GTA V.
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Grand Theft Auto V was originally released in 2013, but remains one of the most popular and best-selling games today. As proof of its continued relevance, the YouTube channel PlayStation Haven has accumulated over a million views with a video that re-enacts one of the most meme-tastic scenes in GTA between the characters Franklin and Lamar.
The twist is that the reenactment uses the real actors who voiced these characters in 2013: Shawn Fonteno (Franklin) and Gerald “Slink” Johnson (Lamar). The video is a teaser for an online series called GTA V Real-Life Comparisons, starring Slink, who compares the city of the game in Los Santos to the city that inspired it, Los Angeles.
Attention: graphic language in all the clips below.
Watching the clip above without context can be confusing. It is a scene that has maintained Internet fame within the online GTA community for years, thanks to the phrase “yee yee ass haircut”. In fact, “yee yee ass haircut” has its own Know Your Meme and Urban Dictionary pages.
The community tickled by inserting characters like Darth Vader, Vegeta and Snow White in the role of Lamar, and dubbing these characters to “bake” Franklin. Poor Franklin.
GTA V was released on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in 2013. Eight years and a PS4 / Xbox One remaster later, the game sold more than 120 million units. The next editions of the game for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X | S, in addition to Rockstar’s continued work on GTA Online, will keep GTA V going on for more years as well.