Scatfishing 

When you create a fake profile to deliberately catfish a piece of shit

After being ghosted by Ray after they spent a weekend together Danielle made a fake profile based on all of Ray's favourite things to scatfish him. "Ray is a piece of shit and deserved the scatfishing "

Scatfishing by Fozzie's Bear May 7, 2021

Sadfishing 

(Noun.) The practice of writing about one’s unhappiness or emotional problems on social media, especially in a vague way, in order to attract attention and sympathetic response.

David been sadfishing all day on Twitter.

Sadfishing by Jerry_Stil October 2, 2019

sadfishing 

someone who makes exaggerated claims about their emotional problems to gain sympathy, used especially by attention-seekers.

yo, that ''depressed'' guy gotta stop sadfishing!

sadfishing by jealousboy21 October 1, 2019

Sadfishing 

Sadfishing is the act of someone faking their mental health issues in order to gain attention/likes on social media.

Possible motivations: loneliness, curiosity, boredom

Kendall Jenner is a bitch, she's just sadfishing all the damn time!

Sadfishing by CryinNow October 6, 2019

Catfishing 

The phenomenon of internet predators that fabricate online identities and entire social circles to trick people into emotional/romantic relationships (over a long period of time).

Possible motivations: revenge, loneliness, curiosity, boredom

The term catfishing was inspired by the 2010 documentary "Catfish."

Gwen was worried that her online boyfriend was a phoney after she saw a TV program about Catfishing.

Catfishing by 2Sweet&Naive February 1, 2013

emotional catfishing

when a fuckboy establishes a connection with you to lure you in and then proceeds to expose their true fuckboy tendencies

I hate emotional catfishing I thought we had something for sure. turns out he just wanted to fuck me

emotional catfishing by anniesnotokay512 July 25, 2019

Sadfishing 

The act of posting depressing content about yourself unprompted in hopes you'll get pity and attention.

The comment section of any Psych2Go video is full of people sadfishing.

Sadfishing by LalalaAndy January 31, 2022