Tez2
GTA dataminer behind the parody-domain, Sahara Surveillance and age-verification finds, plus reports of separate online and episodic story DLC.
- Role
- Dataminer and insider
- Handle
- @TezFunz2 on X
- Known finds
- Parody domains, Sahara Surveillance rename, age-verification strings
- Reported
- Online sold separately; episodic story DLC
- Status of reports
- Unconfirmed by Rockstar
Tez2, who posts on X as @TezFunz2, is the most closely watched dataminer in the GTA community, with a long record of accurate finds pulled directly from Rockstar's own files rather than from anonymous tips.
Notable finds
- Parody domains: a batch of GTA 6-style web domains, including rydeme.app, what-up.app and buckme.app, registered on May 27 under Take-Two nameservers and surfaced in September 2025 (see parody domains).
- Sahara Surveillance: GTA Online's "KnoWay Out" missions shipped under the internal name "Sahara Surveillance", after a brand from GTA 6's world. The rename is fact in the files; Tez2's theory of a scrapped GTA 6 crossover is labelled as theory (see Sahara Surveillance).
- NoPixel V: a Rockstar Games Launcher backend listing for NoPixel V, dated June 22, 2026, surfaced through Tez2 with the original find credited to @logan_mcgeeee.
- Age verification: strings for a GTA Online age-verification flow, datamined in 2025, citing the United Kingdom, France, Spain, Italy, Denmark and Greece.
Reports
Tez2 has suggested GTA 6 could be the first game in the series to sell its online mode separately from the story (see multiplayer status) and reports that Rockstar plans episodic single-player story expansions, possibly adding new cities or islands, framed partly as a way to spread output and reduce crunch. Both are insider reports Rockstar has not confirmed. Notably, Tez2 tied the rumored Project Rome creator engine to GTA 5, not GTA 6, a restraint that third-party coverage did not always preserve.