Was GTA 6's trailer release date revealed by GTA Online T-shirt in June?

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We’re mere hours away from the first trailer for Grand Theft Auto 6, the simple teaser image for which has already sparked an internet-wide meme and thrown infinite fuel on the ever-burning GTA 6 rumour fire. Big questions remain, of course. Not least: when will GTA 6 actually be out? Yet some eagle-eyed internet detectives reckon GTA 6’s release date has been staring us all in the face - and nips - for months.

This all stems from that GTA 6 trailer release date reveal, which announced Trailer 1 as dropping on December 5th 2023 at 9am ET. Remember all that, because it’ll be important in a sec.

Back in June, GTA Online celebrated Grand Theft Auto V’s 10th anniversary with a series of new cosmetics for players to wear in the multiplayer mode. Among the clothing was a shirt featuring some iconography in a diamond surrounded by what appeared to be a string of random numbers. Making things even more mysterious was the fact that the top was simply named “??? Tee”, and was removed from the store soon after appearing.

Now over in your favourite clothes shop in #GTAOnline San Andreas Mercenaries, a GTA V Anniversary Top category... Along with something mysterious that may get some community analysers going.... pic.twitter.com/5TtUdNUcB2

Perhaps those numbers weren’t quite as random as they seemed, though. Fans soon decoded a secret message reading “ONEDAYWILLREVEALALL” once the shirt properly released in October.

Also hidden in the string of numbers was the sequence 12523, which at least one fan at the time - GTAForums user ItsLachieNZ - optimistically suggested might refer to some kind of reveal on December 5th 2023. Sound familiar? That’s right: it’s the GTA6 trailer date (in American date format). And after the string