It's easy to catfish strangers on dating apps

One of the pitfalls of the later seasons of MTV's Catfish: The TV Show was the lack of any actual catfishes. When the show aired in 2012, Tinder was in its infancy, and a lot of the earlier participants of the show had begun their e-relationships through Facebook or MySpace. Online love during the aughts and early 2010s was hard and weird. And thanks to the show and growing tech literacy, deceptive online daters should've been a thing of the past — but it's still more common than ever and