Der Dokumentarfilm Fanatical: The Catfishing of Tegan and Sara beleuchtet die düsteren Seiten von Fangemeinden am Beispiel des kanadischen Zwillings-Pop-Duos Tegan and Sara. Während die beiden bereits in den frühen Tagen von Social Media mit ihren Fans interagierten und eine sichere Plattform als Vertreter der queeren Community bieten wollten, nutzten einige Fans diese Offenheit aus: Fake-Profile wurden erstellt, die sich besonders oft als Tegan ausgaben und diese Machtposition aufs Übelste missbrauchten.
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00:00Ladies and gentlemen, Tegan and Sarah!
00:04I loved being in a band with my twin sister.
00:08We started making music in the late 90s,
00:09and by the mid-2000s, we were playing Coachella,
00:11we did Jay Leno, Letterman.
00:13Out of my mind, out of my mind.
00:18Tegan and Sarah were incredibly good at building community
00:20through burgeoning social media.
00:22Being a fan of Tegan and Sarah was code for I'm queer.
00:25It felt absolutely our responsibility
00:27to take care of them.
00:29It was very personable with everybody.
00:31Tegan and Sarah were known as being very accessible.
00:34We messaged Tegan, and we got a response.
00:37It was very exciting.
00:38Tegan added me as a friend on Facebook.
00:40I had become friends with Tegan,
00:42and it had become a long-term friendship.
00:46At some point, she sent me a shared drive and a password.
00:50It felt off.
00:51So I reached out to her management
00:53and got a text that said, she has no idea who you are.
00:56And I said, well, then Tegan has a big problem.
00:59In the beginning, we thought it was just a leak of a demo,
01:02and then we realized this hacker had access
01:05to Tegan and Sarah's personal information.
01:07This whole new, really scary universe opened up.
01:10I said who?
01:11Fake Tegan knew where we all lived.
01:13Email addresses had been hacked.
01:15They shared passport scans
01:16and knew their mom's medical history.
01:19It introduced the idea that it's someone we know
01:22coming after our friends, me and my girlfriend.
01:25That just made me question everyone around me.
01:27It was terrifying and scary.
01:28I was paranoid.
01:29The fear, of course, was the sort of physical safety.
01:32It got darker when we realized multiple fans
01:35had been catfished online
01:36and thought that they were talking to me.
01:40People came forward from all over the world
01:43saying they had been corresponding with Tegan for years.
01:46It escalated to a relationship.
01:47Yeah.
01:48It felt more sexual.
01:49It felt very real.
01:51It definitely left a mark on me.
01:52It turned my life upside down.
01:55We were extremely worried for our fans
01:56talking to this person.
01:57Then we got information that shook us again
02:00and our worlds exploded.
02:05We started to understand how little we really knew.
02:09Fake Tegan systematically destroyed my life.
02:14We kept this story a secret for a long time.
02:24We kept this story a secret for a long time.