Rockstar Reshares GTA 6 Clip So Real Fans Thought It Was Miami

The most-shared GTA 6 video this week isn’t a trailer. On November 11, the Miami Instagram account Only In Dade posted a roughly 20-second clip of sports cars lined up along a sunny Ocean Drive, captioned “Miami is officially a simulation. #OnlyinViceCity.” Plenty of viewers took it for real phone footage, and plenty more were sure it was AI. It’s neither: it’s Vice City.

How we know it’s the game

Rockstar Games reshared the clip on its official Instagram Story and liked Only In Dade’s original post, as Kotaku, IGN and Rockstar Report all reported. Rockstar hasn’t put the video on its Newswire, YouTube or X, and it hasn’t said in its own words that the footage is from the game. Instagram Stories disappear after 24 hours, so the main record of the reshare is fan screenshots. Still, a studio this careful with its marketing doesn’t boost fake footage of its own game.

It recreates a real Miami stunt

The clip is a near shot-for-shot remake of a video that went viral in October. That one showed the custom cars Rockstar and West Coast Customs brought to Miami to promote GTA 6. Polygon put the two side by side: the real version has more people on the sidewalk and flatter colors, while the in-game one adds handheld shake that sells the “someone filmed this on a phone” look. Rockstar Report says the track playing is “Sexy Magic” from Grand Theft Auto VI: The Album.

Those are the same West Coast Customs cars from Rockstar’s Miami campaign, including the Grotti Cheetah later listed at the Selfridges GTA 6 takeover.

Is that Jason and Lucia filming?

The video is shot from two angles: from a moving car, and from a person on the pavement. Fans think the two people filming are Jason and Lucia, and some read it as a hint at what in-game phone video capture will look like. Neither character is clear enough in the clip to confirm that, so treat it as a fan theory for now.

Why it matters

It’s another look at street-level density and lighting in Vice City, captured as gameplay rather than a cinematic, one week before launch. GTA 6 is out November 19, 2026 on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S.