In today’s online world, lying is easy. In fact, 90 percent of people lie on their online dating profiles and can’t go even ten minutes without lying at least three times to a prospective date. On any given day, you are lied to as many as 200 times, according to the spot above.

“And if any of this shocks you, you are lying to yourself right now,” the voiceover intones.

That people need to be very wary when trying to hook people online is the point MTV’s Catfish, co-hosted by Nev Schulman and Max Joseph, has been famously making since it premiered on Nov. 12, 2012. Catfish is a term that describes people who emotionally hook other people by luring them with false, and usually more appealing, identities than their true ones. In an age marked by fake news, the series rings more true than ever.

Catfish returns for season seven on Wednesday, Jan. 3 at 10/9 c.

CREDITS

CMO MTV & VH1: Jacqueline Parkes

SVP Brand Creative: Thomas Berger

VP Brand Creative: Marissa Grasso

VP Design: Rich Tu

Associate Art Director: Sasha Safir-Temple

Senior Writer Producer: Jason Letkiewicz

Writer Producer: Katie Van Buren

Animator: Ethan Mackin

Animator: Magda Baez

Supervising Producer: Deb Bart

Producer: Jason Vogel

Production Manager: Electra Stratigaki

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