Tegan and Sara are the topics of Hulu’s newest documentary providing.
On Thursday, Sept. 26, PEOPLE is completely premiering the trailer for Hulu’s Fanatical: The Catfishing of Tegan and Sara.
The trailer opens with a fast intro to the acclaimed Canadian twin musical duo comprised of Tegan and Sara Quin, each of whom determine as homosexual. Many LGBTQ+ followers discovered neighborhood collectively and with Tegan herself — or so that they thought. By a sequence of leaks in 2011, it was revealed that followers weren’t really corresponding with the singer-songwriter, however slightly a catfish.
Directed by Erin Lee Carr (Stormy, I Love You, Now Die, Mommy Useless & Dearest, Britney vs Spears), Fanatical dives into the advanced rabbit gap of how Tegan’s catfish grew to become entangled with the duo’s fervent fan neighborhood.
Pretend Tegan, dubbed as “Fegan,” opened up a security concern as followers and the band alike realized they’d entry to actual Tegan’s private info, paperwork, private well being data and even the fan’s figuring out info resembling their addresses.
“It launched the concept that it is somebody we all know,” Tegan says within the clip. This degree of invasiveness led to her turning into suspicious of everybody in her life, together with her then-girlfriend and their closest mates.
All through the documentary, Carr and the twins present how deep the catfishing scheme went as extra followers got here ahead with their very own experiences divulging their feelings to what turned out to be a faux account. Followers alleged that they had been in years-long correspondence with Fegan, with one claiming that the 2 had been in a romantic relationship.
“Pretend Tegan systematically destroyed my life,” Tegan confessed.
Fanatical dives into the advanced world of parasocial relationships amid the murky early phases of social media and fan communities, in addition to the exploitation of weak communities by the hands of a hacker and stalker.
Fanatical: The Catfishing of Tegan and Sara premieres on Hulu on Oct. 18.