When an individual participates in a dating site hookup only to discover that the other individual is substantially larger than you were initially led to believe.
When a “bigger” gal only takes pictures from the neck or chest up to appear skinny but in person she’s totally a bigger gal.
Danny: what’s up with you and that girl you met on tinder bro?
Nick: Oh her? Nah man she fatfished me. Totally got me dude. Nothing like her picture.
Danny: Damn bro that’s crazy! Shit...
When you match with a girl on Tinder thinking she's fit but then you scroll through to her last picture, only to see she's slightly on the bigger side.
Jim: "Guys, I got a new match on Tinder"
Jim: *Scrolls through new matches Tinder profile*
Jim: "FUCK! I've been Fatfished
Unlike catfished, where people are not as attractive as their pictures show their face to be ….fatfished is where they are at least 40 pounds more than their pictures inferred.
I met her for sushi. I didn’t know she was the heavyset woman sitting at the bar; so I waited and waited until she texted me that she was there. This woman was 300 pounds more than the woman I thought I was going on a date with —-now that I look back; I should’ve asked for body pictures on match.com. Now all my friends tell jokes about the time I was fatfished and spent $400 on sushi to feed the orca.