Roman's bowling calls, loading screen parodies and Liberty City's most quoted lines.
“Niko, it's Roman! Let's go bowling!”
A running joke about a friend who will not stop asking you to hang out, and one of the best-known GTA IV memes.
Where it's from: Roman Bellic's phone invitation to Niko in GTA IV (2008). Roman is the first friend you meet and calls often, usually at bad moments, so most players heard it again and again. Oney's 2008 GTA parody cartoon used the joke too.
Sources: knowyourmeme.com
Any group of characters or people gets the GTA IV intro treatment, which makes them look like a crime-game cast.
Where it's from: GTA IV (2008) opens with a loading screen of character stills over a hip-hop beat. Fans began remaking it with other games and shows from 2010, and the trend peaked in late 2020 and early 2021.
Sources: knowyourmeme.com
“Byeah.”
"Byeah" is the nickname for those bikers and a catchphrase in Jerma's community and beyond.
Where it's from: Streamer Jerma985 voiced the heavyset biker NPCs in GTA IV videos with STAR_ in 2013, ending lines with "byeah". It came back as a meme in the early 2020s.
Sources: knowyourmeme.com
The clip is reposted as a hype edit, turning Speed into a GTA IV loading-screen hero.
Where it's from: A GTA IV loading screen parody made from edited pictures of streamer IShowSpeed with the GTA IV theme. It went viral on X in September 2026 and spread to TikTok.
Sources: knowyourmeme.com
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