With the New Year nearly upon us, "Pretty Little Liars" is gearing up for its Season 6B premiere, and the radical transformation is igniting one of the longstanding comparisons between the ABC Family series and "Gossip Girl."

This week, the first official promo poster for Season 6B arrived and began circulating online. While Hanna, Spencer, Emily, Aria and Allison are clearly headed for a burial, the edgy fashion has caused some comparisons to "Gossip Girl."

"The gritty reboot of 'Gossip Girl' looks so good," teased Eric Zhang on Facebook.

While fans still have a ways to wait for the "Pretty Little Liars" Season 6B premiere, there is a growing theory that we have already met the new Big Bad.

First, there has always been a contention that Maya is not dead. This evidence came during the Season 6A finale.

"After Emily killed Nate the girls got a call from someone saying, 'Emily I owe you one,'" wrote reddit user CindyLouSequin.

"Even at the time I wasn't sure whether that was A or not. Now after watching the finale, I am 100% sure it was Maya, not A. Because why the hell would CeCe care about Nate? Why would she need him dead? Besides, if she wanted that she would have just done it herself. Not to mention the fact that A never makes phone calls but only communicates through written messages."

After the exciting "Pretty Little Liars" Season 5 finale, executive producer Oliver Goldstick conducted an interview where he discussed the deceased character Maya St. Germain, after the name was mentioned during the episode.

"I think that's a word that would make 'A' perk up, just as it made you perk up," said Goldstick to TVLine. "Given Maya's history with the series-she was sort of clued in by the end, and possibly had some answers-it was not 'A' that killed her, but that doesn't mean 'A' didn't try."