Sweet Bobby: My Catfish Nightmare

Sweet Bobby: My Catfish Nightmare (2024) is a British documentary you can watch online on iFILM. Director Lyttanya Shannon walks through one of the strangest online deceptions on record: London radio presenter Kirat Assi spent the better part of a decade texting and calling a man named Bobby she believed she would marry — except the Bobby she knew never existed.

The film follows the trail one piece at a time. Fake profiles by the dozen, borrowed photographs, invented illnesses and attacks, an entire cast of people who were never real, all orbiting a single victim. How do you doubt a voice on the phone that sounds exactly like the person you love? Shannon keeps the camera close to Kirat herself, and her account grips harder than fiction precisely because every part of it happened.

What makes it land is the bigger question underneath the con: how easily trust gets turned into a weapon, and why the victim ends up doubted too. Fans of crime non-fiction like The Tinder Swindler will find plenty here. Stream Sweet Bobby (2024) online on iFILM.