Older people pretending to be young and returning to high school has long been a trope, from the original 21 Jump Street through Never Been Kissed through the 30 Rock episode that sparked the “How do you do, fellow kids?” meme, but it does actually happen sometimes.
The latest case in point comes from the problematic story of Sidney Bouvier Gilstrap-Portley, a 25-year-old who posed as a 17-year-old homeless Hurricane Harvey survivor named Rashun Richardson over the last nine months, playing high school basketball again and dating a 14-year-old girl before he was arrested last week on a charge of tampering with government records.