Catfish Poll: Was Deven A Victim -- Or A Habitual F-ckboy?

A young man named Deven had our sympathy soon after being deceived by a Internet fraud on this week’s Catfish, nevertheless by episode's end, we had to wonder: Was he truly a victim, or just a bona fide f-ckboy?


The 27-year-old, from Arizona, had met (and fallen for) 23-year-old James on a dating app. However get this: Just like every other catfish in the past of ever, James would never talk on the phone or FaceTime, however he did constantly ask Deven to meet up typically in Las Vegas). Weird, right? Nev and this week's visitor host, former NFL star Rashad Jennings, sure thought so and rapidly started investigating.


Before long, they had a pair of suspects. First, there was Juan, a former colleague of Deven's who was apparently crushing on him. Second, Deven said a guy he knew in Vegas -- a FWB, to be blunt -- nevertheless insisted he wasn't likely to be the catfish.


WRONG.


Once Nev, Rashad and Deven traveled to Nevada to meet The world wide web fraud, it was indeed Deven's jumpoff (aka Sha'Quan). So why'd he create the fake profile? First, to lure Deven to Sin City.


“I texted him to hang out as 'James,' and then, if he came to Vegas, 'James' wouldn’t show up," Sha'Quan mentioned. With "James" a no-show, he reasoned, Deven would then probably text him for a booty call.


sort of sad however clever at the same time, right?


But mostly, Sha'Quan mentioned, he was attempting to keep in touch with his crush -- one who, basically, was routinely hitting it and quitting it.


“I wanted to be able to see how he was doing, nevertheless every time I attempt converse with him, he doesn’t respond," Sha'Quan mentioned. You know, despite the fact that they were having intermittent sex.


"Is that true?" Nev asked Deven.


"Yeah. I just…yeah," Deven answered, before declaring, “If I didn’t text [him] back, why wouldn’t that give him the hint? You can’t just beat a dead horse -- it’s already dead."


And that's as soon as Rashad jumped in with some horse sense of his own. Visualize what we did there?)


however if the horse is dead, everybody can mention the horse is dead," he mentioned. "It sounds like Sha'Quan is saying he never got the scoop that the horse was dead.”


Without consideration, Deven was unapologetic. “I’m just not into him enough to be in a relationship with him," he mentioned, before adding that anyone in their right mind "would understand that."


#harsh


For his part, Nev pointed out that Deven was sending mixed signals -- sentiments that were repeated the next day by Sha'Quan's friend Tiara, who compared Sha'Quan's catfishing to Deven's f-ckboying.


“[Deven] did the same thing," she mentioned, noting that Deven would message Sha'Quan, lead him on, and then ghost him. "He’d get what he wanted and disappear.” Then, turning to Deven, she mentioned, “That’s where the confusion is coming from. [You’re saying] you’re not attracted to him -- he’s not your type or whichever -- however he’s enough for you to hook up [with].”


So was Deven apologetic then? Nah. His reply: “Yeah. That’s all it was for me.”


The FWBs went their separate ways, although we've got to ask: Did Deven bring all this upon himself by sending out mixed signals, and is he just a usual f-ckboy? Or is it just as much Sha'Quan's fault, as he kept going back for, um, more? Vote in our poll below and then share your opinion!