking me
out and pissing me off. Jamie even told William
that he better watch out because she knows his address. (Tense music) I love William but I don't
know what to do anymore. She's going to ruin our relationship if we don't get her out of our lives. Thanks in advance, Akirra. - Watch out.
- Right. - I'm gonna show up at your house. She's a stalker. - I'm nervous now. So let's get the story. - Spill the tea. - So me and Jamie was talking
for like around two years. She hit me up on Twitter. I guess I liked a tweet and then that's when she inboxed me. She told me her name Jamie Gonzalez. She retweets things
for promos, like money. - So it's like, if you pay me $5, I'll post your picture on my page? - Yes.
- Like that? 'Cause she has lot of followers. - Yeah. Just wanted to get to know who she was. That's when I started texting her, talking to her on the phone. - [Nev] How often were you guys talking? - Everyday. She's a cool person. She's caring, thoughtful. She aint no judgy person. She had me hooked. - [Kamie] Did you love her? - Yeah, I loved her. I cared about her. At the time. I told her I needed help money wise. That's when she was like giving me money. But when she was doing the promo stuff and thing like that, her PayPal got suspended. - Oh, wait a second. So people send her money
to help promote stuff and then so you're getting just random. - Random money like-- - Money from different accounts. - Yes, some random person. - Was there ever a conversation where she was like, can you accept this and then pay me? Or was it just like, oh you know what, you just take it. Like you never had an agreement? - She supposedly supposed
to sell her house out in New York to come live down here with me, for me. But she kept making excuses. I was getting tired, frustrated of this, so I moved on. I told her like, I can't
keep on doing this no more. - I mean this is weird. - I know. I know it's crazy. - This is maybe the weirdest
(bleep) I've ever heard. Some random girl who
says she's in New York tells her all clients to pay you on PayPal for the social media work she's doing? - Hello.
- Hey. - What did I miss? Sorry. - You scared me.
- You made it. What's up? - Nice to meet you. - Hello. - So, what did I miss, guys? - The biggest thing
that kinda we cleared up is this money thing. - It's crazy. You know, you wouldn't
be like expecting someone to do that. Like, it's weird and it's strange. - How many different accounts do you think have sent you money? - Man, more than 50. - You have your PayPal
transaction history. We could look at it, right? I'd like to see that. Wow, oh my god. - Look at all those scrolls your doing. - He's gonna break his thumb. Holy (bleep). - He doesn't believe this is a catfish? - [Nev] Okay, so wait a second. So.
- There we go. - [Nev] Jaime Aronofsky, 90 bucks. - I thought her last name was Gonzalez. - Right. - [Nev] Is she Buttercup Gonzalez? - That's what she, that's
what she was calling herself, that's how I met her. - Wait, so she sent you
90 bucks a lot of time. - Adding up. - Jesus. 60, 100, 50, 70, 40. Are you (bleep) kidding me? Don't break with this girl. (laughing) This is the best thing you got going. - Thank you, thank you. - Akirra, get out of here. (laughing) - Thank you, thank you. - Why you messing this up? - Thank you. (laughing) Thank you. See? Oh my god. - [Nev] This is a lot of money, man. Jesus, we're still in May. Dawnie five bucks, J Jew five bucks, Sarah five bucks. There's a lot of these. Holy (bleep). You have $15 pending payment. - He doesn't care, he's
getting money everyday. - He doesn't even care. This is crazy. - With PayPal messages, she said, she like I sent you over 5K. - Oh, she requested $5,000. - This was around the time
when I actually broke it off with her. - [Nev] She said pay back my
money or it's a be a problem. - That's when Akirra told me to block her off Instagram and Twitter. That's when she contacted me on PayPal. - I helped you over two years and this is what you do to me? She sends a request for
six a half million dollars. (laughing) And then said, don't keep (bleep) playing with me. (tense music) - Oh my gosh. This (bleep) crazy, cuh. This (bleep) crazy. - Hi. - How you doing? Nev. - I'm Jamie.
- Kamie. - Nice to meet you. - Obviously you know William. - Yeah. - Why don't we talk out here? It's a little dark under there. So what's going on? - A lot. - You're Jamie.
- Yeah. - Whole time you're Jamie. - But I did tell you in text who I was and I sent you pictures. - You're right. Because we just.
- We just saw it. - We just saw.
- Yeah. - [Nev] So when you first met him where you lying about the pictures? - Yes, I was.
- Okay. So initially you were
using different pictures? So you admitted that you
were using the wrong pictures and you sent him the right pictures? - Yeah. - [Nev] Then did you go back
to using fake pictures again? - Yeah because he kept
on not really believing that that was me. So I said, like in my head, I said I would go along with that. - So that is confusing for him. I mean. For most people, I would
think, they would get it. - When I started developing
feelings that I had, I came clean. 'Cause I felt it was
the right thing to do. - Thank you. (laughing) You are the first person. You lied about who you were, then you got into a relationship, you had feelings for him, so you told him the truth. - [Jamie] Yeah, 'cause
it was bothering me. For awhile.
- And you didn't want to believe it. - I didn't believe it. - What's up with all the money? 'Cause that's very confusing to us. - I had feelings for him and I just, I just wanted to help him out. - Just because you liked him? - 'Cause she loved me. - Yeah. - And so that was just your money? - Yeah, I was making on social media. I mean, I never really had a
really serious relationship and it was like, if I sent him money, it would keep him around. I look at it now that I
shouldn't have done that but because I couldn't break how I felt, then I just kept doing it. - These other accounts that I think you created to mess with him and other girls that he was dating. Is that? - No. - [Nev] Did you not make
any of those accounts? - No. - But you've contacted Akirra. - No. I mean I don't know what
messages that it's referring to. - I know where you live,
I want my money back. - Yeah, I've said that but I didn't actually like think that, it's real like I was
actually gonna do that. - You didn't try to log
into her Instagram account. - No, there's no way I could of done that. - I don't know see nobody else doing that. - I didn't have a valid
reason to go after Akirra. - Well, yes you did.
- You do. - Love him.
- And honestly, yeah. - And have a relationship with him and then he started dating Akirra. - I wouldn't blame you because I would be (bleep) pissed off, too. I would be like, who the
hell do you think you are just like walking all over me? - I feel like you're really
judgemental at times. - Oh my god.
- You are. - I'm judgemental?
- Yeah. - I don't think I'm judgemental. I don't judge people. - I don't think that's right. I would not say that to you. - So wait, so after you showed
him pictures of yourself, he said I'm not attracted
to this girl, she's ugly? - [Jamie] Yeah. - That's (bleep) up. - And he said that he didn't find my actual voice attractive. - You said her voice was ugly? - Yeah, I said her voice was ugly. I don't remember though, but, yeah. - I do.
- You don't have a lot of memories of a lot of things. - 'Cause I try to forget. - I remember everything. I pretty much keep all of our convos, I have everything yeah. - That's how much you
was in love with me, huh? - Yeah.
- You really did love me? - What are your feelings
toward William now? - I still love him, I do. I think he is a great person regardless of me feeling hurt. - [Nev] So you would like
to still have a relationship of some kind?
- Yeah. - [Nev] And obviously you still have strong feelings for him. - Yeah. - But he's in a relationship, so. Do you have any, what
are your feelings now towards Jamie? I mean, do you wanna still be friends? - No. I just feel like we should
go our separate ways and move on from this. 'Cause Akirra, she thinks like, you know we talking, that
I still have feelings, I still love her and care about her. But that's not the case at all. 'Cause I love Akirra
and I wouldn't do that. I'm not a cheater. - William, if you don't want to be friends with Jamie, then you also
can't be accepting her money. - I know. I apologize, I'm sorry for any, for everything I did or if
you felt that I hurt you. I apologize for that. - I feel the same way. I mean, yeah I'm sorry I lied
to you about a lot of things. - My life is an online riot? Hey Nev and Max. I can't believe I'm writing
you guys but here goes. My name is Nicole Riot and I live in Salt Lake City, Utah. I'm 25 years old and for the past nine years, my identity has been used to catfish other people. - Wow. - So she. - She's a mask. - A lot of people use her pictures. When I was 16, I joined Myspace and I was on it all the time. I had thousands of followers
from allover the world and was really open
about myself and my life. My online friends started telling me that they've seen my photos
on other Myspace profiles. These were obviously fake. Then I started being called a catfish. That's when things became too much. - Don't call me a catfish, now. - Strangers would message me believing I was someone else and accuse me of lying to them. They believed that they were
having an online relationship with me, sometimes for years, and were pissed that I
had disappeared on them. I was paranoid and it started to affect me in real life. I was dating someone at the time and this whole thing ended up breaking us up. A couple of years ago, I joined Facebook and discovered there were fake profiles
of me on there, too, but this time, it was worse. They were using my photos and the name Nicole Riot. - [Max] So they were
using her real name, too? - Right.
- That's crazy. - [Nev] I'm just tired of this. I want to take my identity back. I think you guys might be the only ones who could really help. - Hello.
- Hey. - Hey. - How's it going over there in Salt Lake? - It's awesome. It's actually nice weather today, so. - Do you like it there? - Does anybody like it here? It's all right. - We saw your email, lot of questions. So just sort of tell us
how this all got started and give us a little bit more detail. - Okay, well. It all started when I
was 16 and made Myspace and I used to have thousands of followers. - Okay but you're not
like a social media star, you're not like an Instagram model? - No, I'm definitely not a model. I don't post like scandalous
photos or anything. So. - But you did achieve some level of kind of social media fame and you had a lot of pictures up there and so anyone could of
just kinda stolen pictures from that account to then use them later? - Yeah. - When you first went on Myspace and kinda of shared a lot of your life. What was the thinking behind that? Were you just bored with
life in Salt Lake City? - It was kinda like that, yeah. Like I just wanted to be
out there more, I guess. I was not out when I was 16. 'Cause it's like Utah, so. I didn't come out to my parents
till like two years ago. - Oh wow.
- Yeah. They're like super LDS and no. You know? - So you're LDS, Mormon. So I imagine you had
to keep your sexuality under wraps for most of
your young adult life? - Yeah. - So one of these profiles or a couple of these profiles got you into hot water
with your ex-girlfriend. What happened? - She found some other
profiles on Facebook and they were using the
exact same name as mine. So she kinda automatically assumed that I made other profiles
to talk to other people and we would fight about it a lot. It just kinda blew up in my face. - How long were you dating her for? - A few years. Like two or three years. - Wow.
- Yeah. - So that was pretty serious relationship that got broken up? - Yeah. And I feel bad for like
these other people, you know, who think they're dating me. It's not cool. - [Max] Yeah. - I want to know like what you can do to help me, you know? - I think we can figure it out. - Yeah, we'll figure something out. - Yeah. - All right, Nicole, we're gonna meet you in Salt Lake City. We're gonna figure out how to fix this. - It's gonna be a riot. - Yeah. - All right, let's do it. - All right, see you soon? - Okay, cool. Thank you. - [Both] Bye. - Bye. It's a girl. - It is a girl. - Oh. Holy (bleep). I. - You know this person?
- I know her. - Really? - Yup. - Hi.
- Hello. Obviously I was the one
running the fake profile, so. - What's your name? - Arica. - Arica.
- Yeah. - Max.
- Nice to meet you. - Do you guys know each other? - Online, yeah. - [Arica] I added her as
myself on my Facebook page. - [Man] Why? - I think I was slowly making
that transition to tell her 'cause I think the first
thing I said to you was like, wow that's crazy how people are using your pictures. That was to get her to
accept like my friend request and me and a person and then, well eventually
kinda come clean about the whole situation. And, obviously I know Ryan. - Ryan. - That's crazy. I don't know what to say. - Yeah.
- I did not even recognize her. - Yeah, I low key dated
Ryan like 10 years ago. Yeah.
- Ryan. Do you remember that? - I remember that but I didn't
recognize you walking up. - Yeah.
- It's been a long time. - You guys dated in high school? - Yeah, like we dated. - [Ryan] We dated for like three weeks. - Continue.
- Okay. So, really the profile got started is because when me and Ryan were dating, that was kinda during the time my mother was just not
about like relationships, you can't talk to boys, nothing. So we were told not to talk to each other. Like no communication, nothing. Me being, you know, head
over heels kind of person, I was like, I need to talk to him. I, you know, was on Myspace. I think I had Myspace and Facebook. And there was this like account
called like fake busters where they used to bust
like fake profiles. Her pictures were one of them. I mean, she had like a YouTube video saying she was real. I was like, dang this is
kinda like the perfect person to use, you know? Someone wanted to call me out, well hey, here's the YouTube video saying like I'm a real person. - I was the pawn. - But it kinda enabled
me to still talk to him and him being kinda receiving of it. Other than that, it's kinda
been like a one and done kind of conversation with other people. - Glad I know that now. - Well we know that you did reach out to like other local Cleveland people. - Yeah, the profile was kinda the almost like last word profile. I mean, throughout the
years of high school and just like bullying and all those, you know, kinda just drama, people would always block
me on my personal page and like would say whatever, then block me and I'm like really? Okay, so I just hop on as Nicole and you know get my last word in and then that was it. - Why not just shut it off? You can just deactivate a profile. - Right. So-- - Why is still up? 'Cause like, using her
pictures and her name. - Right. - And then separately as yourself like being friends with them. Its like. - It's kinda (bleep) my life up in a way. - Me personally, and I'm not saying that this isn't an important issue but I had other things going on in my life that I was just kinda like, all right, I'll get to this later. - I think we got a video. All right, let's see here. What do we got? - Hey Nev and Max. My name is Diajane and I'm 19 years old and I'm from Youngstown, Ohio. A lot of my friends call me Nae though because Diajane is just
too hard to pronounce. I've been talking to
this guy named Brandon for about six months now and he's really sweet and insanely cute. (upbeat music) And he lives only a few hours away from me in Altoona, Pennsylvania and he came into my life at a time where I really needed someone most. ♪ Did I say something stupid ♪ ♪ Do I seem kind of clueless ♪ ♪ Do you think I'm a doofus ♪ ♪ Please answer me ♪ And by the way, he's internet famous and in find that really really cool. ♪ I'm such a sensitive guy ♪ But the only problem is we haven't had an opportunity to meet and I really want to
take this relationship to the next level but I
don't think I can do that if we haven't met face to face. I really want to pursue this relationship. So could you please give
me a call and help me? - Let's call Dijane. - She's Nae. Oh she goes by Nae with an A-E. - Whoa.
- Hey. - What up? - Hi. - We just saw your
intense video submission. - Yeah, why was it so intense? - You were racing through it. - I don't know. Maybe it was because my
friend was filming it and she was just like making faces in the behind, in the background. - So, tell us about yourself. - I used to go school at Youngstown State and now I'm just like
working like crazy now. - How old are you? - [Nae] I'm 19. - Okay, so you're young. All right, so we want to know how you and Brandon met and sort
of tell us the whole story of the last six months. - Um, so, after like a failed relationship that I was in, I decided to join Tinder. I saw his picture and I was the
one that swiped right on him he also swiped right on me. After two days, that's when he reached out and said, you'd make a great girlfriend and I don't now, I don't
know where my head was. I was like, how me? He was like, duh. And I said, oh okay. - Hold on, time out. The first message he sent you was you'd make a good girlfriend? - Yeah. - I mean. - That's a weird thing to say. - Why are you buying this? Why would you, you're a smart girl. - 'Cause he's internet famous. - All right, so sorry.
- When did you find out he was internet famous
and what kind of fame does he have? - I looked him up and I
found him on a website called like famous people birthdays and it like told me everything about him. - Got it. - So I said, am I missing something, are you like internet famous or something? So then he was like, yeah. I make Vines and videos. - Is he hot? - Is he hot? - Yeah. He's like blonde hair, blue eyes and he's like super tall and I'm really like attracted to that and he was someone like
I could really talk to. My past relationships have all been fails and it's always me coming second to another female in
all of the relationships and this time, I don't know, he just made me feel
like I was number one. - Have you guys talked on the phone? - We've spoken once. - And what was that like? - Well I was telling my twin sister about the whole situation. So she was like, girl he's catfishing you. Just, just leave it alone. I was like, no he isn't. Watch. So I gave him a call or whatever and I let him know like, hey I'm telling people about us and this is what they're thinking. So then he flipped out,
got really pissed at me, said your sisters an idiot. I'm real, like this and that. So we stopped talking
for a short period time and then he came back. After that, we just
continued like talking. - You need our help, obviously. We're gonna fly you to Los Angeles. We're gonna do some research, we're gonna see who this guy really is and track him down and
bring you guys together. All right. Well, any minute now. Any minute now. - How are you feeling? - Oh geeze. We shall see. - Who's this? This looks like could be our guy. Hey. Are you our guy? I know that you wanted to
meet up with her privately but we're involved,
obviously, at this point. - Right. - [Nev] And this is what she wants. I think you owe that to her. Can I go in there, get them, and bring them out? I think you owe that to her. I mean, you've come this far. I'll be right back. He's cool with us coming
out and filming, so. (tense music) - Are you for real? (bleep) - [Nev] Do you know this guy? - [Nae] Yeah, one of my exes. - That you said still liked you but... - Yeah. - [Max] What's your name again? - Thomas.
- Thomas. - Thomas.
- No. Like no. This (bleep), no this is not for me. Like, no, like. All this (bleep) time wasted. - I wanted to do it
without none of the cameras to save all this. I didn't want to do it
front of everybody else. But you know how I felt about you and I know how we ended. I didn't, you know, feel it was right to come to you as me and I then I tried to tell you before it got to this point but it's kinda hard to do that. - You played me back to back to back and then, oh when I finally move on, then you decide, oh okay I want her back. Like where the (bleep) was that attitude back when I had feelings for you? - So, you guys dated in high school? - Right. - When you 15.
- My first three years of high school.
- And it wasn't the best relationship and then you broke up and at some point you decided you wanted her back. - Right. - So you made the Tinder account. - Right. - Why did you chose that guy? - When we were together, she talked about kinda her image of what she would be attracted to. - A tall, white, blonde guy? - Yeah. - What was the plan? - I mean, hopefully, you know, she realize that I went
through all this for her and that my feelings are real and hopefully we could work something out. - Why should she give you another chance? - 'Cause I learned from
my mistakes, you know. I realize, you know, where I messed up at. - Back when we were trying, you know you couldn't give two (bleep) whether or not I breathed or not. Let's be real here. - Back then, you know, yeah I did mess up and I did take you for granted. But when you were talking to me, the feelings were still real. We were still have a real conversation and you just thought it was somebody else. - It's not high school anymore. This is not how you get somebody back. Like, come on now. That's it, like I'm
done talking right now. Yeah. (tense music) - [Nev] You knew she'd be mad. - Right. - This is just. You don't waste nobody time like that. This is just like too much.
