A GTA radio host predicted the end of the world in 2000 — then the same 'host' predicted it AGAIN in a 2008 game set in 2007.
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A GTA radio host predicted the end of the world in 2000 — then the same 'host' predicted it AGAIN in a 2008 game set in 2007.

Marvin Trill's Area 53 show was cancelled in the GTA IV timeline, so he pivoted to a website warning about the Y2K apocalypse — a disaster that had already come and gone in real life by 2008, making his in-universe panic hilariously outdated. He claims Domestobots spent five years digging him an underground bunker to survive a computer bug that never happened.

Source: Marvin Trill — CC BY-SA

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Likely Marvin Trill's Area 53 show title card — the cancelled program that sent him spiraling into an outdated Y2K doomsday website nobody asked for.
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Likely Marvin Trill's Area 53 show title card — the cancelled program that sent him spiraling into an outdated Y2K doomsday website nobody asked for.

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