Nev Schulman and Catfish: The TV Show

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1984: Nev Schulman is born. Age 18: Nev gets a tramp stamp. 2025: Everything's Canceled podcast returns with a new episode "Nev Schulman and Catfish: The TV Show"! Your hosts Lorena and Herman are back to discuss the life and times of television host and filmmaker Yaniv "Nev" Schulman and answer the question: "Is Catfish canceled?" "Catfish" entered the cultural lexicon following the release of the hit documentary in 2010. Made by brother Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost, the film follows the story of Nev's online relationship with a fictional "catfish" whom he discovers is a deception created by an older woman posing online as her own daughter. Nev went on to host 8 seasons of a television series based on the film "Catfish: The TV Show" (2012) on MTV. In 2004 Nev attended Sarah Lawrence college, where he studied dance and photography and was expelled in 2006 following a violent incident at the school's "Sleaze Ball" dance, at which Schulman was accused of taking photos of LGBTQ couples without permission. In his 2014 book In Real Life: Love, Lies & Identity in the Digital Age Nev describes the incident as, "No big deal" saying, "I punched the person and ran off".  The victim described the incident differently saying, "I confronted him, and asked him to stop taking pictures... I tapped his shoulder and he turned and hit me out of nowhere, I went down and he held me in a head lock and repeatedly punched me while I tried to get free." After a student letter-writing campaign the university chose to expel Schulman despite his alumnus mother's influence at the college. A former administrator commented on Nev's legacy at the school saying, “All I can say on the record, as the former Assistant Dean of Student Affairs, is that he was a condescending, entitled, reprehensible tool.” After being expelled from college for a violent incident, Nev went to work at an anti domestic violence non-profit in New York run by his mother. Lorena covers Nev's own online presence, including occasions on which he has drawn criticism on Twitter for his reaction to the Ray Rice domestic violence incident and comments regarding the hashtag #blackgirlsrock. We discuss the circumstances of the romance between Nev and future wife/baby-mama Laura, universally reviled as the worst temporary co-host in a revolving series of temporary co-hosts on Catfish: The TV show. Sometime after Nev is canceled by black twitter, Miss Teen USA 2010 and Sports Illustrated swimsuit model Kameran "Kamie" Crawford joined Catfish as permanent co-host. However, recent events on social media have revealed that Kamie has since left the show. We discuss some ideological differences that may have created a rift between Nev and Kamie and attempt to answer the question: "Is Catfish canceled?". All this and more on this latest installment of Everything's Canceled podcast!

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