Can we all agree that this is Miley Cyrus' fault?

Mmm, did anyone notice Max flirting with Felisha's mother? "Do people think you're sisters?" Slick.

As soon as I saw Tracey I assumed she had been abused as a child. She displayed the telltale coping mechanism of managing to withdraw completely into her head and remove herself from reality. So much so that she became another person- modeled after Hannah Montanna. She seems to have used television and the internet as ways to further remove herself from the real world. I would guess that Tracey had some organic mental illness that was exacerbated by childhood abuse. It seems that once the abuse stopped and she was "safe" she became a bully herself. Cycle of abuse style. I don't believe that Tracey works anywhere. No way she could pass any job interview. Maybe one of her mother's friends allows her to come over and play with the kids while she's busy and still at home and they tell her she's babysitting (my parent's friends did this for me when I was not old enough to actually babysit, but they didn't want to entertain their kid's all day). That's the only explanation I can fathom for how she "works with children".

I'm a very happy person! Anyone who says this is definitely hiding some deep dark shit. If you're happy you don't have to say it, its just assumed that you are. I can't imagine having an abusive father who suddenly had a coma. Oh my god. The feelings Tracey must be scrambling to run from inside must be overwhelming. This child needs to be in a mental health facility.

Mom was giving typical Catfish excuses (sick kid). Methinks mom, like daughter is a liar. Perhaps they only got mom to agree to film based on not pressing charges? Mom didn't have a proportionate reaction- like daughter, she was checked out. At least she has some acquaintance with social norms and pretended to act horrified by her daughter and give Felesha a hug. I cracked up when she gave Nev that awkward hug. She did not want to that! Hubby would not have been pleased.

Mom presumably had a choice in marrying hubby. Tracey was a child who couldn't escape the abuse so she withdrew into television-fueled fantasies, and then later on it escalated to fake personas online.

Is it possible to feel empathy towards someone you feel is a horrible human being?

Also agree that Tracey watched the show, remembered some profile she had from middle school, and resurrected it in order to become infamous. How nice for Catfish to accommodate her by putting her on television. I almost thought they shouldn't have aired the episode because Tracey was so mentally ill. I don't even see how she could be held competent enough to sign a release form. Surely if her sanity were to be questioned in a court of law it would be determined to be MIA.

Found it so odd that they kept bleeping the name of the town. Even if it was a 3 person town consisting of only Tracey, her mother, her father and her invisible brother- they could have just named the next closest metropolitan area right? At one point the caption even ID'd them as being in Baltimore, MD.

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