Maybe Ed is just lonely and has no no one to play FIFA with?

The goal here is that it's famously difficult for third parties to get an appropriate measure of media attention in the UK. The newspapers are highly partisan, and the TV news interprets the 'balance' requirement to mean they can just give the government view and the main opposition view on every issue (unless the government and main opposition happen to agree - which is why the Lib Dems got a fair hearing in the media on Iraq in the early 2000s).

So third parties need to have a gimmick to trick the media into giving them airtime, which then allows them to talk about their issues. Charles Kennedy did it but being entertaining on chatshows and HIGNFY; Nigel Farage does it by being outrageous and offensive; and Ed Davey has worked out that he can do it through stunts.

During the run up to the GE, Farage was sucking up any media attention that wasn't on Sunac or Starmer. If Davey hadn't done those ridiculous stunts then no-one would have heard anything about the Lib Dems at all. I guess he feels that is still true.

Presumably they've crunched the numbers and think that making the kind of young people who will see these videos more aware of the lib dems is worth other people laughing at them

Here you go https://www.dailystar.co.uk/tech/gaming/lib-dem-leader-challenges-keir-34179838

Edit: typically people use the archive links to avoid paywalls, annoying ads or giving traffic to the daily mail

Yeah that was exactly the reason I voted for Ed over Layla back then.

I'm just getting tired of his capering now. The election is over!