Put on your tin-foil hat and virtual shirt
We’re mere hours away from thefirst trailer for Grand Theft Auto 6, the simple teaser image for which has already sparked an internet-wide meme and thrown infinite fuel on the ever-burningGTA 6rumour fire.Big questions remain, of course. Not least: when will GTA 6 actually be out? Yet some eagle-eyed internet detectives reckon GTA 6’s release date has been staring us all in the face - and nips - for months.
Back in June, GTA Online celebratedGrand Theft Auto V’s 10th anniversary with a series of new cosmetics for players to wear in the multiplayer mode. Among the clothing was a shirt featuring some iconography in a diamond surrounded by what appeared to be a string of random numbers. Making things even more mysterious was the fact that the top was simply named “??? Tee”, and was removed from the store soon after appearing.
Now over in your favourite clothes shop in#GTAOnlineSan Andreas Mercenaries, a GTA V Anniversary Top category… Along with something mysterious that may get some community analysers going….pic.twitter.com/5TtUdNUcB2
Perhaps those numbers weren’t quite as random as they seemed, though. Fans soon decoded a secret message reading “ONEDAYWILLREVEALALL” once the shirt properly released in October.
Rockstar Games cooked 😭The “ONEDAYWILLREVEALALL” Tshirt has a number sequence of 12523 which is the release date of the#GTA6trailer.pic.twitter.com/MwJyVX0uyp
Here’s where the plot thickens even further. If it’s taken that the shirt was indeed a coded message about GTA 6’s trailer drop, then could it be hiding even more secrets? Unsurprisingly given the level of fervour around the game, fans across social media have quickly scoured it for any more possible clues.
Could GTA 6’s release date AND trailer reveal really have been teased months ago on a virtual T-shirt? And will what’s likely to be the biggest game of the decade really release on April Fools’ Day - or is this just Rockstar laying a red herring and having a laugh with fans searching for any scrap of info?
It’s worth nothing that plenty of fans are rightly sceptical about the likelihood a single digital shirt might turn out to be such a goldmine of information about GTA 6, pointing out that the numbers around the edge of the design have plenty of other patterns that could be interpreted with similarly generous readings.
Time will tell whether the T-shirt’s predictions turn out to have legs. Given that, maybe the actual GTA 6 release date will be revealed with a pair of virtual pants.
