Adam Long was scrolling through the Grand Theft Auto V subreddit when he saw game footage of some guys jumping out of a van and beating the living crap out of a random guy. To anyone else, it might have looked like a little videogame griefing; for 18-year-old Long, it was the inspiration that would spark social media phenomenon.
“All of a sudden they punch him and beat him to death,” Long says. “I thought it was the funniest thing ever. I sent it to a group of friends on Snapchat and said we had to do something like it.”
Back in GTA V, an open-world role-playing game with an online component, Long and his two friends settled on a “roving gang of aliens” vibe with matching green martian suits for their avatars. They hopped in a van and drove around, looking for players who were alone, preoccupied, and unassuming. Then they jumped out, grabbed baseball bats, and knocked them dead. “Hit and run,” says Long. “We pissed ourselves laughing.”
Long’s video of one such encounter, titled “You came to the wrong planet foo,” went viral on Reddit. Mimicking Long’s gang, a slew of players purchased green alien suits and baseball bats to menace GTA V innocents. Sometimes they’d yell out “vibe check!” before striking. Some used a golf club instead of a baseball bat. In protest, players donned purple alien suits and rose up against the bully green gang members. Over the last month, Reddit, Instagram, and especially TikTok have been overrun by clips of green and purple aliens menacing each other and the virtual society. That’s how the alien war ..
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