before GTA 6
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Refers to Grand Theft Auto VI (GTA 6), a video game which started development in 2014 and had a notoriously long and obscured development cycle. The phrase was popularized in 2023 after sporadic usage since 2020, and the game’s first trailer released on December 4, 2023, after which it remained in common usage. It indicates incredulity that an event is seemingly less strange than GTA 6 releasing.
Pronunciation
[edit]Prepositional phrase
[edit]- (Internet slang, humorous) Suggests that an unlikely, implausible, bizarre or strange event occurred.
- 2019 October 9, @ollotropitroz, “Archived copy”, in Twitter[1], archived from the original on 7 December 2024:
- Ps5 got announced before gta 6. Crazy
- 2021 August 25, @lilgnar, “Archived copy”, in Twitter[2], archived from the original on 7 December 2024:
- swear they got covid 22 now ???
new covid dropped before gta 6
- 2023 November 20, @kirawontmiss, “Archived copy”, in Twitter[3], archived from the original on 7 December 2024:
- we really got to see a drunk dog before gta 6
- 2024 October 3, @kenraizy_, “Archived copy”, in Twitter[4], archived from the original on 7 December 2024:
- we got eminem being a grandpa before GTA 6
Further reading
[edit]- “We Got X Before GTA 6”, in Know Your Meme, launched 2007
- Sportskeeda