The GTA6 hype train keeps moving faster and faster, and the situation is bordering on crazy right now. There is this Twitter account called GTAVI Countdown, which just issued an arrogant tweet claiming: “GTA6 Trailer 1 prediction✅, GTA6 Trailer 2 prediction✅, Trailer 3 ⏳,” and the responses? Oh, they’re split into various working moods of excitement, genuine disbelief, or just exhausted with the speculation game. It’s too hard not to watch the never-dull GTA fandom tear it apart.
The account claims to have correctly forecasted the release dates of the first two trailers and is now aiming to predict the date of trailer number three. However, the growing system of gamers in the comments is saying no way. Not at all. There was peacehours giving a comment: “Bro u need interactions that bad? Holy fck.” This is basically universally agreed upon in the community. And AlienEye24 responded with a deathly reminder: “We all remember how many days you predicted before that, pipe down,” which is an admonition for them not to live down being wrong for long, just because of the two that they could claim as right.
Classic Internet behavior, ain’t it? Some guy will be predicting every single day for an extended period. The longer he does it, the more inevitable it becomes that at least one prediction will be correct. At which point, he will claim clairvoyance. Casaoui_2 was spot on here: “Time to predict every day of the year again until you’re eventually ‘right’.” Isn’t that the law of large numbers, folks? Guess enough times, and you’ll have an answer. Dqmirr even put it better: “After a thousand tries, one sure must work, right? 🤣”
Serious theories actually still exist amidst the flames. The conversation spun away from questioning whether this account is genuine to when or if we will actually be getting a third trailer. Thrusting the 2026 delay into the mix was changing outlooks. “December now,” said Kevo Spaceboundlego, a good call tying up to The Game Awards. Rockstar sure does love a big stage!” “Probably November or December,” Elijah said, keeping it simple.
When you get to the really speculative stuff, pattern searching; nerdy stuff I love. User Susti went all the way back track-rockstar: both RDR2 and GTA V had trailer three dropped about five months before the game’s release. Using that logic, they believe trailer 3 will land “a few days before Christmas” 2025. Good, hard core research.
Another user, mrzhsnr, was actually scrutinizing the days of the week when the trailers dropped for both GTA V and RDR2 – trying to find a pattern that will allow him to announce GTA VI third trailer on a Monday. At some point, you might feel that the guy is grasping at straws, but I do applaud the effort on his part.
But what everyone really wants to know is: what even is trailer 3? Could have been some of the best vibes ever, giving us that love affair with Vice City and our protagonists, Lucia and Jason. The speculation is that the third has to be a gameplay trailer. SaiyanQuad92 puts it bluntly: “Trailer 3 should be the gameplay trailer. We dont need another trailer like 1 & 2.”
And Souza_Lyandro puts forth his side theory, which in a marketing sense actually makes a ton of sense: “Maybe we get separate trailers focusing on each character’s story first, and then a full gameplay deep dive close to launch. Build the hype slow, reveal the world, then show us what we’re gonna be doing with it.”
Awww, and then there is the guy who has just… given up. BackKing2018 asked, “Who else not playing GTA5 but waiting on the elevated GTA6?” And honestly that is the mood right now. So many players have put the new game down and are just in this limbo, counting the days until 2026. The wait is painful; however, the speculations and community madness that accompany it kind of serve as entertainment.
It’s a loop. Rockstar says nothing, and the silence drives fans crazy. They start dissecting every little thing they can from past and present games; theories fly left and right; arguments grow cascades in every Twitter reply ever made. After some while, quite late actually, Rockstar drops something, and we all go insane. Rinse and repeat until Fall 2025. That account claiming a perfect record of prediction is the tiniest fragment within this vast chaotic anticipatory machine. Whether they’re right or just lucky, they’ve gotten everybody talking. Perhaps that was the goal. Rockstar was worn down by the GTA 6 hype. Rockstar was made stronger by the GTA 6 hype. The hype feeds itself, and everyone is along for the ride whether they like it or not. So grab the popcorn; the next one is probably getting typed somewhere.
