The first GTA 6 Trailer 2 theory of 2025 is just as crazy as usual-Michael Beckwith-Entertainment – Metro

New batch of GTA 6 copium has arrived (Rockstar)

Less than a month into 2025 and we have our first GTA 6 trailer theory of the year, which claims a new video will arrive at the end of January.

The last couple of months were rough for GTA 6 fans hoping Rockstar would have a new trailer to share. It had been a year since the initial reveal, so it wasn’t too unreasonable to expect a second trailer was on its way.

With no official news, some fans became convinced that Rockstar was cryptically teasing release dates in its social media posts, with a couple of outlandish theories using a motorbike’s licence plate and the phases of the moon as evidence.

And now there’s a new theory, revolving around a new image on X, but it seems fans have wised up and are not putting so much faith in this one.

Like previous theories, this one draws from an innocuous social media post from Rockstar, with this one advertising the GTA+ subscription for GTA Online.

All the post says is that members can claim additional free content, like a Vapid Dominator GT muscle car, by signing up. In the accompanying image, you can see a shipping container on the left-hand side that has a vertical line of numbers, ending with a two in a square.

Unsurprisingly, it’s been suggested that there’s significance to the numbers, with a recent post to the fan-made GTA 6 subreddit pointing out how they add up to 30. This doesn’t include that last two, but the theory is that this a reference to the fabled second trailer.

As such, the theory is that said trailer will drop on Thursday, January 30. On its own, that’s extremely flimsy, but the post attempts to back this up by pointing out that GTA 5 and Red Dead Redemption 2 had release date reveals around similar times: Thursday, January 31 for the former and Thursday, February 1 for the latter.

Plus, Take-Two’s next earnings call is scheduled for February 6. Since trailers and other important details for Rockstar games have tended to arrive ahead of such earnings calls, it’s common for fans to suspect new info whenever one of them rolls around.

Amusingly, most responses on Reddit are refusing to entertain the idea, demonstrating that fans have been burned enough times that they’re no longer putting stock in anything that isn’t explicitly confirmed by Rockstar.

The top comment from Dry-Fault-5557 is predictably, but appropriately, the ‘Here we go again’ meme from GTA: San Andreas, while a couple of others use the far more recent ‘I’ve played these games before!’ meme from Squid Game’s second season.

‘You never learn,’ is all AdvantageHonest6584 wrote, followed up by ‘Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it,’ from tonlimah.

Our favourite reply comes from atomicitalian, who suspects the trailer theorists will get it right eventually, but compares them to ‘doomsday cultists pointing at calendar dates and insisting this time the world will definitely end.’

A new trailer does have to happen at some point, as GTA 6 is supposed to be aiming for an autumn launch. Despite assurances by publisher Take-Two, though, there is an increasing assumption that there will be a delay, although one former Rockstar developer has claimed that won’t be decided till closer to the target release window.

Even if an exact release date gets announced, that won’t mean GTA 6 won’t be delayed (Rockstar)

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