A woman got stalked, harassed, and catfished for years by a woman who tricked her into thinking that multiple made-up people existed. That woman’s name is Jessica Polly, and she’s been lambasted on the internet for serial stalking since 2007, something that’s rocked and ruined countless women’s mental health.
In a video with over 157,000 views, @Okfineillmakeatiktokok shared her alleged experience with Polly, who created a complex web of lies that deceived her for years.
Meeting Polly
@Okfineillmakeatiktokok first met Polly around 2020 after connecting with a man on a dating app who didn’t live in the Nashville area. She was supposed to meet up with “Brody,” his cousin “Matt,” and his girlfriend, Polly. But “Brody” fell ill with COVID-19 and could no longer pick her up from the airport or spend time with her. Polly ended up filling in, chatting with @Okfineillmakeatiktokok and spending time with her while “Brody” recovered. From there, the two spent about two weeks together, closely bonding. @Okfineillmakeatiktokok thought that she had made a “lifelong” friend in Polly, as they got along extremely well.
Around the same time, both women had unstable living conditions and needed to move into a new lease. For @Okfineillmakeatiktokok, her lease had just ended. She was living with her parents temporarily while looking for a new living situation. In contrast, Polly said that her home environment was bad for her son, prompting the two to consider being roommates. They ended up signing a lease in a nice neighborhood with good schools for Polly’s son, a win-win situation.
Or so @Okfineillmakeatiktokok thought.
A rocky roommate
When @Okfineillmakeatiktokok moved in with Polly, things started to get bumpy. First, Polly had to work late-night shifts, which ended up leaving her child in @Okfineillmakeatiktokok’s care. That put an extra strain on the Nashville native, who worked from home and felt somewhat out of place parenting someone else’s child.
Then, Polly started making petty comments whenever @Okfineillmakeatiktokok would hang out with any of her other friends. She would criticize @Okfineillmakeatiktokok for using Bumble BFF or getting outside. The roommates had long chats about Polly’s childhood trauma and abandonment wounds, which, in some ways, made @Okfineillmakeatiktokok feel like she understood why Polly was behaving irrationally.
But that made @Okfineillmakeatiktokok stop hanging out with other people as a means of protecting their home’s peace.
At the same time, @Okfineillmakeatiktokok was still chatting with “Brody,” who became “more aggressive.” He would guilt-trip her continuously if she tried to leave the relationship and threaten her. @Okfineillmakeatiktokok wanted out, as she had never even spoken on the phone with “Brody” and felt cornered by him. Despite this, she was struggling to leave.
She had a constant stream of messages from people in “Brody’s” circle. Polly, “Matt,” and other family members started to become the only people she would regularly interact with after some time.
Polly also had @Okfineillmakeatiktokok move multiple times over the course of years, jumping around from place to place and never consistently staying in one area. That made it so that @Okfineillmakeatiktokok had a hard time making friends with neighbors or establishing actual roots.
The situation escalates
After moving into a new townhouse, @Okfineillmakeatiktokok had a “peeping tom” encounter, something particularly triggering for her as she had a similar incident happen in her past. Polly was incredibly dismissive of her, at this point becoming downright hostile in living situations. At the time, Polly was out of state and thought that @Okfineillmakeatiktokok was “losing [her] mind.”
In some ways, @Okfineillmakeatiktokok felt like she was. Polly had stripped her of every connection she had except herself and “Brody.” That had weighed on @Okfineillmakeatiktokok, but she still, at the very least, believed that everyone in that situation was real and actually talking to her.
But that changed quickly. It all came to a head when @Okfineillmakeatiktokok tried to connect to the Internet while at home and discovered that Polly deliberately switched off her access to their shared Wi-Fi router. @Okfineillmakeatiktokok went to a neighbor’s house to work for a little bit, chatting and drinking wine casually while completing her remote assignments.
She got suspicious and decided to look more into “Brody” while there. A hunch led her to PhoneValidator.com, which showed that “Brody”—along with all of his family members—had fake phone numbers.
That’s when she realized Polly had been catfishing her the entire time.
Confirming more about Polly
@Okfineillmakeatiktokok realized that Polly had been deceiving her for years. Often, she would text the TikToker as “Brody” from across the room, something that surprised and baffled her at the time.
She also had photos of “Brody” going back to middle school. @Okfineillmakeatiktokok later found out that Polly used photos of an acquaintance she had personally known, as she identified the man on social media and reached out to him after discovering Polly’s betrayal.
Over time, she came to understand that Polly was running multiple fake identities to isolate, gaslight, and control her.
Other friends of Polly’s had similar experiences. After recounting these incidents within Polly’s personal network, multiple women realized she had been serially catfishing them.
@Okfineillmakeatiktokok confronted Polly and took her to court over the situation, but Polly only got “a slap on the wrist.”
Since then, @Okfineillmakeatiktokok has tried to heal from the severe emotional and psychological abuse, alongside the deep betrayal trauma she endured. In 2025, she still has extreme hypervigilance and trust issues.
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Something Was Wrong—a podcast and the truth
In 2024, the podcast Something Was Wrong documented several of Polly’s catfishing encounters. Something Was Wrong detailed Polly’s actions across 10 full episodes, from “Brody’s” behavior to FBI calls.
“Brody” was a recurring figure for women affected by Polly’s actions. She often posed as “Brody,” soliciting nude photographs and engaging in intense love-bombing with multiple victims. Overall, she had four different former victims become roommates that she continued deceiving.
Polly crafted entire networks of fake identities, inventing various cousins, siblings, and even parents to maintain her deception. She routinely switched between these personas across Snapchat, Instagram, and text messages. When “Brody” seemed distant or unavailable, one of Polly’s other characters would reach out, which convinced her targets that “Brody” was real.
It’s unknown if Polly has continued catfishing others. But the podcast came with a change.org petition to hold Polly accountable for her catfishing in some way, shape, or form. That petition got over 12,000 signatures.
The Mary Sue has reached out to @Okfineillmakeatiktokok for comment. Polly was unavailable for comment.
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