The GTA 6 trailer tease is already meme fodder

polygon.com:

We’re still days away from the first trailer for Grand Theft Auto 6, but even the announcement of the trailer is causing a firestorm on social media. It makes sense: GTA 6 is one of the most anticipated games of the decade. To stay busy until the trailer drops on Dec. 5, everyone’s making jokes.

Even game studios as big as Microsoft are getting in on it, using the GTA 6 announcement format to announce their own trailers. The Fall Guys team, too, has a new trailer coming next week. We’ve reached out to both Microsoft and Epic Games to confirm they’ve actually got trailers coming, but our guess is yes — and that the GTA 6 announcement was a timely, buzzy thing to play off of.

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Elsewhere on social media, eager fans are digging into the GTA 6 poster for any hints as to what’s to come. Mostly, it’s speculation on the third birds. Three birds equals three characters? And then there’s the jokes about the people analyzing the poster — and the current state of video game remasters.

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If you’re looking for industry jokes, we’ve got those too. With Geoff Keighley’s The Game Awards coming on Dec. 7, there are plenty of people talking about how Rockstar Games’ GTA 6 trailer could distract from Keighley’s world premieres.

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But most of the hype is simply from people excited about the first trailer, given how long it’s been since Grand Theft Auto 5, which