GTA 6's first trailer has recreations of a load of real viral video moments in it, and it looks like Rockstar's version of TikTok will play a big part
Rockstar has released the first official trailer for Grand Theft Auto 6 early, and in 12 hours it's already smashed through 60 million views (and counting). Needless to say the 90-second video is jam-packed full of details and hints about what we'll be getting up to in Vice City, and if you want the nuts-and-bolts breakdown we've got you covered. But one element of the trailer really jumped out at me: TikTok framing, and the real-world parallels.
It's no surprise that GTA 6 will incorporate its own version of TikTok, because the series has always jumped on the tech trends of the moment: characters use their iFruit phones, you can surf Live Invader (Facebook) or Bleeter (Twitter), and pretty much any piece of pop culture you can imagine has its GTA equivalent. What Rockstar's seized upon with TikTok feels more in-depth than that though, and a reflection of how TikTokers and people filming constantly is now a fact of contemporary urban life.
What especially interested me about the GTA 6 take on this, however, is that several of the TikTok-esque clips in the trailer are lifted directly from real life. The first time I watched it I recognised GTA 6's hammer lady (timestamped video), ostensibly protecting her property, as a pretty much 1:1 recreation of this 2017 news clip that went viral: in which a Florida woman rants and raves around her neighborhood while dual-wielding hammers.
GTA's always sent-up the real world, but I suspect GTA 6 is going to skew closer to reality than ever before: not least because we do live in wild times, and some things are almost beyond parody. One element of the trailer many picked up on is the TikTok-like clip of a woman twerking atop a moving car, which seems absolutely absurd but, again, is
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