Even after Natella's confirmations, serious coverage of This Man continued into the mid-2010s from publications like The Epoch Times and Vice magazine.[18] Both of them contacted the site, and Natella answered their questions as if the site was not a hoax.[18] His response to The Epoch Times did bring up others' claims of This Man being a marketing ploy but said they were from people who were afraid of the man.[18] He also claimed in that same response, "We are involved in a legal issue with the psychiatrist because of a phone call from a journalist.