Check out Social Catfish and you will immediately see that there are more than enough people out there to fall for this stuff. They have a YouTube channel and upload pretty frequently with new investigations. Hundreds of people thinking they are dating only fans models and actors. People will sometimes even ignore all the research that they are provided with and still insist that the person they are talking to is real. Loneliness (sometimes horniness) is a hell of a drug.
Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow. I’ve been playing through the Castlevania Advance collection on Steam and this is the next one up. I’m up to the fight with Death but he’s stomping me into the ground so I either need to level up some more or experiment with different souls.