GTA 6 fans are convinced that a new trailer is going to release on December 27, because the moon and a license plate told them so

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Lucia, a protagonist from Grand Theft Auto 6, looks over her shoulder at the camera while backlit by a prison yard.

The latest mind-boggling theory spreading through theGTA 6subreddit involves the moon, the identification order for Bonnie and Clyde, and a license plate. Apparently, everything points toward the number 27, which fans think means we’ll finally get a trailer for GTA 6 on December 27.

Rockstar Games' Instagramaccount currently has 27 posts,27 seconds into the GTA 6 trailer, you can see a pink car with the number 27 written on the back window, and the license plate of aLos Santos State Trooper car adds up to make 27. Although not every theory is this straightforward.

Some players have taken the 27 theory and run with it in all sorts of ridiculous directions. One player pointed out that there are27 days in the lunar cycle, which in and of itself doesn’t mean much, but it did bring theold GTA 6 moon theoryback into the spotlight.

GTA 6 moon theory is BACK!!The 2nd Waning Gibbous moon phase is back again TOMORROW, December 20th. Trailer 2 announcement/release could be tomorrow as the 1st moon theory predicted the announcement of Trailer 1If tomorrow is not the day, the next Waning Gibbous is January… pic.twitter.com/0UIdYFHhgMDecember 20, 2024

This involved players theorising that the next trailer will occur on a Waning Gibbous moon, all becausesomeone spotted it in an update for GTA Online. There was also a Waning Gibbous moon on December 1, 2023, the day that the first GTA 6 trailer dropped, leading to players believing that Rockstar Games follows the moon cycle when planning all big releases.

That may sound quite ridiculous, butRed Dead Redemption 2’s first trailerwas released on October 20, 2016, andRed Dead Redemption’s first “My Name is John Marston” trailerwas released on November 30, 2009; both of these were on a Waning Gibbous moon phase.

However, I personally think that this is evidence that Rockstar likes to make waves at the end of the year rather than painstakingly working to ensure everything lines up with the lunar calendar. But if you’re still a moon believer, then keep your eyes peeled on January 19, 2025, as this is the next Waning Gibbous moon phase.

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Coming back down to earthly theories, someone else points out that if youadded all the views on the GTA 6 trailer together, then that also gives you 27. But that only lasted for a few minutes until someone else in the world viewed the trailer or the person keeping track accidentally clicked off and back on the video.

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Another slightly more academic theory uses the general Roman calendar to figure out thatVI means December 27, otherwise known as the Feast of St John, Apostle, and Evangelist. This could also mean that we’ll get a St John GTA 6 cameo because, at this point, anything seems possible.

“At this point, even if Rockstar wasn’t planning to drop something on the 27th, now they have to,” aplayer says. “[The] 27th is the perfect day.” If nothing gets released in a few days, I’ll be disappointed, mainly because it seems like a waste of a perfectly good theory.

But sadly, there’s a very good chance that this is all just confirmation bias, no matter how badly I want it to be true. There are so many details in GTA 6’s trailer, along with everything else that Rockstar publishes, that it would probably be pretty easy to pick out another random date and find evidence that it could work just as well as December 27, but I’m happy to be proven wrong.

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