Jake Bakkila, the artist who revealed himself as the real human behind the widely-beloved "spam" account @Horse_ebooks earlier this week, only to be confronted with accusations that he had manipulated and misled a journalist—to the point of "gaslighting"—who had uncovered a component of his project, says that "[t]he blame is 100% mine, I was wrong, and I'm sorry."

As though the saga of the internet's weirdest hoax wasn't weird enough already: A journalist nows claims she found out the art-pranksters behind YouTube series Pronunciation Book and the fake Twitter spambot Horse_ebooks—only to be lied to, manipulated, and "gaslit" for months by the two men and a circle of mutual friends.