But we really believe it's not important. Patient zero is just the first patient we discovered, not the first who dreamt this man."[18] However, Vice, on the same day they published their interview with Natella, released an announcement to its readers that This Man was not real: "we run a story, it turns out to be something that was denounced in 2009 and could be easily verified as fake with a single google, a few people call us dickheads and the editorial team drown in their own tears."[19]