The Hulu documentary takes a peek at the origins of intrusive online fandoms at the start of online fan culture.

After being impersonated online for 16 years, Tegan Quin of the indie pop duo looks for clues in a new documentary, “Fanatical: The Catfishing of Tegan and Sara.”

While most people today would immediately dismiss a message supposedly from a celebrity, at the time, it seemed possible that Tegan might email fans. It was the aughts, not every

Tegan and Sara’s Tegan Quin and director Erin Lee Carr exclusively spoke to Us Weekly about their new documentary, ‘Fanatical’

Despite making the case that celebrities are complex human beings just like the rest of us, this documentary lacks a human touch.

Fanatical: The Catfishing of Tegan and Sara, a new documentary chronicling how a hacker stole an indie rocker's identity and has been impersonating them for more than a decade, debuted Friday (Oct. 18) on Hulu.

By the time suspicious fans began to approach the real Tegan’s management, this had been going on for years, traced back at least in part to a phishing attack on Tegan’s tattoo artist. The catfisher seemed to lack the will or the skill to go after the Quins’ finances,