Fanatical: The Catfishing of Tegan and Sara | Official Trailer

[@_ingens_]

Walking With A Ghost is the perfect soundtrack for the trailer. Can't wait to watch!

[@whothehellisthiskid3363]

Woah I had no idea this happened! Cant wait to see this.

[@haroldjoseph8296]

Nothing happened 😂

[@bbmcrae]

*whoa

[@bbmcrae]

@@haroldjoseph8296What’s that supposed to mean? Man, the internet is a weird place.

[@bernardsoul5186]

@@haroldjoseph8296no one asked you to describe your life 😊

[@Matrixvsreality]

Tegan and Sara have meant so much to the LGBT + community through their music, interaction, fashion and of course through their foundation. To name just a few. You have to be the lowest of the low character to catfish fans, to put that kind of stress on Tegan and Sara and forever change their lives. I hope you are able to catch them and prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law!!! ❤ sending so much love to all those affected!!

[@haroldjoseph8296]

I support the TV show Community.

[@Qtchalele]

hope everything’s okay now :/ i’m so sorry this happened to you, girls! lots of love ❤

[@lesbeyonceknowles9695]

Holy fuuuck this so intense. Y’all are so brave for telling this story. I will most definitely be watching.

[@caegcraft]

I'm also a twin. I've also had my identity stolen multiple times. Recently found out a stalker of over 10 years (weirdly I was with them in a group of friends the day I met Tegan and Sara at an SF pride...) had also taken over multiple of my best friends profiles including her moms and grandma's and proceeded to send them horrible pictures etc.. as well as pretend to be them on other apps. I had a feeling this was happening to me too and then the stalker finally admitted it, almost proud. There are no protection in the state my friend lives in and that is why I think they started to target her as well. This is so much more a common issue than people realize. It is disgusting and no one deserves to have their identity stolen, and to also be told "why does it even matter, it doesnt actually affect you" is the cherry of doom on top of the mountain of audacity these abusers reside upon. I'm so sorry this happened to you, and am eternally proud of you sticking up for yourself. ❤

[@visualheart]

Been a fan from the beginning and I had no idea! This is so disturbing. Hope all is okay now. 💜💜💜💜

[@JaNiTa_X86]

Can't help but feel compassion towards both of you, being a fan for years and enjoying your music and art somehow makes me feel very protective of you. Thank you for sharing such a painful and violent experience with us, I can only hope you guys have a peaceful happy life, you deserve it ❤

[@ijustexisted222]

I've had someone (or multiple people) doing this to me for over 3 years after I built a Supernatural fan group. The cyber stalking is still going on daily and it's a ft nightmare. I can't wait to see this. I'm sorry you went through this too, it's absolute hell on earth and I can't really do much about it but I'm glad (hopefully you got it sorted out and are healing from it. It's terrifying. Sending you love. Thank you for sharing your story. ❤

[@coldnightair_2578]

I remember Tegan mentioned once someone posed as her on Facebook but I had no idea this ran this deep.

[@AnrupB]

My heart goes out to you, Tegan. 💕 I’m highly empathetic and have studied trauma informed practice, and I have been through a lot myself. I can’t even imagine how traumatizing this must have been and likely still is. I had no clue this was going on and I’ve been a fan ever since you went public from the contest you won! I’m so proud of you for making this experience public and to Sara for agreeing to it, otherwise I’m sure this wouldn’t have been made. Lots of love!! From Montreal 😎💜

[@CoWcOw356]

Holy crap, I didn’t realize how insane this was going to be. Cannot wait to watch

[@ntcssj]

This is devastating that this happened but I'm glad they're able to be speaking up about this now. Like how Chappell Roan has quickly become vocal about boundaries with fans in parasocial relationships with her, this speaks to hopefully an evolution of healthier boundaries in fandom communities and culture especially in these cases intersecting with queer women in music. I remember hearing rumors in the community in the early 2010s about how someone had been using a fake local hometown phone number to contact fans as Tegan but didn't know the depth of how far this had spiralled. This must've been the documentary that fans like myself had submitted fan media and memorabilia to a few years ago. It seemed like the documentary was pitched as just an overview of Tegan and Sara's career and fan community and then the narrative became about the impact of this catfishing. A truly toxic extreme flip side of a community/fandom based on artists that have influenced such positive impacts on so many people, myself included.

[@mindyanddeog2141]

Holy crap. 😮

[@j.l.9900]

I grew up with you both 🙌🏼 Violent story!😱 Many greetings from germany 🙏🏼

[@TimeBombxmd]

There was literally zero violence...

[@AndreaEdwardsNL]

Here's you two singing about how everything is awesome and working your butts off, doing real life stuff and quietly dealing with this misogyny. My heart hurts for you both, all of their victims. Ty for opening up about it, hopefully it'll help others as well. ❤

[@bonzaburger5531]

Misogyny? Sounds like you’re sexist

[@bernardsoul5186]

Misogyny? I mean, yeah, they must have dealt with that a lot, but that's not what the documentary is about

[@EmmeC43]

Just finished watching this, and I'm....wow.. 16 yrs+, too. I can imagine the emotional toll T & S are going through

[@koonexion]

Love you queens!

[@deathmetalpotato]

i wonder if this is why i met Sara several times on the 2007/2008 The Con tour for autographs, photos and brief chitchat but Tegan was never around. this makes me sick to my stomach, i hope the police found the person and put them behind bars.

[@no_you_hang_up]

Just watched this. Great documentary.

[@ColtonBrummell]

I love you two so much!

[@kapowjam3462]

Marking my calendar for this

[@heatherlovesteganandsara]

Whoa 😳 this looks amazing

[@PzzaDaHut66]

How crazy, I am so sorry this had happened and to my favorite musicians.

[@DysfunctionalBubble]

There were allot of rumors that Tegan and sara were always on the chat forums back in 07 -09. Mostly just wishful thinking from fans. But I guess the bad guy-gurl took advantage of that.

[@auroradmonkey]

I've been a long time fan, I was contacted by this fake Tegan but I can say that there were multiple people impersonating them. I don't know if they will talk about it in the doc. I just wanna say something: the fandom culture is very toxic sometimes. We need to talk about it. And I'm embarrassed because in this fandom sometimes I acted in inappropriate ways, always trying to know more about their personal life, reading for hours the L chat forum, such a toxic place. And on Twitter some things were really off sometimes, always treating them more as idols than human beings. All the dramas. Always trying to know more. I know I was very young and many fans were really young... We need more education, we need to talk about this stuff. That's the reason why I probably drifted away from the fandom culture when I grew up. Ps: obviously it wasn't always like this, I've known some wonderful people through this fandom.

[@cybercassie]

Daaaaang.

[@phoenixmoon3]

I can’t wait. I love them so much.

[@AnthonyPi1999]

Finally watched the doc yesterday. Very well done. Although you’re both wrong, “Tara” was definitely a Fegan (probably the original).

[@bernardsoul5186]

How are you so sure when the people who investigated it for years came to the conclusion that it wasn't?

[@junkfoodguy]

grea doc disappointin endin hopin to see whoever was catfsshin hhem

[@kblixt]

Looks interesting

[@Kaolenka]

😮😮😮 tengo que ver esto

[@NeonKodiak]

this is wild!!!

[@carolefletcher]

Christ, I had no idea about this. Would love to see it, when it becomes available in France.

[@tbabys1]

Oh wow! I'm so sorry this happened, I can't imagine how scary that was!

[@emma-leejacobi3962]

Ohh 15 year old me in love with Tegan and Sara is so happy for the 32year old documentary obsessed me haha

[@justjordan8018]

Dear lord, even hackers were spreading info about them. Mean while I listened to them for many years just imagining what they are like, thinking: They are suburban house wives, that got boarded from family life and burned out together to start their own band. They made sure they honor their child by having it speak to the stereo microphone like any mom would and put that in their song. Seriously I have an entire alternate reality for them in my head, based purely on my imagination and their songs :) It's magical. Then I saw them on the Oscars, ah they are OK, but my expectations were just way too high for them to manage, they are not even dating. Well sure it makes sense in their Altreality cause they twins and all, but I like mine better :)

[@whatheavensaid]

Oh noooooooo!! 😢

[@heiselijah4676]

WOWW

[@hannahthewhat]

ohhhhhh divas we are eating today. cant WAIT for this!!

[@alice_hml]

Damn I had no idea!

[@insideoli]

Está chido 🎉

[@redplague]

This wasn't a secret. This was common knowledge on a message board I used to frequent around the Hearthrob era. Can't remember what it was called but it was something like the L Board or something. A lot of the hacked songs were actually posted on there. Looking back some of the stuff on there was creepy, like basically exposing the St Vincent Cara relationship before the tabloids knew about it. Wouldn't surprise me if the hacker frequented the board as well. Edit - It was called The L Chat.

[@car1475.]

Wasn’t it called the tns forum? It was like an actual forum? One of the only few.

[@redplague]

@@car1475. I don't think so as this forum wasn't just dedicated to T&S it was to anyone who was a lesbian or even women that people suspected or hoped were lesbians. I found an old link in my 'favourites' and it;s a dead link but it goes to 'zetaboards' which might have been the name of it.

[@emu287]

Crazy! Hopefully this will be available in the UK?

[@soosse]

Where can I watch this? I live in Finland.

[@giiiddyup]

Who was the perp?

[@DanielThureskog]

The perp was referred to as Fegan in the documentary, but Fegan's real name or identity has never been disclosed.

[@junkfoodguy]

@@DanielThureskog fegan lived in uk

[@frawgy]

*damn…. This looks good but also terrible to know it happened* 😞😞😞😞😞

[@Diotima1]

💙

[@drerock7683]

Holy shit

[@meaghanmaclellan]

Where the heck can I watch this in Canada???

[@junkfoodguy]

disny plius

[@mere_cat]

Ugh, I feel sick. Hope they caught the MFer!

[@sabrinay9430]

How can someone have so much time and energy to do this to people? Weird😮

[@M4r7s0l]

Oh my!!! What?!

[@Gripstress]

Omggggg

[@paulstanford7535]

Aaaahahahahahaha!

[@Johany_Lizcano]

😝😝😝

[@DysfunctionalBubble]

Also, Tegan siders must be more gullible. Lol

[@Project32HMT32]

I really hope things are better now... God bless you both

[@KatesAccount]

welp guess i gotta give disney my left arm to be able to watch this.. anyone know any other way to watch? only on disney+

[@bernardsoul5186]

You mean Hulu

[@vampsprite69]

what the FUCKKKKK this is insane

[@BK_ZERO]

what the fuck?!

[@g7924]

????????????????????

[@SO-if3yn]

This seems gay.

[@conceptualelegance]

so .. why cant it be her :) lying now

[@dontgoaway0]

It’s funny that this all happened the same time they destroyed their own careers and credibility with their post-sainthood work.

[@gpg000]

Omg! Care to elaborate? Sainthood was the last album I really got into and it’s making some sense but I still don’t know why!

[@junkfoodguy]

falsehoodstatement

[@bernardsoul5186]

First of all, this started happening before the release of The Con, and second of all they still sell out and have more fans than before so...how's your musical career? I mean, you think any artist very content with themself would even feel the urge to write a troll comment? Have you just given up, like, is this who you decided you are now?

[@OxygenTheef]

The most jaw droppingly BORING Documentary I've ever watched in my life. Waiting and Waiting for it to get interesting and it was like watching grass grow. It's one of those films where the trailer was better than the movie.

[@MovableNu]

So I’ve been friends and occasional roommates with lesbians, thus I know of y’all by osmosis. But this sounds incredibly chilling! My friends and associates found great comfort in the community y’all cultivated. I’m so sorry folks used that connected safe space for nefarious purposes. I hope everyone has been able to find healing ❤️‍🩹

[@shannon5716]

Holy shit