User blog comment:Gundam Legilis/Diary 2/@comment-3146930-20140404193317/@comment-1173941-20140404204035

He clearly backed off on that, some time last year. Probably because most anime fans were pretty much mad at the notion that something like RWBY, created in Not-Japan, was being called an Anime. (The same sort of hate is directed at shows like Avatar, because of how some fans believe it's anime)

Point being, him saying it NOW is not news.