Elon Musk has voiced his love for video video games like Elden Ring previously. However there’s one extraordinarily in style recreation that Musk is not a fan of: Grand Theft Auto.
“Tried, however didn’t like doing crime,” Musk stated in a reply to an X worker who stated that they had by no means performed a GTA recreation earlier than. “GTA5 required capturing cops within the opening scene. Simply couldn’t do it.”
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GTA is a piece of fiction – a online game – and enjoying it doesn’t imply you’re really doing crime or capturing cops. However Musk is entitled to his opinion. And GTA was definitely an enormous subject of dialog on Monday, after the trailer for GTA 6 leaked on Musk’s social media platform a day earlier than it was imagined to launch.
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Nevertheless, his opinion of one of the crucial in style online game franchises of all time is not actually the purpose right here. It is that Musk overtly shared his disdain for the sport on the similar time X CEO Linda Yaccarino publicly reached out to GTA 6 writer Rockstar Video games in hopes they’d add the brand new recreation’s debut trailer immediately on X.
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“@RockstarGames — gaming is one in every of our hottest subjects,” Yaccarino posted on the platform previously often known as Twitter. “Drop that trailer right here — give the folks on @X what they need!!”
Musk appears to have a behavior of undercutting Yaccarino, who he handpicked particularly as CEO to carry advertisers again to the platform resulting from her expertise within the advert business. Simply final week, Musk informed massive manufacturers like Apple and Disney to “go fuck your self.” This was in response to those corporations suspending promoting on X over Musk’s endorsement of an anti-Semitic conspiracy concept.
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Yaccarino had beforehand boasted in regards to the variety of put up views Rockstar Video games’ GTA 6 posts had been receiving within the days main as much as the official trailer launch, initially scheduled for Tuesday, Dec. 5.
“90+ million views in underneath 12hrs,” the X CEO posted on Friday whereas sharing Rockstar Video games’ teaser put up for the trailer launch. “See you Tuesday!”
Nevertheless, on Monday afternoon, the trailer was leaked by an nameless X person named @Gta6trailerleak. Whereas X suspended the account inside an hour of the trailer leaking, the video was already making the rounds, forcing Rockstar Video games to launch the trailer on YouTube at 6:10 p.m. ET on Monday night.
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At 9 a.m. ET on Tuesday, when the trailer was formally imagined to debut, Rockstar Video games shared the trailer once more on X by as soon as once more directing customers to its official YouTube add.
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As of publication time, the GTA 6 trailer has greater than 74 million views on YouTube. As YouTube’s largest star MrBeast identified, the GTA trailer has already set a brand new YouTube document for many views inside 24 hours.
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As of publication time, Rockstar Video games has not uploaded the GTA 6 trailer on to X.