He follows me on Twitter, it turns out, so I’ve asked him to verify his identity and comment on why he did what he did on stage, and will update if I hear back.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nOf course, what he said when he got up there was not tied to Hong Kong, and references to his \u201creformed orthodox rabbi Bill Clinton,\u201d while nonsense, does feel like it could be tied to some sort of anti-Semitic and Clinton- focused conspiracy of which there are a thousand variants online. Or he’s just a kid who’s trolling.<\/p>\n
But it’s more than trolling, because for Keighley and The Game Awards, a show that was last watched by 85 million people in 2021, this represents a serious security breach. While the kid just went up there and spouted nonsense, it’s easy to imagine a different scenario in which a troubled kid wandered up on stage in a bulky black coat during an event watched by tens of millions of people full of industry celebrities and things could have gone\u2026very badly, if he had ill-intent. There will have to be security overhauls after this, as well as an examination of how he was at the show in first place, how he was in a position to just walk on stage, why he was left up there so long and why he was even allowed to speak without his mic being cut.<\/p>\n
So, that’s what we know so far. It’s a kid who has done this sort of thing before but now, on the biggest stage in the industry. We’ll see what happens next from here, and I will update with any developments.<\/p>\n
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