(ominous rock music)
- [Nev] Is that her?
- [Max] I'm so confused.
- All right, so in season seven our casting department
was contacted by a guy named Dylan, who'd fallen hard
for a model named Savenia, after meeting her on Facebook
five years earlier.
It turned out that Savenia had also reached out
to our casting department six months earlier.
She didn't tell him and he didn't tell her,
and they didn't realize that they'd both tried
to get in touch with "Catfish" to meet on the show.
So, obviously we took the case and the deeper we dug,
the more convinced we became that Savenia
was hiding something major.
Let's go back to her Facebook page.
Let's see if she's interacting with people
and find someone that seems like they know her
and send some messages.
So the first person we reached out to is this girl,
Colleen, because she had said, "Are you okay?
"You should come over."
So, that's sort of,
that seemed like someone she might know.
- Yeah. - In person.
And she called us.
- Okay.
- So this is where things start to get
a little bit less clear.
- Okay.
- We asked her if they're still in touch.
She's like, "Yeah, we still talk."
And I said, "Well, has she ever talked about
"or mentioned a guy named Dylan?"
And she's like, "No, I don't think so, but I think
"her sister Riley has mentioned somebody named Dylan."
And then she said, "Riley's older."
- [Dylan] Riley's older? "She's like 23, 24."
- Right, why would she start talking
to a 14-year-old when she herself was,
- 18. - [Max] 18.
- I'm confused, I'm thoroughly confused.
- It could be nothing, but who knows.
Right? - Yeah.
So, the next thing we did was, we went to Riley's page.
Here's what's crazy.
Savenia's number is listed as Riley's number on Facebook.
Now, you've talked to her on this number
and thought it was Savenia?
It's weird that the phone number comes back
to Riley's page and not Savenia's page.
- Yeah.
- Maybe, you've been talkin' to Riley this whole time.
- Sometimes Max and I really felt like big brothers
to people on the show, and in this case, for sure.
We really didn't want to see him get his heart broken.
Seem a little antsy.
- On the inside it's wreaking havoc.
I've always had this like, envision you see
when all these people meet online for the first time
and they're real, and they run up and hug each other,
and they're super excited.
I've always had that envisioned in my head.
And then now like,
learning all this it's just,
I don't know it's kind of breaking it down.
What's so bad that she's kept from me
for the past five years and she can't tell me?
- At the meet up, something happened that none of us
could have ever predicted.
Is that her?
- [Max] I'm so confused.
That's Savenia.
- [Nev] Wow!
- Hi.
(shaky breathing)
Hi!
(uplifting pop music)
(sobbing) Hi.
Hey,
hey.
Hi.
Hey.
Hi.
- Hey. - His brain has just exploded.
There's, like, nothing in there right now.
- So, what's the big secret?
- Uh.
Uh, the big secret is that, like.
You know, I posted a lot of photos of me looking
really good, like, Photoshopped.
And I, like, I'm not like that.
As you can see, I don't look like that.
- Shut up, you're beautiful.
(Dylan and Savenia crying)
- I was just really scared to meet you
because I'm a giant.
And I just...
- Who cares?
- And I'm sorry for laughing.
I'm just really nervous.
(laughing)
- So, the whole big secret is that, like,
you might look different in the pictures?
- I'm really self-conscious.
A lot of my photos are super Photoshopped.
I feel like I was Catfishing him.
My boobs are Photoshopped.
My butt's Photoshopped.
My face looks flawless.
I don't look human.
I look like a supermodel, and I'm not.
I'm really lanky and dorky and awkward.
And I just didn't want him to see that side of me, so.
- I kind of think we've hit the point, though,
in social media culture where we kind of just
expect that those photos, that you're
gonna look a little different
in real life, anyway. - You don't look
that different. - No.
- If I saw you, I would recognize you.
- Okay.
When I emailed you guys, I was only 17.
It was really a cry for help.
I wanted to meet him, and I didn't know how to do about it.
- [Nev] So, you're 18 now.
- Yes.
- And everything that Dylan knows about you
is exactly true. - Yes.
- Why does your sister's Facebook page
have your phone number on it?
- Because a year ago, I changed, like,
I needed a new phone 'cause my phone, like,
crapped the bed on me.
And I just took her phone, and we just never
really realized that it was still on her Facebook
until, like, now-ish.
So...
- And she never spoke to Dylan.
- No. I don't-- - So, it's been you the
whole time. - Yes.
- [Nev] Your profile. - Yes, it's me.
- [Nev] And your feelings for Dylan are--
- Extremely strong.
(crying) (uplifting rock music)
I'm trying to really put myself out here
and, like, be up front with you guys.
- The only person that it matters that you're
up front with is Dylan.
(crying)
Do you have any questions?
- I don't know what to say.
- Well, hey, I'm overjoyed. (Savenia laughs)
- Yeah.
- This just very rarely happens for us.
And that hug.
Ugh, that.
I think I remember they were, like, trembling.
They were so excited.
And then we followed up with them, you know,
a few weeks later, and they were together!
(yelling)
- What?
- What's up? - What's up?
- Wait a second.
- Where are you?
- We're in Virginia.
- Virginia?
- You already went down there? - Yeah, yeah!
Hi!
- [Nev] This is amazing!
We gotta get a whole update here.
So, what are you?
- Boyfriend and girlfriend. - Yeah.
- [Max] Yes! - Yeah, we got one!
(laughing)
I am so hopeful that they are still together.
Very excited to find out.
Haven't talked to them in a while.
So, let's find out.
- [Nev] Yo!
- How's it goin', dude?
- Let's catch up because I'm very curious, obviously.
And I think everybody wants to know
what the deal with you and Savenia?
- Uh, not together anymore.
- [Nev] Come on!
Wait, so how long did you and Savenia go out?
- (laughs) A couple months.
It's a lot different in person.
And there's a lot of personality traits and stuff
that, like, you don't really pick up
until you're in person, and--
- Wait, so you guys, wait, but you guys lived together.
- For, yeah, for a little while.
- And then how did it, so how did it end?
Was it a bad break up?
- No, it was mutual.
- Wow, so after seven years, things really just, like,
kinda dissolved and went away just like that?
You don't talk to her anymore?
- Nope.
- [Nev] Crazy.
All right, man, well, thanks for the update.
Glad you're doing well.
Good to see you.
- It was good to see you, man.
- And uh, yeah, good luck with everything.
- All right, thank you.
Have a good one, man. - Later, Dylan.
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