A new Grand Theft Auto trend kicked off on Twitter this week, but not for the reason players would hope for. Rather, it is a recurring trend that people are talking about again Grand Theft Auto VI, the elusive project from Rockstar Games which is almost certainly somewhere in the works but has not been talked about in any official capacity. The trend follows yet another GTA Online update that was a major problem for the many players who are still active in the online game, but it has raised hope again for a GTA VI announcement will take place sooner than later.
The new GTA Online update that started the whole trend was actually much more than just the weekly updates the game gets to shake up bonuses, discounts, and other routine changes and features. Instead, it was one that added the game’s latest heist, the Cayo Perico Heist. With that heist came a whole new island for players to explore, although it wasn’t as easy to explore as some players might have hoped.
People don’t seem to have much trouble with the GTA Online updates itself but instead responds to the fact that the online version of GTA V still receives such updates, so many years after its release. In their eyes, every update stands for GTA Online means another patch or week without one GTA VI Announcement. More vocal parts of the community have long been hoping for the next game, even if they’re still playing the current one, and those players took to social media after the release of the GTA Online update to think about when we get an announcement for a new GTA game.
These kinds of trends are common around that time GTA Online is getting bigger updates, but maybe some of this particular trend is due to the release of Cyberpunk 2077. You can see various references to the CD Projekt Red game when you search the trend on Twitter from people who were joking about Cyberpunk 2077 being the next GTA Online. It was never marketed as such, of course, but gameplay previews of the game made some hope it would fill that void until a new GTA game was announced.
However, that hasn’t happened yet, so all for now GTA VI hopeful people should be holding them GTA Online updates and camaraderie with the community. There’s plenty to glean from each of these sources, though, and you can see examples of the latter below with some of the best responses from the latest GTA VI trend.