Catfish Just Collided With OnlyFans (!) To Unmask A Con Artist

Catfish just exposed more than just a con artist: It was the opening time the docuseries featured a collision with popular subscription site OnlyFans. And the fiery confrontation that eventually erupted between a male looking for love and the person who’d deceived him was nearly also hot for TV.


On this week's episode, MTV detectives Nev and Kamie met a Detroit native named Ryan, who — like several others in COVID-mandated quarantine — had turned Tinder to create new connections. About a month earlier, Ryan mentioned, he’d matched with a 21-year-old restaurant worker named Micah, and what began with Instagram messages and Snapchat check-ins evolved into day-to-day communication.


Ryan was so invested in the new spark, he mentioned, he’d even deleted Tinder.


Still, Nev and Kamie had their doubts about Micah. For one thing, she and Ryan only talked on the phone two or three times, and so they never video chatted. Further, though Micah’s Snapchat page was teeming with content, she had neither a Instagram nor a Facebook page.


Oh, and Ryan had sent her more than $500 over the course of their chats, which Micah had requested for new hairstyles as well as a widening wardrobe.


Immediately, Kamie suspected Micah may have been a fake and that the person in back of the account had subscribed to her OnlyFans account, stolen her private photographs and peddled them to Ryan to pressure him for cash.


“Ryan is a trick,” Kamie mentioned. “It’s like trick-or-treat.”


Immediately after some statistics, it was discovered that Micah’s phone number was registered to someone named Kassandra and that a woman named Bryanna had commented on Kassandra’s page: “I need converse with you -- it’s about Micah.”


Rapidly, the detectives got in touch with Bryanna, who confirmed that Micah was real (and, indeed, operated a OnlyFans account) however added that she and Micah both imagined a catfish was stealing and peddling Micah’s photographs. And once Nev and Kamie finally made contact with Micah herself, the 21-year-old confirmed that she knew a woman named Kassandra had been attempting to steal her content.


Ryan was crushed, especially as soon as he and Micah finally came face-to-face on Zoom; there, Micah confirmed she had never met or spoken to him.


Kamie, meanwhile, was concerned that whoever was beyond the stolen photographs was putting Micah at risk (imagine if a male who’d sent cash to the fake-Micah account saw the real woman in public and confronted her). Soon, the sort determined to sleep on their discoveries before confronting Kassandra.


But sleep did little to create the order for what came next: a male named Tony, who introduced himself because the gatekeeper of the fake-Micah account. Tony insisted he’d duped Ryan — and several other boys — to teach boys a lesson about accepting uncensored pictures from women.


“It’s a lesson for all of the guys who are on there,” Tony said.


(For the record, Tony’s logic didn’t add up, as Ryan didn’t know Micah had a OnlyFans account. And yes, Tony’s philosophies were misogynistic.)


Tony mentioned he’d pay Ryan back and that his scheme was harmless. Either way, Kamie insisted, it was dangerous. Then she snapped on Tony for his chauvinistic behavior.


“That’s so f*cked up,” she mentioned. “Who are you to tell females they should expect to have their pictures taken and shared to lure boys for money?”


The bad news: Tony signed off in a huff right after refusing to admit to any wrongdoing. The good news: Micah asked Nev and Kamie for Ryan’s number, meaning the horror show might still lead to a love story. Think it might? Sound off with your predictions, then catch another Catfish Wednesday at 8/7c.