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Whatdoescatfishmean?Asidefrombeingadeliciouskindofriverfish,acatfishisaslangtermforsomeonewhoseducesapersonwithafalseidentityonline.

The 2010 documentary Catfish, directed by Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman about a young man getting romantically duped[1] by a woman with a fake Facebook profile, takes its name from a tale long told about catfish—that fishers would ship catfish with codfish[2] because they would keep the codfish alert, active, and better tasting.

That fishy story originates as a kind of Christian parable[3] recorded by the early 1900s, but the documentary popularized catfish as a metaphor[4] for a person who seduces another with a fake profile, pretending to be someone more attractive, successful, interesting, or sympathetic[5]—keeping the seduced “on their toes” like codfish swimming with catfish. This is what happened to the subject of Catfish, Nev Schulman, who discovers that the woman he developed an online relationship had completely made up her profile.

The documentary spawned MTV’s re...