You don't know but yet you immediately chalk it up to some conspiracy with...what as the desired result exactly? Occam's razor says this is a fuck up in a shill attempt, put forth at the exact time a dev makes an extremely questionable and recurrently unpopular move with an almost 100% track record of ending in a failed project. I also can't help but notice the dev only replying to posts trying to dismiss what happened, basically going "yes yes, that must itHow could I know? I'm sure it was someone who knew what he was doing though. No one is that stupid, so whoever did this definitely wanted to be found out (maybe to make people think the developer was the culprit and damage him).
Saying all of this is extremely suspicious is the understatement of the century.