Dating apps help us stay connected to our romantic interests & pursuits in a thrilling way. Waiting for the next textback or forming honest connections with potential soulmates – or hookups – whichever way you choose to play it.
That’s probably the healthy way of using Tan Tan – China’s most popular Tinder lookalike dating app – with a similar ‘swipe left or right to show interest’ interface.
This intrepid alleged catfish-cheating story, however, has so many twists and turns, it may just go down in history as one of the most salacious to hit Singapore in recent days.
Facebook user Mr Justin Wong spills the tea on this story in a viral series of photos about one casanova’s attempt to “cheat on his girlfriend” leading to wild allegations of catfishing, and a surprising final twist.
The story begins on Saturday (9 May), when a female user was pinged by someone named ‘Dom’, claiming to be a 19-year-old male, Gemini, who was 171 cm tall.
At least according to his dating profile set up on Tan Tan.
A screenshot was uploaded of his first texts to her, which showed requests to “hookup”, offering “ice cream” in exchange, often in the wee hours of the morning from 12.40am to 3.30am.
The girl expressed that she was uncomfortable and couldn’t “trust” him enough to “hookup” as she didn’t know how he looked like.
‘Dom’ continued his suggestive line of questioning, alluding to the fact that he was “7 inches” long.
When Dom’s alleged girth did not impress the girl, who believed “looks were more important”, he asked if she would reconsider his proposition if he “looked good” for her.
Instead, she questioned if his profile picture was a genuine picture of him.
Dom admitted that he wasn’t using a ‘real picture’ but looked “somewhat similar” to the pic. He asserted that he wouldn’t use a picture that was “totally different looking”.
At some point, Mr Wong uploaded the Tan Tan exchange on Facebook. He also claimed that Dom’s girlfriend contacted his girlfriend to share that her boyfriend – the guy in the profile – had “cheated” on her before.
That’s when this strange twist happens.
The girl gets contacted by a stranger who requests for the Facebook post on the “Tan Tan app thingy” to be taken down.
The stranger also claims the image of ‘Dom’ used in the dating profile wasn’t him, but the work of a catfish. He or she adds that the guy pictured “didn’t…do any shit” and was “framed”.
For context, a catfish is someone who uploads a false online dating profile to entice others into starting romantic or sexual connections with them.
The OP holds her ground and says that the post will remain up, unless Dom’s girlfriend asks her to remove it.
The stranger says her actions constituted “harassment” as the Tan Tan post was trending. Concerned, the girl asks if ‘Dom’ had been “receiving threats”.
Apparently, the boy’s parents had “already reported” the case, to which the girl shares it was best to let the police investigate the matter.
That’s where the text exchange ends — the stranger alleging that the girl “started this” with her post, and her confirming her actions weren’t “harassment”.
Mr Wong then follows up on his post by spilling the tea on how this case concluded.
According to the texts, “the cheater admitted in the end”. If we were to take this as the truth, it would mean that ‘Dom’ was actually Dom all along.
And that when he was caught cheating on his girlfriend, he had asked a “friend” to help text the girl he hit on — claiming his identity had been stolen.
All for the sake of taking down the post.
No matter how this case concluded, we can be sure of one thing. Dom’s real identity had us invested from the start, as to whether he – or she – was a real person at all.
The lesson here is to always use dating apps with caution, and do due diligence to verify any details before agreeing to meet up in person or be ‘DTF’ with persistent suitors like ‘Dom’.
DTF referring to heading to Ding Tai Fung for dimsum, of course.
We’d love to hear what you thought of this alleged Tan Tan catfishing-cheating scandal in the comments below.
Featured image adapted from Facebook.
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