GTA 6 players fall in love with 'bikini girl', start drawing red circles and cross-referencing photos to prove she's the game's new lady lead

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So, Grand Theft Auto 6's trailer came a little early—thanks to some unfortunate leaks that bungled its initial announcement timing. It pretty much set the internet on fire, crushing 60 million views in 12 hours. At the time of writing, that's up to 70 million. GTA's back, baby.

Well, sort of. We're gonna be waiting until 2025—and the PC version will likely come a while later. Until then, fan theorists have been cooking, uh… religiously, with the small amount of content they've received. That's to be expected, given how long it's been since the last GTA game. In the frenzy, however, one particularly dire quest for answers has emerged. The community must know: Who is bikini girl, and is she one of our leads?

Okay, some context. The trailer gave us a glimpse at two potential protagonists, one of which is ex-convict Lucia. She's potentially in a Bonnie & Clyde situation with some bloke, bursting into a store at the end of the trailer with him, though she could just be stringing him along for the extra gun. It's unclear.

In typical Rockstar fashion, the trailer also gave us a glimpse at a scantily-clad lady in a bikini. This sort of salacious glitz and glamour is typical for GTA—both as a way of representing the fame-obsessed urban hellscapes which might push its protagonists to a life of crime, and also as a way of having a hot girl on the marketing material. It's a living.

These two things may, however, be linked. In a 'very even-tempered' post to the game's subreddit, userKryperExpress makes a compelling case that bikini girl and Lucia are one and the same, just with different makeup.

This may genuinely be the first time that a bunch of thirsty gamers have started drawing red circles around pictures of 3D women and