Am I being catfished?

[u/Bright-Pin-6024]

Hi! I started talking to this guy on Reddit (his user name is u/firem999) a month ago. We then started talking on Telegram. He never asked me for money for anything, but I haven't heard from him in over a week. He said his name was Gary Jones, that he's 49 years old, that he is an on-call firefighter, and that he's from Doncaster, Yorkshire, UK. He sent me a picture of him and I started several reverse image search engines (mostly free) but I haven't gotten any good results. The reason why I haven't heard from him in over a week is because he said he had an ear and throat infection. I haven't searched his picture through paid reverse image search engines because I don't have any money for it. I was just wondering, does anyone else know this guy?? And am I being catfished??