GTA Online launched 12 years ago today and Rockstar Games have released a new GTA Online Birthday Gift to players in the game. You can celebrate the game’s anniversary with these gifts.
It has now been over a decade since the highly anticipated but ultimately controversial launch of GTA Online. Back in 2013, GTA V had just become the fastest selling piece of entertainment in history weeks prior and all eyes was on GTA Online. For those that were there on Day One and experienced the major server issues, this gift is for you and you only at this moment in time.
Logging into GTA Online from October 1st 2025 with a character that was made 12 years ago will grant you the gift. It is a new black and green party hat with the number 12 on. To equip the hat, you need to visit the Party Hats section under Hats in your wardrobe or Interaction Menu. You’ll also get firework ammo to use.
Previously, only years 1-11 hats were accessible. These came to GTA Online as part of the “The Chop Shop” update in late 2024. If you did not create your character 12 years ago today, that’s fine. You will still be able to get this on the 12th anniversary of the day you created your GTA Online character. You will receive a new hat depending how long it has been since you made your character every anniversary. Obviously, the most hats a player can receive right now is up to the 12th hat.
How To View Your Character’s Birthday
To find out your GTA Online character’s birthday, start by pressing the pause button. Then go over to the tab that says Stats. When on this sub-menu, scroll down to General on the right side. You’ll then see your character creation date on the right side.
More GTA Online Anniversaries Before GTA 6?
Going forward, we will pass year 13 next year. GTA 6 has a release date for 26th May 2026. This means you won’t be able to unlock the 13th hat until after GTA VI comes out. That is assuming the game does not get delayed past October 1st 2026.
We did get confirmation of 13 through 15 year party hats thanks to a glitch. Twitter user Finn Pup said “For some reason my OG character has 15 of them. I guess by mistake. So looks like Rockstar is planning on supporting GTA Online for at least 5 more years.” Below you can see Hat 15 being worn with the other three in the list.
There are also party outfits as birthday gifts too. The Bronze variant will be gifted to you if your character is 5 years old. Whereas the Silver Party Suit is for characters that pass 10 years. It is unknown if a Gold Party suit will be given for 15 years but we expect that will be the case.
You can see of the other 10 obtainable Party Hats and 2 Party Outfits currently earnable in GTA Online below.
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