This week, in fact tomorrow marks ten years of the absolute behemoth that Grand Theft Auto V became. The first GTA game to introduce a parody of Instagram – Snapmatic, it was the first GTA game with a proper photo mode that everybody around Los Santos used to get some free social media clout on Social Club – with some filters of course. Who didn’t love corny, edgy or emo Instagram filters in 2013? So much so, that back then every Snapmatic had a forced filter on it.

Today in Snap Saturday, we go back in time an entire decade and look at one of the main locations, other than the Social Club, to posting snaps in our community – the GTAForums. Quite a technical effort to recover a lot of these because Rockstar unfortunately made all PS3/Xbox 360 gen images unavailable, I’ve managed to recover a sizeable amount for this Snap Saturday, for a wee look at what things looked like back in September 2013 in the Snapmatic universe.

Twitter was a much smaller social media network back in the day, and although there are a handful of Snaps, it does not at all represent what the community was up to back then. The forums are one such place, and I wish the Social Club still was so we could get the very first image reliably, but the latter’s images are no longer available, and searching Twitter for “Snapmatic” in 2013 proved quite risky, with, oddly, some NSFL imagery appearing…

All links in each snap will bring you to the current-era forums with broken images, however, you can use this Wayback Machine link to accompany the experience as it was back then.

Happy 10th anniversary, GTA V, and enjoy!

Post your photos on GTAForums or use the #GTAOnline / #RedDeadOnline / #RedDeadRedemption2 hashtags on Twitter and you might see your efforts highlighted in future GTANet Snap Saturdays!

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Daddy’s back, you bitches!

After celebrating a new decade, losing medals, and skipping a year, the GTANet Annual Awards are finally making a return. Join us as we attempt to recognise the best and worst of GTAForums during 2021. Medals are also back, and who doesn’t love the chance of winning some shiny Internet points? Better late then never, we say.

Guidelines
Maximum 3 nominations (per Award)
Those most nominated will progress to the final public vote (per Award)
Insert links to profiles/topics/posts/mods to make the count easier
Cut any Awards out that you don’t want to submit any nominations for
Nominations close in about a week or so
Use the nominations topic for nominations only
Use the Q&A topic for sh*tposts or suggestions

The Categories:

Contribution Awards -> Those who really stand out from the crowd, make good posts, or generally contribute a lot to specific areas of the Forums
Best Poster in GTA Online
Best Poster in Grand Theft Auto [SP-only areas]
Best Poster in Red Dead [SP + Online areas]
Best Poster in Off-Topic
Best Poster in Expression
Best Poster in Modding
Best Poster in GTAO Next DLC Speculation Topic
Best Poster in GTA 6 Speculation Topic

Content Awards -> Special mentions for those who make your Rockstar Community Experience  that bit more enjoyable
Best Post of 2021
Best Topic of 2021
Best Concept or FanFic
Best Concept or FanFic Writer
Funniest Member
Coolest Member
Most Helpful Member
Most Knowledgeable Member
Best Debater
Best New Member
Most Missed Member

Gang Awards -> Who collectively circled your jerk in 2021?
Best Forum Gang
Worst Forum Gang

Staff Awards -> Teacher’s pets, rejoice!
Best Admin
Best Mod
Best Ledby
Most Corrupt Staff

Modding Awards -> The fixer-uppers of the community; applauding mods that have improved upon or added to your games in 2021
Best Script / Plugin
Best Map
Best Total Conversion
Best Vehicle
Best Texture
Best Character
Best Tool
Best Workshop

The (S)hitlist -> Need we say more?
Biggest bitcher of 2021
Most annoying of 2021
Worst sh*tposter of 2021
Biggest shill of 2021
Biggest troll of 2021
Worst attention seeker of 2021
Cringeposter of 2021
Most likely to get banned in 2022

Create Your Own Award -> Thinking of a special someone that really deserves a medal, or a (s)hitlist mention, but there’s no category listed here? Let’s have it

Logo banners created by NestorSite

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GTANet: Congrats on CircoLoco Records! Music has always been a big part of the GTA series, how do you go about picking something new to introduce into the GTA world that will stick around forever?

Rockstar Games: It’s very similar to the process we used when we first created the game – all starts with having a sense of what is right for the location of the game and the vibe of the overall world. For Grand Theft Auto V, that meant bringing that sense of contemporary LA and the music that was happening there at the time. Over time as GTA Online has grown, we’ve taken the opportunity to reflect changes in the music scene and to highlight different aspects of the city’s music scene that we loved and thought that people should hear. A good example is something like KULT FM with Julian Casablancas, which is based on a low-power radio station in Venice Beach that plays a really eclectic mix of tunes. We felt that was a great balance to the stations we had already added, and Julian was the perfect host. We hope by picking a great mix of known tunes and hidden gems, people will be able to tune in and discover new things for years.

GTANet: GTA Online must provide an endless stream of data, but regarding music, which radio stations or songs that turned out to be a hit were the biggest surprise for the team?

Rockstar Games: We’ve always been blown away by how much people love Non-Stop Pop. But we’re not just trying to fill the stations with music people know and love, we really love to turn people on to new music, and that’s really the driving force between the range of radio stations and artists we put into every game.

GTANet: Regarding Los Santos Tuners specifically, what quality of life changes, or fan requests, did you add?

Rockstar Games: As hopefully you’ve already discovered, Los Santos Tuners added quite a few requested features and updates, including the ability to “Take All” Snacks in owned Properties. Players can also choose to show/hide certain radio stations in the Radio Wheel (this is done via the Interaction Menu) to suit their musical tastes. Adding a new category of Wheels was also a popular request which made sense for us to include this time around, as well as the option to Test Drive select vehicles in the LS Car Meet before purchasing.

The feedback has been incredible with a record-breaking opening week – we couldn’t be more excited and grateful to the community for coming together to play and we’re really glad everyone is enjoying the update!

GTANet: The community challenge you have done for the heists was really interesting and engaging, would you consider doing more in the future? (Not just tied with heists)

Rockstar Games: Absolutely! We loved seeing the community come together to heist over GTA$1 Trillion during The Heist Challenge – more than 10x the original target. We’ve got a few things planned this year which we think will be really fun for the community to take part in, as well as some new activities for Halloween, and some exciting new updates beyond that.

We also wanted to take a moment to thank the entire community for continuing to support GTA Online. We’ve been humbled by the incredible response to Los Santos Tuners. We’re always checking out Crews running their own meets and generally immersing themselves in car culture, and bringing that back to GTA Online is something we’ve wanted to do for a while. With the number of players requesting that we bring a car-focused update to GTA Online, the time felt right to celebrate that side of the game. It’s always been important to us that players can get in touch and let us know the kinds of things they’d like to see in the game – we strongly encourage any and all feedback to make its way to us via the GTA Online Feedback Portal at https://www.rockstargames.com/GTAOnline/feedback

Discuss with the rest of the community on GTAForums and Twitter!

** Screenshots by uNi and Spider-Vice **

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Welcome to GrandTheftAuto3.net

Although we haven’t officially launched yet, Today is our opening day
GrandTheftAuto3.net is here to provide everyone with a premiere resource for news, information, downloads, and tons more for the game.
Anyway, I’m Tank and I’m the lead webmaster at GrandTheftAuto3.net.

[Posted by: Tank] [At: Friday, April 6, 2001]

This means that today GTANet/GTAForums is a whole 20 years old! Not quite old enough to drink in some states of the US, but we’re 20! A whole two decades. Whee!

At one point on our 11th anniversary, fellow staff member AndyGanteks made a great topic about what has happened in GTAForums/GTANet since its inception. From great database crashes in 2001 that made us lose the little we still had, to the site being reopened on a fresh slate (working on that same slate since then!), to new sites within the network opening up with news, screenshots and all kinds of goodies about each game, and more. Obviously, this all including typical community drama and gossip, even before social media like Twitter was a thing!

Real life has put a bit of a toll on all of us over the years (especially in the past year for obvious reasons), and we haven’t been able to neatly document as much as we wish we could have in the same way.
We obviously have participated since always, but we’re sure more seasoned members will remember the glorious moments of GTA V’s pre-release, the thread simulators made by ThirstyHyena (a couple of us like Spider-Vice and Kirsty are spotlit there too!), trying (and successfully!) to make a map of GTA V just based off of trailers, custom groups made for believers (Beliebers, even, who had to wear Justin Bieber avatars!) and non-believers about Rockstar giving us info in time (god damned Unsaveables, praise be Kifflom!), the madness of Red Dead Redemption 2’s pre-release period with trying to analyse trailers to understand the allegedly leaked map and looking for CV’s from voice actors that could reference the game, good good old hype times and so many more memories that it’s impossible to list them all here. And we’re obviously expecting plenty more of that whenever the next Rockstar project comes along!

During this time, we have been recognised as an official fansite, appeared in game manuals (pics by uNi, look at us as gtavice.com, gtanet.com and gta3.com!), gotten plenty of sweet goodies and attention from the lovely people at Rockstar, we’ve attended multiple fansite events for games like GTA IV, RDR, L.A. Noire and Max Payne 3 with other fansite friends, attended community gameplay sessions, and much much more. Our GTA4.net Street View has been featured on the Newswire, and so was uNi’s massive massive Rockstar goodies collection, for instance. It’s been a very very wild and enjoyable ride this whole time. But we’ll be leaving all the emotions to the end. As for the rest of this article…

If you need a bit of a nostalgia trip, here’s how GTAForums.com looked back in the day, enjoy! Perhaps you will remember some of them if you were a member back then, perhaps you’ll be impressed at how basic it all was, in the days where a lot of us still had dial-up internet and screenshot topics with titles yelling “56K WARNING!!!”. Some of them have missing images, again, Internet Archive fairy dust… But if you look back to some of our (still intact!) legacy sites like our GTA3 site, you might be able to imagine how some of them looked! Click to make bigger.

Increasing traffic demands with all the GTA IV and GTA V hype (where we broke our concurrent online users record at about 15K, with hundreds of posts per second), and security concerns over the years, led us to start changing our styling a little bit as we upgraded the version of the underlying software that powers the forums, that was becoming full of cobwebs and magic code hacking dust that could explode any moment. This led us to our current look, and to some of our exciting new announcements for the celebration:

ALL NEW GTAFORUMS THEMES!

Back in the day, GTAForums had a wide selection of themes maintained by different staff members (some even downloaded from theme sites back in the day when that was a thing…), that looked from pleasing to the eyes, to absolutely retina-burning. Real life demands along with forum updates over time meant that we preferred to stick to the tried and tested GTAForums classic colours, but, this is about to change with a couple of brand-new themes we have to announce, with a chance of more to come in the future…

GTAForums Nightshift – This should be self-explanatory. We’ve reached the modern age of the Internet and turned off the lights. You’ll be missing out on the colours that GTAForums has brought to your CRT, LCD and now even OLED monitors over the years, but if your jam is the darkness (or the occult, or a spoopy version of GTAForums…) you can now switch to GTAForums Nightshift and feel at home! Perhaps we’ll even add some pentagrams, Weegie Ouija boards… okay maybe not.

ScotForums – Speaking of that horrible pun (apologies to all Glaswegians) that probably didn’t even work… The popularity of this Irn Bru flavoured theme could’ve fooled us, so we’ve brought this special guest back in all its Scottish glory, and with a few new additions! It looks like a lot of our members loved the wee cone as a forum Reaction, so we just made the GTANet logo suffer with one atop its heid. Do remember this was originally an April Fools theme so don’t expect it to be maintained too much in terms of your suggestions, etc! If that’s your jam and you want to rock the colours of Scotland and the colours of the nation’s favourite drink, you can now do it!
_{Editor’s note by Spider-Vice: I was absolutely flabbergasted at how popular this Scottish-themed abomination I made in a few hours was, just out of inspiration of a few things, such as Rockstar North & Dundee being in Scotland, uNi now living there, among other things. I’m very glad we’re gonna keep it!}

FEEDBACK TOPIC

BANNER CONTESTS!

We’ve always been nostalgic folk, and most of our themes, including the myriad of themes we had back in the days of GTAForums v1, had very nostalgic old-school banners, some related to the games they were about (we had a GTA LCS theme, an Afterfuture GTA2 theme…). But things are changing, we now have so much more to see in Grand Theft Auto, we have a Red Dead section, and well, it’s all very overwhelming since the last time we’ve updated our banner. We feel like we’re getting old here…!

Let’s go for a change! We want YOU to design us a proper banner for each of the theme versions we have announced, that is, the main theme we’ve always used, the GTAForums Nightshift Theme and the ScotForums Theme! Obviously we want both main theme and Nightshift to be the centre-pieces, and, should we add, we have no rush for a ScotForums banner specifically, but if you want to give it a shot, it doesn’t necessarily have to be images of the games, just make it as Scotland themed as you can! Could be icons, could be Scottish easter eggs from Rockstar’s games… Let’s give it the look it deserves!

The requirements are simple – dimensions should be about 1920×200 (height can vary a little, but not too much because we don’t want to have too wide of a gap between the banner that says GTAFORUMS and the actual forums), or 3840×200 if you want/are able to fit more images/icons/what have you on the width axis for those with larger/ultrawide monitors. Action should be centred at the top of the banner so nothing is cut-off by the fade-out into the forums at the bottom! As you may imagine, the banner for Nightshift probably should focus on darker scenes. You may try using black and white, or a nice nightly scene in a GTA game or even a little bit of Red Dead, logos, patterns, it’s all up to you, go wild!

SUBMISSIONS TOPIC

MOAR SLOGANS!

Slogans have been a part of our forums since we’ve revamped them and updated them to a fresh new version a few years ago. For the longest time we’ve had only a few, cycling every so often. Now, we have a much bigger selection, from GTA and RDR game quotes, to GTAForums jokes, to inside jokes, easter eggs and many other things! But we want MOAR! We once again enlist YOU to give us ideas for the slogans that appear in the banner at the top of the forums, they could be related to GTAForums in-jokes, to Rockstar community jokes and easter eggs, to anything you think is funny that comes to mind.

Just a few rules that should be very obvious to most and we expect you to cooperate with us on this, pretty please:

• Avoid swearing. We censor part of it on the forums due to ads and page ranking, and we can censor swearing on the slogan, but perhaps be a bit more creative than just using swear words in a slogan;
• No insults, that is to other forum members, to the community at large, or to Rockstar Games/Take-Two. Be civil and creative, don’t use these slogans to let out your personal hate of a feature, game or company. Making jokes about stuff like Oppressors and using other harmless GTA Online memes is fine, as we do already have a “flying brooms” slogan for example, but don’t make it about “griefing” and similar toxic subjects either, we want fun, not picking fights with these;
• Please don’t make them too long due to mobile users, the maximum size for a slogan would be something like the “All we had to do, was follow the damn train!” slogan we already have, that already looks pretty wide on a regular 16:9 phone screen in portrait mode;
• The slogans cycle through a list every 20 minutes, don’t be surprised if you don’t see one of your selected slogans straight away on the forums, you may just be missing it.

SUBMISSIONS TOPIC

THE GTAFORUMS CENSUS – COMING SOON!

There can’t be a GTANet celebration, whether it be the awards or anything else, without our census master Slohbur’s numbers about the community. We will be posting some interesting stats from over the years (although not as many as we would like due to software limitations and data format differences over the years), all very nicely formatted and modern, so you can gasp at how much time you’ve wasted speculating about the next Rockstar project and talking about GTA Online and Red Dead Online on GTAForums. Seriously, time here goes by at a completely different pace!

We don’t have an ETA for you yet, but we will be doing these things within the next few days along with the slogan and banner contests.

MEDALS!

Calling all karmawhores… By popular request over the years due to hamster shenanigans and Invision being a bit of a pain, Spider-Vice has been busy under the hood with every single one of his 8 legs, and after some tweakage and tunage, we can reveal that Medals on GTAForums are back! You’ll find the familiar flashy icon under the avatar area; just hover over it to check out your awards list.

Don’t have a medal? Never fear, there’ll be chance to prove your forum worth in our Annual Awards, which will be back after hiatus later in 2021!

FINAL WORDS – THANK YOU!!!

Now… we all absolutely suck at being sentimental, but…

Thanks SO MUCH to everyone who has stayed with us and supported/supports us and still chooses us to discuss Grand Theft Auto, Red Dead and Rockstar at large. I don’t think any of us imagined we’d be here after 20 years, and it’s just wild to know that Tank’s little creation due to being a fan of the top-down GTA’s became one of the main hubs for Rockstar discussion and much more.

Thank you to our members and staff, both old and new (including the banned ones and troublemakers!) for staying and for creating discussion, and thanks Rockstar (and many of their lovely employees that have positively influenced us, and that we wish we could thank personally for many reasons) for the support, recognising us and even including us in the good old manuals of the old times of gaming, for sending us goodies for being a recognised fansite and much more!

Thanks everyone for all of the memories, good, bittersweet and even bad that everyone has given us in the past 20 years, as we continue hoping to be here for 20 more! Let there be more game pre-release madness and all the things that make us such a dynamic community!

An also very obvious thanks to all the other fansites and the R* community, especially the OG fansites who have supported us over the years, sometimes by sharing news in the good old days of running news sites like these before social media to get the word out there, among other many things and good times at official Rockstar fansite events like the ones mentioned above.

We are also sure that many of our longer-standing members will remind us of even more moments we may have gone through together that are just too many to list in a news article or forum post; please share your memories with us as a we revel in our own nostalgia.

From the GTANet/GTAForums/RedDeadNet Team, we wish we could have a gigantic list of names BUT,
WE LOVE YOU ALL AND THANK YOU ONCE AGAIN!

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Due to unexpected circumstances, this website now sits back in our original home of GTANet.com.

You may notice a few missing links or broken images for a few days, but we’ll be patching things up ASAP. Other than that, it’s business as usual.

Thanks to all our new and returning readers for checking in to our re-launched community website over the last few weeks. Our header competition is still open!

If you need to get in touch, give us a shout.

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We’re looking to add a little spice to our header on this here website, and where better to look than our community to help us achieve it?

Requirements!
Must be Grand Theft Auto, Red Dead or Rockstar Games themed
Can be a mixture of Rockstar titles, or just focused on one game
Can comprise of in-game screens or official artwork
Shouldn’t contain any text
Our header on GTAForums is a good example of our style but we’re open to new things
Must be at least 1900 × 600 pixels in dimension

Win!
Our three top picks will win a GTA IV: The Complete Edition copy on Steam.
Additional favourites may be picked as well
We’ll credit the winner(s) on our Team page

Submissions can be posted on GTAForums here or you can send them to us privately via any method on our Contact page until 29th April 2020.

Got a question? Post on GTAF, email us or bleet us, we’re always open.

Thank you to all the folks that participate!

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Together we celebrated the first true 3D GTA, Grand Theft Auto III, and over the years that followed we created several websites to support every game release, alongside developing GTAForums as our community base. 19 years later we’re still here, waiting for Grand Theft Auto VI, waiting to get our minds blown, just as we were back then.

To pat our own backs for a second, GTAForums has done well running for as long as it has. Forums as a platform to communicate are not as popular as they once were, but with a dedicated team of staff and ever-thirsty fans playing their part, we still hold our own in the GTA community.

Unfortunately, our network sites haven’t received the same attention these past few years. We’re all a bit older, all have a few more things in real life to get on with, you know how it is, but now is the time to look forward. This anniversary year seemed like the perfect time to get back to basics, get back to our roots, and bring one of the oldest projects in the GTA community back to life.

The GTANet Portal at GrandTheftAuto.net promises to keep all existing information we’ve gathered over these 19 years as accessible as it always has been, and over time we’ll be archiving all of our articles from the past right here on this domain, but for now we’ve dusted off the covers and will be bringing in new articles, new community spotlights and any news we can get our hands on relating to GTA, Red Dead and other Rockstar Games titles.

Welcome home.

— The GTANet Team

24th April 2020 – see update here regarding our domain.

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He has helped uNi and Kirsty with the workload on our Social Media side of things on Twitter and during RDR2 pre and post launch.

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A lot of things are different, a lot are the same, overall we tried to make it as close as possible to the GTAF experience you’ve grown used to. That said, with time new ways of doing things come along and we need to get on board with it, as much as we don’t want to. 

It still looks pretty much like the old GTAF, but it’s brand new, it will take time for the community, and for us, to get used to. GTAForums 2018 is the new default skin, and as it is considered the final thing, we will wait for your feedback in the new few days to make changes where need to.

You can also expect new skins. (RDR2!)

Please use the following threads for support and feedback, check the other links below for information, and feel free to use this thread for general discussion.

– New Forums Support Thread

– GTAForums 2018 Theme Feeback

– Improvements regarding your GTANet account

– Improvements regarding GTAForums

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