'My dumb idiot brother was getting blackmailed': Brothers beat blackmailing catfish at their own game

We're all pretending to be someone we're not. Whether it's putting on our "business persona" during office hours to conform to corporate life or trying to fit in with a new friend group—we all do some level of managing how we want to be perceived by others. 

Catfishes take this to another level, building an entirely new identity online to experience the thrill of being someone they're not or escape from their own reality—sometimes getting so deeply lost in it that there's no turning back. Usually, a catfish's intentions aren't nefarious (at least initially), but sometimes the catfish creates the persona from the get-go with the scam in mind.

In this story of petty revenge, shared to Reddit's classic subreddit community of the same name, Redditor u/dickwithshortlegs97 shared their story of how he intervened to save his brother from a catfish who was blackmailing his brother will illicit photos he had sent them.