Tegan and Sara Quin in Fanatical: The Catfishing of Tegan and Sara.
For nearly 15 years, the Canadian pop duo Tegan and Sara Quin have been quietly grappling with an elaborate catfishing scheme that started when Tegan discovered her identity had been stolen online.
"It's gross and embarrassing," she says about their experience with toxic fandom. "In the film, we briefly touch on it, but there were a lot of these die-hard fans that created an incest fanfiction page where they wrote about Sara and I having a sexual relationship with each other. And then that informs journalist questions. We would go on out and do interviews and people would be like, 'I've heard you guys do incest on stage.
Other victims refused to believe the truth, insisting that it was the real Tegan they were speaking to online. "They were unable to unravel that," Tegan says. "A lot of these victims went online and accused me of nefarious behavior grooming underage fans…. It was hard to have those conversations with people, to be like, 'Yeah, you're a victim, but then also, you victimized me.
The sisters have sought out solutions to protect their identities online, such as regularly changing their passwords, creating multiple new email accounts and consulting a security specialist, but nothing has worked.
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