The Game Awards 2022 stage stormer arrested after bizarre \u201cBill Clinton\u201d interruption The Game AwardsThe Game Awards 2022 went off mostly without a hitch \u2014 until the Game of the Year award presentation. After Elden Ring\u2019s developers gave a speech, a stage stormer stepped up to the mic with a bizarre \u201cBill Clinton\u201d spiel and was promptly arrested. The Game Awards are the night of nights for the gaming industry, celebrating the best releases of the year. However, 2022\u2019s celebrations were cut short for FromSoftware, the developers of Elden Ring. After they walked up on stage to accept their award and give a speech about the challenges they went through creating the game, someone snuck up and stepped up to the mic. \u201cI would like to dedicate this award to my reformed Orthodox Rabbi, Bill Clinton, thank you, everybody,\u201d the person said, before getting escorted off stage by security. People have stated this is an anti-Semitic statement. The moment had the crowd stunned, and sent Twitter into a frenzy. Bill Clinton quickly trended on the platform as people made memes about the bizarre interaction. Early fingers were pointed at one streamer: Wantep. Known for his stream-sniping antics previously, it wouldn\u2019t be beyond the keel for him to do it on gaming\u2019s biggest stage. Some even drew parallels to their striking resemblance. However Wantep did tweet about the incident live saying \u201cwe do a lil trolling,\u201d so it\u2019s unlikely. Another person claimed to have been texting the person behind it, saying they hatched a plan days out to sneak onto the stage and grab the mic. Their name wasn\u2019t revealed. Whoever it was, The Game Awards showrunner Geoff Keighley revealed they were arrested shortly after the saga: \u201cThe individual who interrupted our Game of the Year moment has been arrested.\u201d It\u2019s a sour note on a celebratory night for the gaming industry, but it\u2019ll be talked about for years to come given all the Bill Clinton memes and discourse in the short period after.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Game Awards 2022 stage stormer arrested after bizarre \u201cBill Clinton\u201d interruption The Game AwardsThe Game Awards 2022 went off mostly without a hitch \u2014 until the Game of the Year award presentation. After Elden Ring\u2019s developers gave a speech, a stage stormer stepped up to the mic with a bizarre \u201cBill Clinton\u201d spiel and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}