Netflix’s Catfishing Documentary Sweet Bobby [Video]

A woman who was in an eight-year online relationship with a man who turned out to be her female cousin is hoping Sweet Bobby, her new documentary out Oct. 16, will empower other victims of catfishing to seek help.

Kirat Assi, who was in a years-long fake relationship with a man she believed to be named Bobby, adapted Sweet Bobby from her hit 2021 podcast about the ordeal. The film is pieced together through screenshots of messages she had with Bobby and interviews with family members who watched her suffer for years.

“I’m not looking for sympathy,” Assi says in the doc. “I’m looking for people to say this is wrong, we need to be making people accountable.”

A brief history of catfishing

“Catfishing” usually refers to people who create fake personalities to trick people into having romantic relationships with them online. Catfishers typically carry out the entire relationship on the internet and find …