GTA 6 fan goes full noir detective to discover a random NPC's sunscreen SPF in the most informatively unhinged way
Title card: The Grand Theft Auto 6 Sunscreen Mystery. Fade in: Interior. A detective's office. Shutters keep the glow of street lamps at bay. A lone figure paces around the room, kicking away cans of empty aerosol sunscreen that spill from an overflowing trash bin. They mutter to themself as they light up a cigarette. On a corkboard we see a map of Miami beach broadwalk, and a diagram charting the course of the Atlantic Coast sun. They're close. They can taste it.
This is what I can only assume took place at the residence of Reddit user ficerc, who has written an investigation into the exact SPF factor being used in a short, two-second clip from Grand Theft Auto 6's recent trailer by a throwaway NPC with zero relevance to the story. Aha, a throwaway joke, you might think—you'd be wrong.
Ficerc'sthread on the game's subreddit, titled: «What SPF sunscreen is being used in the GTA VI trailer? An in-depth analysis» has a level of research I can only describe as 'obscene'.
«At this point, I'm sure we've all noticed the guy applying sunscreen in the new GTA VI trailer and thought, 'What SPF are they wearing?'» writes ficerc, in the first of many assumptions that carry the rest of their essay. «Get ready for some SPF speculation—it's gaming meets skincare investigation time!»
The first step in their investigation is to consult a table from Banana Boat—that's a sunscreen company in the US, by the way. Though ficerc seems to think this is elementary, my dear Watson. «Although any mildly competent sunscreen enthusiast knows this table by heart, I will include it for any who may have forgotten.»
Using this, they quickly determine the sunbather's skin tone by cross-referencing it with the Fitzpatrick Skin Score, which was developed
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