The hosts behind MTV’s very popular Catfish have warned viewers that this new season will be a good one!
Talking with BuzzFeed, Nev Schulman and Max Joseph say that there are still catfish stories that need to be told. “We think it’s good news that, ultimately, it has been harder to find stories this season, because people are smarter about getting catfished,” Joseph said.
Since catfish targets have become more aware of being catfished, catfishers have been forced to step their game up.
As Schulman put it, Catfish is widening its scope in Season 3, with the weekly stories no longer being limited to the territory of online crushes.
“A lot of the stories that we’re investigating and dealing with this season are about more real-world catfish,” he said. “[The catfishers] involve real people, and connect them to each other and get physical things to happen — people to go places, money to be sent. It’s not just the romantic catfish anymore. It’s really about the many different ways people can, when they put their minds to it, manipulate and take advantage of other people in the real world using the internet.”
So how dark will this season be?! According to Joseph, very! “These aren’t all romantic stories. In some of these instances, people have catfished an entire town,” he said. “There’s also a lot more cyberbulling this season as well, and people who are using catfish profiles for a lot of different motives, not just to seduce people and fall in love with people, but also to use them and turn people against each other.
The third season of Catfish premieres on MTV on May 7.
