What's your favorite short-form video app of choice? I feel like most people would say TikTok, but for me, it's a mix of Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts.
Odds are, these platforms all have the same videos, for the most part. Many content creators cross-upload between all of the apps, but the algorithms are different on each one. Recently, my YouTube Shorts algorithm has been giving me random Grand Theft Auto 5 videos, and I've become hooked on one genre of them specifically.
This genre has been brought to me by a channel by the name of GTA Fun Guy, and they are a guy who has their fun in GTA by provoking random NPCs driving along the roads of GTA Online, instigating road rage incidents that usually end in the unsuspecting drivers dead on the ground. It appears that they have only been uploading for a few months, but I've seen enough of their Shorts over the past few weeks to get sick of them. But I haven't yet.
Folks, these videos are so, so dumb. In the majority of their videos, GTA Fun Guy rides up alongside an NPC and kicks their vehicle, goading them into chasing him across San Andreas. It's totally taken over my algorithm and I can't get enough, no matter how many times I shake my head, say "that's so stupid" out loud, click the like button, and continue scrolling.
I've since sought out more from GTA Fun Guy on their channel, and it's full of Shorts just like the one below, which is their most-viewed clip thus far with 8.8 million views. It's a perfect summation of their content and why I can't stop watching it.
The NPCs always have some choice words for GTA Fun Guy, calling him a cock or telling him to go to hell, for example, and yet he strings them along like the dumb AI they are, eventually finding a perfect spot to send them flying off a cliff or crashing into civilians. Again, it's stupid, but again, it's too damn funny, and it's allowing me to appreciate just how great GTA 5 was and somehow still is.
Be forewarned if you click the above and your algorithm gets taken over by more dumb GTA videos. But at least then I won't be alone in my enjoyment of this outrageous channel and its silly content that's only making the wait for GTA 6 feel longer.
Speaking of, imagine the havoc that GTA Fun Guy will be wreaking in Vice City. I'll be locked in.
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