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๐ŸŽญ Netflix’s New Catfish Doc Is Sending Viewers Spiraling Here’s What “Unknown Number” Gets Right ๐Ÿ˜ฑ

  ๐ŸŽญ Netflix’s New Catfish Doc Is Sending Viewers Spiraling Here’s What “Unknown Number” Gets Right ๐Ÿ˜ฑ If you think your group chat drama is chaotic, wait until you watch a teen romance implode under a flood of anonymous messages, only for the alleged troll to turn out to be the last person anyone expected. Netflix’s “Unknown Number: The High School Catfish,” directed by Skye Borgman, is the kind of true-crime story that makes you pause the show and just stare at the wall for a minute. It is trending hard for a reason. The film unpacks a small-town Michigan case where two high schoolers were harassed for months by mystery numbers, the FBI got involved, and the ultimate reveal turned the story from whodunnit to how-could-this-happen. Viewers are now debating what counts as cyberbullying, what parental boundaries should look like in the age of burner apps, and where accountability ends and empathy begins. Let’s get the headline out of the way. The film is sitting at number one on th...