The 2022 Game Awards ended with a random kid sneaking up connected stage and muttering nonsense astir “reformed Rabbi Bill Clinton.” The 2022 Game Awards is now, understandably, trying to unreal that ne'er happened, blurring the kid retired of a representation celebrating Elden Ring developer FromSoftware’s 2nd Game of the Year win.

“FromSoftware is the archetypal workplace to triumph 2 Game of the Year awards astatine The Game Awards,” the event’s societal media relationship tweeted connected Wednesday. The workplace won successful 2019 for Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, and again earlier this period for Elden Ring. “Congratulations FromSoftware,” it concludes. Attached was a representation of manager and workplace president, Hidetaka Miyazaki, holding the grant alongside a subordinate of the squad who was translating his acceptance code that night.

But it didn’t instrumentality an eagle-eyed perceiver to announcement that the Bill Clinton prankster from that night, who had been lasting down some men, was sloppily Photoshopped retired of the image. “LOSING MY MIND THAT THEY BLURRED THE KID LMFAOO,” quote-tweeted Twitch streamer GamesCage. “Hahaha you gotta usage ‘content alert fill’ instrumentality successful photoshop to region inheritance assets adjacent time,” added FromSoftware dataminer, Lance McDonald.

The kid who crashed the Game Awards that nighttime was aboriginal revealed to beryllium Matan Even, a precocious schooler with a penchant for clout-chasing IRL stunts, who aboriginal gained notoriety connected the internet. He antecedently trolled an NBA instrumentality cam with a state for Hong Kong t-shirt, and interrupted a BlizzCon sheet with a akin message. He’s appeared doubly connected InfoWars to sermon Chinese censorship, but his societal media beingness shows nary allegiance to 1 peculiar governmental ideology, and helium has since distanced himself from InfoWars big Owen Shroyer, whom helium had antecedently called his “favorite person” connected the right-wing conspiracy network.

Even’s stunt at The Game Awards was seemingly devoid of immoderate larger substance oregon meaning, but it did momentarily bargain the spotlight distant from the remainder of the ceremony. Host Geoff Keighley laughed it disconnected arsenic information escorted the insignificant disconnected stage, and though helium aboriginal tweeted that Even had been arrested, LAPD assertion helium was lone escorted to a section constabulary presumption earlier being released without immoderate charges.

The blurred tweet would look to bespeak that Keighley’s Game Awards inactive feels besmirched connected immoderate level by the interloper that night. Apparently not besmirched capable to get idiosyncratic with much Photoshop acquisition to hole the image, however. It took Kotaku’s ain Zack Zwiezen little than 15 minutes to decently edit the kid retired of the image. Or arsenic 1 idiosyncratic pointed out, The Game Awards could person simply utilized 1 of the galore different stills successful which the kid is retired of view.

The Game Awards did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.