I got catfished AGAIN

I have some bad news about the Japanese

girl I was supposed to meet yesterday.

Turns out she was fake after all.

Yesterday afternoon, she messaged me

saying that she was going home to pick up

her luggage, and then after that, her

profile just vanished again and her name

changed to Instagrammer, same as before,

and then I didn't hear from her

afterwards. And I feel so stupid that I

believed her the first time she said her

profile got deleted by her boyfriend.

I can't believe I actually believed her.

I knew it sounded fishy, but I really

wanted to believe that that was what

actually happened. And then she did the

exact same thing again. And then guess

what? Next time, maybe today or tomorrow,

she'll come back to Instagram with a new

account saying Oh, my boyfriend found out

I was going to go to Korea and then he

deleted my account again. Yeah, well, I'm

not falling for it again. You tricked me

once. You're not going to trick me a

second time. So if she does come back to

Instagram with a new account and then she

tries giving me another BS story, I'm just

going to tell her to fuck off and then I'm

going to block her because I'm done.

Finished. Finished with being messed

around. I believed her in

the first place because, well,

I guess I just wanted her to be real

because it would have been so great if she

was real. I kept thinking to myself, how

great would it be if I had someone to

share this Airbnb with, someone to spend

time with? And she seemed like the perfect

person to share time with, to spend

time with. But I guess it turns

out it was too good to be true. I just

feel so stupid that I let her lead me on

like that and I let her trick me.

I was just really hoping that it was real

and she was really going to come and we

would have a nice time together because I

don't really have many options left right

now. When I was in Japan before I left my

wife, I thought leaving would be a great

thing because I had all of these girls

that wanted to meet up, and I thought it

would lead somewhere interesting. But I

don't really have any more options left

now. The main reason why I felt so

motivated to leave in the first place was

because of the Essex girl. We were talking

and chatting about meeting up somewhere in

Asia to go on a trip together, and I

thought maybe she was still interested in

me. Otherwise, why would she be talking to

me about going on a trip together. And

then all of a sudden she just kind of lost

interest in talking to me. And now it's

been about 6 or 7 days since she last

messaged me, and she doesn't even talk to

me unless I ask her a question. And then

even if I ask her a question, it takes her

several days until she even replies. She

says she's busy, but I don't believe

anyone could be so busy that they don't

even have 2 seconds in a day to be able to

respond to a message. It's just weird

because we were chatting for weeks and she

would just randomly send me pictures of

herself without me even asking her to send

me pictures of herself. I mean, why would

she send me pictures of her face and other

areas unless she

was interested in me? I thought she was,

you know, trying to seduce me or

something, but now it's just like she's

completely lost completely lost interest

in me, and I feel kind of fed up chasing

her because it seems like a waste of time.

I keep trying to start conversations and

then she'll just reply with very short

answers. And then next we have the French

girl who was the, the girl wearing the

mask in the I Met a Girl in Korea video.

No, she wasn't Korean. She wasn't Asian.

I didn't even say she was Korean. I just

said I met a girl in Korea. Well, I

thought maybe she would be interested in

me in that way, but she made it extremely

clear that she only wanted to be friends

with me. So that's not really going to

lead anywhere. And then there was this

Korean girl I met a few days ago.

I didn't even film any video because

nothing interesting happened and I wasn't

really feeling in the mood. Well, we just

walked around for a few hours. We chatted,

but I didn't really feel like there was

any spark between us, and she didn't

really seem interested in me. So that

was a dead end. And then the last,

last option, last hope I had was that

Japanese girl. When she started messaging

me for the first time, I was so happy

because it's like one of my wildest

fantasies for a cute young Japanese girl

to be interested in me. One of

my favorite animes of all time is Welcome

to the NHK. I'll write it down for

And it's an anime about this guy,

and he's in his mid-20s or late 20s,

and he's basically like me. He's got no

job, no friends, no social life. He just

sits in his apartment all day long and

he's really depressed. And then all of a

sudden this girl comes along, this cute

girl, and she wants to save him and help

him become a better person. And I guess

that's kind of what I've been looking for

for the last 12 years. And when I started

getting messages from that Japanese girl,

it kind of made me feel like she was the

one that could helped me turn my

life around. And when I heard her voice,

she just sounded so cute and sweet and

genuine. I just can't believe someone so

cute and innocent sounding would be

capable of tricking me like that, doing

something so cruel, giving a

man hope like that and then just crushing

him. I guess it was just a game to her,

you know, a bit of fun. Maybe even

revenge. Maybe she hated me for what

I've done in the past and she wanted to

get some kind of revenge against me.

It's just strange, you know. I'm used to

guys doing this kind of stuff because,

you know, men are kind of weird. But when

I think of women, I don't really

imagine them doing stuff like this. You

might be thinking, why don't you just use

Tinder? Well, I am, but I'm just not

having much luck on it. I matched about 5

or 6 people. A few of them unmatched me

straight away. A few of them don't even

reply. It's just very difficult. In Japan,

I didn't really have too much problems on

Tinder. I could find— I could quite easily

find someone to meet up with. But in

Korea, I don't know if Korean girls'

standards are just much higher or if

Korean girls just don't really use Tinder

much. But I'm just not having any luck on

these dating applications. I don't really

have anyone from the channel who wants to

meet me. I guess I'm just looking for

something romantic, something exciting,

something physical, not just friendship.

It's funny because the very same thing

happened about 2 years ago. Not sure if

you remember this video I made where I was

wearing a beanie and I took my glasses off

and I talked about how this, this guy was

pretending to be an Australian Japanese

girl. And then he was messaging me talking

about coming to Japan to see me. And it

was just some weirdo American guy from

Reddit trolling me. And I even sent him— I

sent him pictures of myself.

I don't know if he still has them. And

then he threatened to use them against me.

And I felt really sad when I found out he

was fake. He sent me a message saying that

he was actually a guy and he admitted to

it all. He said he tricked me and I fell

for it. And he's right, I did fall for it.

I completely fell for it. And I

felt like I lost someone because I thought

that that person actually existed. And

then when I found out it was a fake, It

was like that person's existence just kind

of vanished, and I felt like I lost

someone I knew. I know it sounds stupid

because she didn't exist in the first

place. It's just kind of weird how you can

create these emotional connections and

bonds with someone you think is real,

someone you want to be real, even though

you haven't even met her before and it

could be anyone. It's just weird how,

how your mind, how your brain can trick

you into feeling emotions like that.

So I don't really know what to do now. I

have— how much more time do I have in

Korea? I have about 2

months and 2

weeks left. I've only been here for 2

weeks. Feels like I've been here for ages.

So what I plan to do is, first of all, I

need to start looking for much cheaper

accommodation. And I've been looking at

Airbnbs that

only cost about $500 a month.

So I'll probably have to go into some

really tiny Airbnb, and I don't really

think that's a problem because I don't

need so much space. These current Airbnbs

I've been staying in they're expensive

because they're big. But at the end of the

day, all I do is I just sit on my bed with

my phone or my iPad, and I don't really

need all of this space. So I can probably

downgrade to a much smaller Airbnb

and save a lot of money. And when it comes

to meeting people, I don't know. I've been

having crazy ideas of going to bars or

going clubbing. Seeing, seeing if I could

talk to someone. When I was married,

I felt like I had all these options

available to me, and I felt like being

married was, was the wrong decision

because I wasn't making use of these

options I had. And then when I become

single, it's like the options start

disappearing one by one until

I don't really have any options left now.

Well, I guess I just have to be careful,

careful from now on. It's pretty easy for

someone to trick me. They just message me

on Instagram, say, hey Daniel, I like you,

let's meet up. I think from now on I'm

going to, to try and get proof,

you know, that better proof that they're

actually who they say they are. I'm

actually a little bit relieved because I

was getting scared of the idea of going

out at 1 AM, middle of the night, to meet

this Japanese girl who was supposed to be

coming to the train station. That could

have been pretty dangerous. I mean, she

could have had a guy with her and then

they could have beaten me up.

And at that time, I don't think many

people would be around to help me.

Yeah, it's just weird. I actually really

miss the Essex girl. When I was in Germany

last year and I was really lonely, we used

to talk all the time. We would talk for

hours and hours on the phone, voice chat.

And I don't usually find talking to women

very interesting, but with the Essex

girl, I felt like I could talk to her And

I felt like she was interested in me.

And she gave me this warm fuzzy feeling

that I crave so much all the time.

Sometimes I feel stupid that I didn't meet

her or go on a second date and I went

straight back to Japan so quickly. I felt

like I didn't even give her a chance. And

she was so patient with me. She came all

the way to London to see me.

I keep wondering to myself if we could

have been good together. Maybe she would

have been a— a good partner for me.

I guess we'll never know now.