Remember this video from yesterday? A man showed off a spider crawling out of his ear? It turns out, it was all a hoax, made by Hollywood effects expert Bruce Branit. What a prank, he played on us all.

Basically, it looked like a small spider crawling out to get some fresh air from his ear. He claimed he got it from swimming in a lake.

The video quickly went viral, because, why wouldn't it?!

Branit fessed up on the clever effects in a blog post on his website.

“Okay. So, yeah. I don’t really have a spider in my ear. I did have a hell-of-a case of swimmers ear and that was the inspiration,” he wrote.