Cigarette butts and O2 measurements: GTA 6 spy takes trailer hunt to the extreme

A GTA fan had already raised eyebrows after eavesdropping on Rockstar North’s headquarters in Edinburgh with audio equipment and monitoring its parking lot. Now, the self-proclaimed GTA spy is taking the hunt for new information to an even more extreme level. In another Reddit post, u/Then-Pomgegranate-625 claims he is no longer just counting cars, but also analyzing environmental data around Rockstar’s headquarters – including oxygen levels, noise levels and even the number of cigarette butts near the building.

The theory behind it: if more people are working in the building over the weekend, oxygen levels should supposedly change as well. Higher decibel readings and more cigarette butts are also meant to indicate that developers or executives are staying on site longer and working under pressure on a major announcement for the successor to GTA 5 (PS5 version currently available for around $25 on Amazon). More expensive shoes, meanwhile, are supposed to suggest that more executives are in the building. For the amateur detective, these are possible clues pointing to the third GTA 6 trailer. Only the documented oxygen readings have been disclosed – and the Reddit user himself admits that they are not particularly reliable.

The community is once again reacting with ridicule. While the earlier car-counting effort was at least partly treated as a serious GTA theory, the latest efforts of the self-appointed GTA investigator feel more like comedy to many. The spying effort was also picked up by GTA 6 Countdown on X and in another Reddit thread.