A senior writer for Newsweek who accidentally revealed he was scouring Japanese animated pornography claims he was merely searching online with his adult sons to prove to his wife that “tentacle porn” was real.

Kurt Eichenwald, who is also a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, posted an image of an anti-Semitic flyer on Twitter on Wednesday after he “mean-tweeted” Fox News host Tucker Carlson earlier in the day, attacking his ratings. But when Eichenwald tweeted an image of the flyer to prove its authenticity, he also exposed his apparent interest in hypersexualized anime.

Yah, crappy photoshop Max. Unfortunately, no, this is what I got today. pic.twitter.com/jmi1U4wLUd — Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) June 8, 2017

“Sigh,” Eichenwald tweeted Thursday to explain the gaffe. “Ok, I’m a dumbass. Believe it or not, my kids & I were trying to convince my wife that ‘tentacle porn’ existed. I tried to find some to show her it was real. But I couldn’t find any — & ended up w/ this. My family reads my twitter feed, so they know this is true.”

Eichenwald even posted a purported text message exchange with his wife asking her about the incident in an attempt to clear up any confusion, reiterating that his account was not hacked.

“Theresa … I’m sorry, this is a stupid question,” the message read. “Were our (adult) sons and I trying to prove to you that tentacle porn exists?”

“Yes,” a reply read. “Still amazes me.”

Eichenwald downplayed the accidental exposure, claiming he doesn’t understand all the hoopla about the internet tab labeled “B-Chiku,” a page devoted to hentai, a sexualized genre of Japanese anime.

“While hentai (until now, I thought it was called manga) was on screen as part of search to prove 2 my wife tentacle porn exists, what diff would it make?” Eichenwald wrote on Twitter. “Seriously, while I don’t see the appeal of cartoon [porn], porn is a multi-billion industry. [People] obviously look at it.”

News of the gaffe created quite a stir on Twitter, where some users suggested that Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey step in and stop Eichenwald from continuing his explanation, calling it an “emergency” situation. Others said the revelation was bigger news than the UK’s general election or former FBI Director James Comey testifying before Congress, while one blasted Eichenwald’s explanation as the “craziest f—king approach” to crisis management ever.

Eichenwald, for his part, had enough of explaining his side after several tweets.

“I’ve got nothing left to say about this,” he posted Thursday. “Believe what I say or don’t. Think my family has odd conversations (we do) or don’t. So it goes.”

Eichenwald — who lives in Dallas with his wife and three children, according to his blog — made headlines in March after a man was arrested who allegedly sent him a flashing strobe-light message on Twitter that caused him to have a seizure.

Eichenwald said he received the flashing tweet in December after a heated appearance on Fox News with Carlson.