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How The High School Catfish Show Broke My Brain

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Jen Mann
Sep 06, 2025
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Oh Em Gee, who else watched Unknown Number: The High School Catfish? This one is blowing my mind a bit. The way I yelled, “Holy shit!” was very similar to way I yelled it when I watched Abducted in Plain Sight. Remember that rollercoaster of a shit show?

Okay, let me just stop right here and say: IF YOU HAVEN’T WATCHED THE CATFISH SHOW YET, THEN STOP READING THIS RIGHT NOW AND GO WATCH IT.

I AM GOING TO SPOIL THE SHIT OUT OF THIS FOR YOU, AND IF YOU DON’T LIKE SPOILERS STOP NOW.

OKAY, here we go….

Oh, you want some spoilers? Okay, here’s your synopsis of this insanity: two 13-year-old kids (Owen and Lauren) started dating, and soon after they started receiving horrible, disgusting, anonymous text messages. The messages were so graphic and sexual in nature, it was weird. They seemed so mature for two young kids. But it had to be someone they knew, because the texter would tell them things that only someone close to them would know. And when the texter wasn’t bragging about their torrid affair with 13-year-old Owen, the texter was telling the young girl she was hideously ugly and should kill herself.

Nice, right?

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