news So Who Is The Game Awards’ ‘Elden Ring’ Bill Clinton Kid?

The Game AwardsTGA 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…weird was going on behind them. 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? And then he took the microphone. The best transcript of what he said in some sort of

unidentifiable accent is “I think I want to thank everybody and say that… I think I want to nominate this award to my reformed orthodox rabbi bill Clinton, thank you

everybody.” 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

shortly after that he had been arrested. And the internet then positively blew up with Elden Ring-based memes and jokes and just…disbelief, trying to understand what they just

saw. 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. 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. Previously, this kid did something similar in 2019 at BlizzCon where he interrupted a World of Warcraft panel by shouting “Free Hong Kong.”

That is documented on this same Twitter account. 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: 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. Perhaps most strangely of all, he appeared on

conspiracy network InfoWars two years ago, who described him as “one of the young stars of the conservative movement” and had him talking about his Hong Kong protests. 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. He follows me on

Twitter, he 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. Of course, what he said when he got

up there was not tied to Hong Kong, and references to his “reformed orthodox rabbi Bill Clinton,” while nonsense, does feel like it could be tied to some sort of anti-Semitic