"You Got Me There"

Currently, in 2017, there are not many people who have not heard the term "catfish". To most it means, a person who pretends to be someone they are not on the internet. Catfish, a documentary produced in 2010, is what began the use of the term "catfish". The film lead to the creation of Catfish: The TV Show that currently airs as a reality TV show on MTV. Most people, including myself, have watched Catfish: The TV Show, but never watched the original Catfish documentary before watching it in class. I was aware that the documentary existed, but just never bothered to watch it. In many episodes, not all, of Catfish: The TV Show there is a significant difference in the reasoning that people catfish others as compared to what I believe is the reason Angela catfished Nev.
For example:

The gif from the episode Catfish: The TV Show presented above is known to be one of the most iconic moments in Catfish: The TV Show history. Notoriously known for the "terrifying slow clap" and the statement "you got me there" to which he replied after Nev confronted him about being in an intimate relationship with another man, but still denying he was gay. This man's reasoning for catfishing was because the other guy was trying to be in relationship with someone else while he was already in a committed relationship with a family, but when meeting with Nev and the guy he had been catfishing for the first time he was extremely aggressive and angry. Therefore, making his reasoning for catfishing extremely different than Angela's.

When Angela catfished Nev by pretending to be several different people online, even going as far to make fake Facebook accounts for all of them, I do not believe she did so in order to be malicious. She was lonely and looking for friends and relationships that she did not receive in her home life. That being said, what she did is not okay nor is it ever acceptable. She even involved her eight year old daughter, Abby, in the lies and deceiving which only makes everything else she did even worse. Also, when Nev arrived at her home to confront her about the impersonation she claimed to have cancer, which was false. Nev also asked her who all of these people were that she was impersonating. to which she replied that they were people she knew in the town she lived, also false. Including Megan who Angela claimed was real, but she was at Dawn Farms. Nev later discovered that there was no Megan at Dawn Farms making that Angela's third lie when she had every opportunity to tell the truth about the entire situation.