Kalshi wants to pay someone six figures to livestream Grand Theft Auto VI. No, this is not a joke. The prediction market platform said on Thursday it wants to hire a GTA VI Researcher and assured potential candidates that this was, in fact, a real job.
"We're looking for someone whose parents said video games would never pay the bills. They were wrong, and you can tell them we said so," the company said. Kalshi said the remote position entails livestreaming your gaming experience beginning at midnight on November 19, when the highly anticipated game is scheduled for release.
"You'll stream the entire journey, investigate Leonida's economy, and study what happens to the real economy when everyone suddenly has a 'family emergency' on launch day," Kalshi said. "We want the person who finds the optimal money-making strategy, builds a spreadsheet to prove it, and gets accused of ruining the game for everyone else." Kalshi is seeking an "established gamer and streamer" with their own channel, and the candidate must use their own setup.
The fixed project fee ranges from $100,000 to $120,000, plus a $15,000 project completion fee. Gamers worldwide are waiting with bated breath as the Grand Theft Auto VI launch inches closer. Hype around the latest installment began picking up in 2022, when a hacker leaked footage of the game while it was in development.
Rockstar Games, a subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive, officially announced the video game in 2023, a decade after Grand Theft Auto V came out. The game, along with other recent popular releases, has led to an influx of PTO requests.