What do you do when you post a series of seriously misguided tweets about women’s bodies that go viral, leading people all over the world to know you only as “the meninist tampon guy?”

You backpedal and try to convince everyone it was all a hoax. Obviously.

That’s exactly what 19-year-old Ryan Williams has done in the wake of an international media frenzy.

Williams rose to infamy last month with tweets suggesting he wholeheartedly believes a) periods come from women’s bladders, and b) having your period is the same as weeing yourself.

Tampons should not be free, why does everyone keep saying they should be?? if u can’t control ur bladder then that’s not taxpayers problem! — Ryan ø (@ryanwilliams97) October 16, 2016

pay for ur own tampons if u can’t hold it until u get to a toilet. I don’t urinate everywhere and expect free nappies #selfcontrol — Ryan ø (@ryanwilliams97) October 16, 2016

His logic was bizarre to the point it clearly wasn’t a joke.

No one is that clever. No one.

But now, in an interview with The Tab, Williams says, “I wanted to tell you the truth about my tweets and that.”

“It was a hoax.”