Grand Theft Auto 6 is easily one of the most anticipated games known to be currently in development. Grand Theft Auto 5 and its online component remain incredibly popular and lucrative products, even now nine years after its release, so it’s easy to see why the developer RockstarGames you are taking your time and want to offer something special with grand theft auto 6.
But in the meantime, Rockstar may be getting tired of hearing about it. Recently, it has been confirmed that mention of Grand Theft Auto 6 is banned on the YouTube channel. Twitter of rock star. The discovery first came to the GTAForums community, as a user shared a screenshot of their attempts to mention grand theft auto 6 in the chat of Twitter from Rockstar, being rejected.
The screenshot shows someone entering the channel chat Twitter of RockstarGames and writing two statements, one with the term “GTA 6” and another with “GTA VIBoth messages were not livestreamed, as they were banned by the channel’s auto-moderation. Specifically, the messages were described as conflicting with the channel’s moderation settings.
Rockstar hasn’t officially offered a statement as to why mentions of Grand Theft Auto 6 have been banned from its Twitch channel, but it doesn’t appear to be an accident or misunderstanding. Rockstar has previously banned mentions of Grand Theft Auto 6 on its YouTube channel. It seems that politics is simply moving from YouTube to Twitter.
On the one hand, it’s easy to see why Rockstar may decide to ban mentions of Grand Theft Auto 6. The company isn’t actively talking about the game or its development at this time. It’s trying to focus on other projects, like Grand Theft Auto 5. But if a significant number of posts, or comments in the case of YouTube, are about Grand Theft Auto 6, then it derails the entire community discussion. Also, the developers at Rockstar are probably very tired of hearing, “When will GTA 6 be released?”.
However, there is an argument against it, as fans are very excited about Grand Theft Auto 6 and that deserves to be celebrated. Stopping them from talking about Grand Theft Auto 6 on the media channels where the Grand Theft Auto community hangs out might not seem like such a good thing.