Adin Ross Allegedly Spent $350,000 on a Leaked GTA 6 Copy and Plans to Stream It, Which Is Either the Bravest or the Dumbest Thing He Has Ever Done

Darlings, while the rest of the streaming world is quietly backing away from the GTA 6 leak like it is a lit gas stove, Adin Ross has allegedly walked straight toward it and handed someone three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. According to reports circulating across Google News and a widely-upvoted thread on r/LivestreamFail, Ross confirmed he purchased a leaked copy of GTA 6 for that exact sum and is planning to review it on a livestream.

The immediate context matters here. A piece published by GTA BOOM on August 19 laid out how top streamers have been actively running from any association with the leaked build, apparently spooked by the legal exposure Rockstar's parent company Take-Two has historically brought down on anyone who touches their unreleased material. Sensible, one might say. Ross looked at that consensus and allegedly decided it was not for him.

Reaction on r/LivestreamFail, the unofficial scoreboard for this kind of decision, was swift and not exactly flattering. The general read from commenters, per the thread, was disbelief that anyone would pay six figures for something that could invite an immediate DMCA takedown or worse before the stream even hits five minutes. Several responses fixated less on the legal risk and more on the sheer dollar amount, treating $350,000 as the real headline. Which, fair.

Others in the thread framed it as on-brand to the point of being predictable, pointing out that Ross has spent years treating legal and platform risk as promotional infrastructure rather than deterrents. And if this feels familiar, it is because back in June Ross was already publicly complaining that his $25 million mansion did not appear on the speculated GTA 6 map. The man has had a parasocial relationship with this game for months. Spending a third of a million dollars on a leaked build is, arguably, just the next chapter of that journey.

The streamer-avoidance angle is genuinely interesting though. When a piece of content is so legally radioactive that people whose entire brand is built on chaos are declining to touch it, and one guy pays the price of a luxury vehicle to go the other direction, that is a statement. Whether it is a statement about courage or about judgment is, my loves, entirely up to you.

We wish Adin Ross's lawyers strength in this trying time of his own making. Take-Two's legal team has entered the chat in our imagination and they look well-rested.