{"id":152947,"date":"2022-12-09T15:50:58","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T15:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/so-who-is-the-game-awards-elden-ring-bill-clinton-kid\/"},"modified":"2022-12-09T15:50:58","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T15:50:58","slug":"so-who-is-the-game-awards-elden-ring-bill-clinton-kid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/so-who-is-the-game-awards-elden-ring-bill-clinton-kid\/","title":{"rendered":"So Who Is The Game Awards’ ‘Elden Ring’ Bill Clinton Kid?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Game Awards<\/p>\n

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Last night at The Game Awards, as many expected, Elden Ring took home Game of the Year in the final award of the night. But as director Hidetaka Miyazaki, his translator and team took the stage, something\u2026 weird was going on behind them.<\/p>\n

A kid was lurking there. A teen maybe. He looked out of place among the middle-aged Japanese men standing there, and on Twitter everyone was asking who exactly he was. One of their children?<\/p>\n

And then he took the microphone.<\/p>\n

The best transcript of what he said in some sort of unidentifiable accent is \u201cI think I want to thank everybody and say that\u2026 I think I want to nominate this award to my reformed orthodox rabbi bill Clinton, thank you everybody.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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At that point, it became clear he was not supposed to be there, and he was quickly ushered off stage. Geoff Keighley, organizer and host of The Game Awards, tweeted <\/a>shortly after that he had been arrested. And the internet then positively blew up with Elden Ring-based memes and jokes and just\u2026disbelief, trying to understand what they just saw.<\/p>\n

Here’s what we believe we know about this kid and what he was doing there, though I will refrain from posting his name as he appears to be a minor.<\/p>\n

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  • A Twitter account appearing to belong to the kid has posted about the interruption, taking credit. It’s an old account, tied to his past online activities which is mainly protesting police brutality and government oppression in Hong Kong.<\/li>\n
  • Previously, this kid did something similar in 2019 at BlizzCon where he interrupted a World of Warcraft panel by shouting \u201cFree Hong Kong.\u201d That is documented on this same Twitter account.<\/li>\n
  • Also in 2019, he was on TV at a Clippers game holding up a Hong Kong shirt that the cameraman had to pan away from:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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    • He has a TikTok that is mainly about Hong Kong, and at times, he has put on an accent similar to what we heard in this incoherent Game Awards speech.<\/li>\n
    • Perhaps most strangely of all, he appeared on conspiracy network InfoWars two years ago, who described him as \u201cone of the young stars of the conservative movement\u201d and had him talking about his Hong Kong protests.<\/li>\n
    • There are unverified DMs being posted showing him claiming that he was going to do this walk on stage prank ahead of time, and posting in the moments leading up to it.<\/li>\n
    • 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>\n

      Of 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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