The Game Awards 2022 ended with a random kid sneaking onto the stage and mumbling nonsense about “Reformed Rabbi Bill Clinton.” The 2022 Game Awards are now understandably trying to pretend that never happened, blurring the kid out of a celebrating image Elder Ring Winner of second game of the year from developer FromSoftware.
“FromSoftware is the first studio to win two Game of the Year awards at the Game Awards,” according to the event’s social media account tweeted On Wednesday. The studio won in 2019 for Axe: Shadows die twiceand again earlier this month for Elder Ring. “Congratulations from Software,” it concludes. Attached was a picture of director and studio president Hidetaka Miyazaki presenting the award along with a member of the team translating his acceptance speech that evening.
But it didn’t take a keen observer to notice that that night’s Bill Clinton quip behind the two men had been sloppily photoshopped out of the picture. “LOSE MY MIND YOU CRUSHED THE KID LMFAOO”, quote tweeted Twitch streamer GamesCage. “Hahaha, you’ll have to use the Content Aware Fill tool in Photoshop to remove background elements next time.” added By software dataminer Lance McDonald.
The boy who crashed the Game Awards that night was later revealed to be Matan Even, a high school student with a Preference for hard-hitting IRL stunts, who later rose to internet fame. He previously trolled an NBA fan cam wearing a “Freedom for Hong Kong” t-shirt and interrupted a BlizzCon panel with a similar message. He has appeared twice on InfoWars to discuss Chinese censorship, but his social media presence shows no affiliation with any particular political ideology, and he has since distanced himself from InfoWars host Owen Shroyer, whom he previously called his “Favorite Person.” ‘ on the right. wings conspiracy network.
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Even’s stunt at the Game Awards was seemingly devoid of any major substance or meaning, but it temporarily stole the spotlight from the rest of the ceremony. Host Geoff Keighley laughed as security guards escorted the minor off the stage, and although he later tweeted that Even had been arrested, the LAPD claims he was only escorted to a local police station before being released without charge.
The fuzzy tweet seems to indicate that Keighley’s Game Awards still feels besmirched on some level by the intruder that night. However, apparently not soiled enough to make someone with more Photoshop experience fix the image. It took my city‘s own Zack Zwiezen less than fifteen minutes to edit the kid right out of the picture. Or as a person pointed outThe Game Awards could have just used one of the many other stills that don’t feature the child.
The Game Awards did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
