Griefers, flying bikes and the songs and sights of a decade in Los Santos online.
“What do you call a magic owl? Hoodini!”
"Hoodini" became a stock reply dropped into YouTube comments under almost any video, the same way people used to answer everything with "Darude - Sandstorm".
Where it's from: A joke told by a player in an owl mask at a GTA Online comedy club in VanossGaming's "GTA 5 Online Funny Moments" video (June 22, 2015).
Sources: knowyourmeme.com
A player-made gang war: squads in matching alien suits griefing lobbies and fighting the other colour, which took over GTA Online clips in 2020.
Where it's from: Arena War (December 2018) added green and purple alien bodysuits to GTA Online. In 2019 and especially April 2020, groups of players in matching green suits started ganging up on lobbies, and purple gangs formed to fight them.
Sources: knowyourmeme.com
“God left.”
Posted as a reaction to trends or images people dislike, suggesting even God has left.
Where it's from: A Reddit screenshot (2017) of a GTA Online notice saying a player called "God" had left the session.
Sources: knowyourmeme.com
The bike became the symbol of GTA Online griefing, and players joke about it whenever someone gets blown up from the sky.
Where it's from: The flying, missile-firing Oppressor Mk II bike arrived in GTA Online's After Hours update in 2018. Kotaku called it the player-hated, troll-approved griefing machine; Rockstar weakened it in 2022 and later doubled its price.
Sources: kotaku.com, gamesradar.com
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