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Schulman's own experience being deceived by an online relationship became the 2010 documentary Catfish, a film candid enough about his own credulity to give the word "catfishing" to the English language. He turned it into the long-running MTV series Catfish: The TV Show, which he still hosts and executive-produces, helping other people investigate the people they've fallen for online.