Olivia Barker

USA TODAY

That old chestnut about the cover up being worse than the crime? Acknowledged plagiarist Shia LaBeouf just can't seem to stop.

As the Internets have proven over the last couple of days, his series of tweeted mea culpas for lifting material from comic book artist Daniel Clowes have all been seemingly, purposefully stolen from famous liars, ranters and no-do-gooders, including Eliot Spitzer, Russell Crowe and Alec Baldwin, not to mention a Celebrity Big Brother contestant and a porn star.

Entertainment Weekly, among many others, has branded him a troll for mocking the (albeit flawed) process of publicly apologizing via this piece of "terrible performance art."

And then today, the actor seemed to apologize for the fake apologies. Sort of:

You have my apologies for offending you for thinking I was being serious instead of accurately realizing I was mocking you.

— Shia LaBeouf (@thecampaignbook)

December 31, 2013

I am sorry for all the plagiarized tweets, they all were unintelligent, ambiguous and needlessly hurtful.

— Shia LaBeouf (@thecampaignbook)

December 31, 2013

2014 Resolution - I need to work on being a less controversial tweeter.

— Shia LaBeouf (@thecampaignbook)

December 31, 2013

Whatever his latest intentions, it seems the Twitterverse's beef with LaBeouf is far from over.