Human Cent'eo?

LMAOLMAOLMAOLMAO

The interesting thing about Catfish, the movie, is that there is now a lot of speculation that it, itself, is a hoax/mockumentary.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catfish...ity_questioned

Its actually been going on for years, but the term "Catfish" is new.

I remember back in the old AOL, MIRC, ICQ chat days, girls and i guess guys too, would send pics of themselves that were not real, or were old from when they weighed 30 pounds less...etc.

I thought this while I was watching it.

Haven't seen the movie but the new show seems fake. I'd assume the movie is too.

well no ****ing shit ROFL

I've just never heard it referred to as "catfishing"

my ex-girlfriend and I "catfished" once and it was hilarious. Just can't believe it can happen TODAY to someone like Manti T'eo.

There has to be more to the story.

WTF?

haha! his gf is a mult.

There almost certainly is.

He should have gotten a fake bike. /Midnight Vulture

I knew this movie was fake the moment I saw the guy with the trampstamp lol

Just in case you're curious where the term comes from in the movie:

"Swarbrick said Notre Dame did not take the matter to the police, saying that the school left it up to Te'o and his family to do so. He added that Notre Dame did not plan to release the findings of its investigation.
"We had no idea of motive, and that was really significant to us. ... Was somebody trying to create an NCAA violation at the core of this? Was there somebody trying to impact the outcome of football games by manipulating the emotions of a key player? Was there an extortion request coming? When you match the lack of sort of detail we lacked until we got some help investigating it with the risk involved, it was clear to me until we knew more we had to just to continue to work to try to gather the facts," Swarbrick said.


Read More: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/col...#ixzz2IFz7oQfz

So ND is aware of this for about a month, thinks that one of its players might be blackmailed or subject to some type of criminal extortion, or someone is forcing the school into a NCAA violation yet they don't report any of it and now they are refusing to release anything about their investigation? Why is ND covering it up?

****ing Catholics

He's mormon.

and wtf? Would you say "****ing jews?"

EDIT: of course you would. you just will never admit it.

This recaps some of the stuff I alluded to before about Te'o:

http://collegespun.com/big-east/notr...x#.UPguzqGjegP

I also think there's a fair amount of stuff to back the "duped" theory. The total lack of a plan, for instance. Because "Lie and cross your fingers that nobody involved in the sports journalism profession bothers to look into your story" really isn't much of one.

Or like how Deadspin says that this Lennay Kekua persona goes as far back as 2008, meaning we can safely assume that it wasn't created with the purpose of drumming up publicity for Te'o. Four years in advance? It was designed to scam people. And if Te'o was one of the victims, a woman would have had to be involved... and Reagan Mauia claims he met a woman (through Tuiasosopo, no less) claiming to be her. There's your woman on the phone.

I've been wrong many times, but I'm going with duped + shamelessly took advantage of the media's interest in her death, or duped + too embarrassed to admit to his family and everyone that he never actually met her.

I'm not so sure that it wasn't Notre Dame that started this whole thing. Te'o is just along for the ride as a willing participant.

My guess is that he was duped, and in retrospect, he created the memory of meeting her. Think how many people he must meet, especially after a game.

"Hey manti - we met after the stanford game."
"Yeah... I met a black haired girl. Right. RIGHT! Okay, sure, I remember."

I would. All religions are silly.

And Obama is a stockholder at Smith and Wesson, and he's just doing this to boost sales.

Here's the other thing about this (I basically agree w/ you) that would be plausible to explain some of this,

which is that he lied about certain elements about their relationship. IE he's bragged or whatever to some of his buddies about this chick and that she's his gf but doesn't want to sound like an idiot and admit they've never met and his encounters have all been on the internet (which is considered weird by a lot of people) so he throws some stuff out there that isn't true about meeting her in PA and that she's come to town to visit him when he was back home, etc.

IDK what the truth is but I think that is more plausible than they hatched a scheme yr(s) in advance to enhance a future Heisman campaign for a middle linebacker or that he's a homo banging some dude long distance on the down low and this ruse is a cover. If that's the case it would be 1000 times easier to get a few dates w/ some random chicks on campus and no one would ever question anything. Not that they necessarily would to begin w/ anyway.

You're so edgy.

Notre Dame Einstein

the "****ing catholics" post was obviously in reference to ND being a catholic school. and as I always like to say.....not one damn catholic on the entire team! :D

This is what it is looking like to me, which unfortunately for Te'o, makes him a dumbass and a liar.

Makes the most sense but I am still wait and see. Too weird and lots of layers.

Ah...gotcha. ****ing Catholics for covering it up. Yeah, that's really atrocious behavior. I mean, what kind of a piece of shit human would cover up an embarrassing story about someone they were institutionally responsible for.

I mean, it's not like Te'o was raping girls or molesting young boys, right? This is SERIOUS. HE had a FAKE ONLINE GIRLFRIEND.

THEY OWE US AN EXPLANATION.

:rolleyes:

Whatever stops people from saying "derp let's draft him #1."

Now, at number 34 or 65...:hmmm:

That ship sailed on Jan 7 save for in the minds of people screwing around on CP. Even w/o this story there is next to no chance of that happening.

I think his point is that the Catholic church and Catholic institutions have a history of trying to handle scandals internally which has bitten them in the ass in the past, and that one would think that they'd strive for more transparency to avoid the sort of reaction that the poster gave of "****ing catholics."

I can understand why they would in this situation particularly if they believe MT which it seems by all indications that they do. What is to be gained for ND by going public?

I don't see the embarrassment for MT or the school being markedly different if they got out in front of it or not. If they fluke it up and it never gets out they save face for a kid that by all accounts is well liked by everyone that knows him.

well that's more than reasonable. Fair enough.

If you thought your star player was involved in an extortion plot, or some plot to create an NCAA violation, why not report it to the appropriate authority? Why not release your findings if Teo is the victim?

B/C it's really embarrassing and humiliating for the kid? He's a freaking laughingstock now. Unless he ends up being the next Ray Lewis in the pros he'll never live this down.

I am not saying I agree w/ how they handled it. I can just see why they did if they believed he was innocent in all this.

The fake dead girlfriend speaks again.

L K ‏<s>@</s>LennayKay I will be releasing a statement, via twitter, between 11am and noon today.

All times apparently PST.

In the Deadspin article, reporters Timothy Burke and Jack Dickey write that a woman named Donna Tei reached out to Schulman after she discovered someone involved with Kekua was using her pictures, a fact Schulman confirmed to MTV News.
"Someone tweeted at me, because she was trying to get ahold of me to help her with something related to her image being used in some kind of 'Catfish' hoax," he said. And, having just heard of the story, I went into my 'Catfish' email account, and I have an email from this said person from December that I had not seen, where she does ask for help in regards to someone who was using her picture to create a fake profile. So there's definitely a connection, and this person obviously knows of me and the show and was making an effort to somehow get to the bottom of this."

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/170...schulman.jhtml

Lol there's a tv show about "catfishing"? I had never even heard of it before yesterday.

No matter what this is the case...

I assumed that the "Cat" part of catfishing was a euphemism for pussy.

This.

And the fish part too

Im telling you. It wouldnt surprise me one bit if this person comes out and says it was all him playing a trick on Manti. Trying to save manti's image. But i really cant see a way Manti isnt a part of the whole thing...

I'm not white knighting him, I just understand Hawaii a lot more than you guys. It is definitely possible he didn't know. You can't judge people from here as if they were from the mainland. The culture is different here.

Who gives a shit about this whole thing?

1. Either he's lying, Notre Dame is lying, everyone is lying, and they made up a fictional person to get Notre Dame and Teo amped up as an organization/person overcoming tragedy then that's hilariously annoying, but not this newsworthy.

2. They're all telling the truth and this is the most underwhelming "news" story and Teo is unbelievably gullible, and its hard to believe that a guy who could have most women between 18-22, has to rely on a woman online that puts off meetings with you and you call your girlfriend. It's incredibly naive and immature like a 8 year old.

But this shouldn't be newsworthy, that bumped Lance Armstrongs interview with Oprah and even hostage situation in the middle east, it's pathetic, and the problem is it's everywhere and I can't get it off my radio/television.

Then why did he lie about physically meeting this girl?

This is some bullshit:
http://www.salon.com/2013/01/17/notr...uble_standard/

Pretty good read:

http://collegespun.com/big-east/notr...x#.UPhOKh3AdWL

And continue to lie after finding out she was fake?...

Because he's a piece of shit.

If it's all true and he was duped....then it was probably out of keeping an image. You have an "online girlfriend" for years and you've never met her? You tell people that she came to visit you in Hawaii while you were there.

I think it's the fact that the whole thing is so bizarre and surreal that makes it interesting (and, therefore, newsworthy). So many strange, ****ed up elements to it. And to think that everybody, especially the media, bought and sold the dead girlfriend story wholeheartedly during the season.

This is a compelling human interest story that suddenly exploded into a massive, mysterious cluster****. That's why people give a shit.

After all that why would I bother believing anything he had to say?...

You don't have to. Shit....I'm having a hard time.

LOL, seriously Notre Dame fans? There's a few people in that thread giving this ridiculous notion the time of day.

http://www.irishenvy.com/forums/lepr...-hoax-235.html

Te'o believes in the Patriot Way.

All I know is that when Te'o gets to training camp and opens his locker, he WILL find a blow up doll in there.

Dang! That's some serious shit.

I've seen that. Notre Dame fans are a lot like Chiefs fans. They're god damn reeruned.

One opinion is that a student at USC did this because Te'o didn't commit at USC. :facepalm:

That would be my prediction.

And the "ing" part. Not to get too graphic, but...well...you know.

A young man has a relationship with a girl he never met in person and bragged about said relationship and you don't see why he wouldn't want them to know he had never met her?

The fake dead girlfriend speaks:

L K ‏<s>@</s>LennayKay My statement: This is incredibly embarrassing to talk about, but I have been told by Alabama's offense that Manti Te'o is not real.

sigh,the lennay page has jokes

L K ‏@LennayKay

My statement: This is incredibly embarrassing to talk about, but I have been told by Alabama's offense that Manti Te'o is not real.

The only part I don't get is if Te'o really had no part of this.....and had an online relationship with this girl....why wouldn't he demand to come see her as soon as the whole "leukemia" part of the story came into play? You've been talking and "dating" for a year.....and she says that she's dying....you'd think that instantly you'd want to go see her before she's gone.

Oh, shit.

Break up with that bitch, T.

His family also lied then, because his dad said she visited them in Hawaii in the South Bend article.

I haven't come to any definitive conclusions but this makes as much sense as anything.

We all know naive gullible people. Why is it not possible that he is not one? B/c he plays fball?

And also maybe he is involved. The story is still developing. It will all come out.

Since Lennay's death, Te'o has been exchanging texts with McCluster's elusiveness.

I'm really shocked at people's gullibility in this case.

Manti Te'o is a liar.

The girl was a fabrication. Notre Dame knew about this fabrication at least since December, yet willingly played along, as to not disrupt the team's focus on the BCS Championship game.

Read the Deadspin articles. There is no question that he and Tuiasosopo perpetrated this hoax.

The question left to ask is "Why?".

Not necessarily.

MT makes up lie about her visiting him in Hawaii. Dad hears about it asks why she never met the fam. Oh, she wasn't here very long, was staying w/ friends, didn't have time, we met up at the beach etc and is none the wiser. The quotes I saw were about her vacationing w/ MT in Hawaii not about her attending family dinners, etc. If he has no reason to think son is lying he just repeats what he was told when asked.

It's all conjecture obv. I am just illustrating how something like that could possibly play out.

:D:clap:

This is not true. His father specifically said he had never met her in person.

You need to read this thread and all the press about this story more thoroughly. His father said they had hoped to meet her in October, but then she died before that could happen. He apparently had talked to her on the phone.

EDIT: I think the new tweet was from a fake account.

We'll probably never know. People are going to say that he used it as a push for the Heisman.....but that's a huge story being made up for something that isn't guaranteed. Especially a huge story that obviously is pretty easy to expose as false.

There is a lot of question about it, you are just too cynical to see it.

I seriously doubt that now that this is out.....that Tuiasosopo and Te'o are posting bullshit responses from her Twitter account. That thing would have went silent if they were running it.

Part of me still believes that he really is that dumb and was duped the whole time. There would be nothing to gain from this for him. It's easy as **** to expose as false and there would be no way that he could remove himself from it.

If he was punked, why did he talk about in detail numerous times about meeting her and spending time with her?

I believe this was perpetrated by Te'o and at some level ND too...you KNOW his story swayed voters in both the polls and the Heisman, it benefited both of them huge.

There's just no frickin way the best LB on the arguably the most recognized college in America had an internet girlfriend for THREE YEARS that he never saw in person...GTFO outta here.

This girl is supposedly the love of his life and he doesn't even go to the funeral? Sooooo many inconsistencies and things that make you shake your head about this.