I explained the βx before gta6β meme to my immigrant father and he, in turn, explained to me how back in his day in Romania, they had the same type of joke, except instead of it being gta6, it was about the imminent death of a singer named GicΔ Petrescu, who everyone was continuously shocked by because he refused to die. Every time a momentous event happened people would say, in essence: βThis happened and GicΔ Petrescu hasnβt even died yet?!?β
So. He understood the gta6 meme immediately because they apparently had the same thing in Romania when he was young, except way, way more morbid