“S**tposting is a blessing and a curse,” say GTA 6 community mods in a futile bid to weed out silliness

The silliness crackdown isn’t totally working

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Before the long and arduous road toGTA 6continues, moderators on the game’s subreddit have attempted to crack down on the swamp of shitposts that have become more and more common in recent months. But the attempt doesn’t seem to be massively successful.

“Shitposting is both a blessing and a curse,” writes one moderator on the GTA 6subreddit. “It can be fun but it also distracts from valuable discussion.” The note continues to explain that the subreddit wants to focus on those “valuable discussions,” which is why future shitposts are now banned.

To provide a digital refuge for the otherwise silly, nonsensical, and downright distracting posts that might crop up, the moderators have created an all-new subreddit calledr/okbuddyalligator, which I’m guessing is a reference to the killer gators that infest real-life Florida, also known as Vice City.

The new subreddit already has all the stretched pictures of cats, head-scratching questions, and ‘flaming lobster plays basketball with shark’ art that you would expect. But that hasn’t stopped shitposts from spawning in the main subreddit either. As of the time of writing, at least oneposthas outlined reasons why protagonists Lucia and Jason arenotsiblings, which should be more than obvious to anyone who saw thecouplein action in GTA 6’s record-breakingdebut trailer.

Thoughtful discussion and mindless fun will probably multiply in the months leading up to the GTA 6 release. Online snoopers already havetheories about the second trailerbased on braille and key art. Meanwhile, one industry analyst recently explained that many studios are just trying to “survive 2024” amid mass layoffs, before GTA 6 inevitably sells like hotcakes and gets venture capitalists excited again.

GTA 6 is coming in 2025, so check out thenew games on the horizonin the meantime.

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Kaan freelances for various websites including Rock Paper Shotgun, Eurogamer, and this one, Gamesradar. He particularly enjoys writing about spooky indies, throwback RPGs, and anything that’s vaguely silly. Also has an English Literature and Film Studies degree that he’ll soon forget.

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