Yes, you heard that right. At the process extremity of the 2022 Game Awards, close aft the developers of FromSoftware collected their Game of the Year grant for Elden Ring, a younker popped retired from the shadows to nominate erstwhile president Bill Clinton (?). Shortly after, big Geoff Keighley announced the idiosyncratic had been arrested.

“Hey Martin, you cognize existent speedy I privation to convey everybody and accidental that I deliberation I privation to nominate this grant to my reformed Orthodox Rabbi Bill Clinton,” the kid said close aft Elden Ring director Hidetaka Miyazaki had finished his acceptance speech. Security was making for the signifier adjacent earlier helium could decorativeness with a “thank you.”

The non sequitur ended up hitting viewers conscionable arsenic they awoke from their corporate video crippled trailer trance, and people societal media rapidly descended into chaos. Who was this kid? Where did helium travel from? Why was helium talking astir Bill Clinton, a antheral who stopped being important agelong earlier helium was born?

Going backmost and re-watching the extremity of the Game Awards livestream, you tin spot the kid get up and beeline for the FromSoftware unit arsenic they marque for the signifier to judge the award. Then portion each of them is talking you tin spot him waiting patiently successful the background, nervously shuffling backmost and distant and repeatedly licking his lips, preparing for his 15 seconds of net fame. I person nary thought if helium was trying to beryllium comic oregon doing immoderate 4Chan-inspired antisemitic heavy cut, but successful a satellite wherever 1 of the astir fashionable rap stars ever is presently praising Hitler, I’m prepared to judge the worst until proven otherwise.

Keighley chuckled on arsenic helium returned to the signifier to reason the ceremonial and reconstruct immoderate tiny semblance of normality earlier attendees made for the afterparties. “Alright, well, eventful evening,” helium said, intelligibly unsettled by the juvenile show he’d conscionable witnessed. But helium got the past laugh. According to Keighley, the prankster is present successful the hands of the Los Angeles Police Department, a destiny nary 1 deserves.