Has this trend of putting instagram name stickers on cars made it to your town yet?

"Textured Soy Protein" (texturedsoyprotein) 07/23/2019 at 13:40 • Filed to: None

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I’ve been noticing a steady stream of cars around me that have stickers on them with the owner’s instagram handle. It’s almost always a lightly modded mainstream performance-ish car, just like this 86 I noticed today. I’m in the DC burbs. Who else has spotted this trend, on what kind of cars, and where?

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > Textured Soy Protein 07/23/2019 at 13:42

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OH YEAH

JMordu becoming “savethemilanos” > Textured Soy Protein 07/23/2019 at 13:45

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I’ve seen this for at least 5 years it seems. But 5 years ago I was still in LA and that seems like the perfect place for this crap. Definitely common everywhere at this point though! Pretty sure I saw it in the Philippines earlier this year too  but haven’t dug through my street photos from that trip to confirm

CaptDale - is secretly British > Textured Soy Protein 07/23/2019 at 13:45

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Yeah. Mostly the Subie bros and Miata kids.

functionoverfashion > Textured Soy Protein 07/23/2019 at 13:46

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I saw it on one, looked it up, and there were only 2 posts. I was confused, figured I’m too old to understand, and walked away, muttering under my breath about kids these days

Textured Soy Protein > functionoverfashion 07/23/2019 at 13:47

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Those ones with no posts want you to hit them up in the DMs!

MrDakka > Textured Soy Protein 07/23/2019 at 13:48

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Gotta show off how much better/cooler/richer you are than the rest of the plebs

412GTI > Textured Soy Protein 07/23/2019 at 13:49

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I always joke with people that do this. Like what you want a bunch of men to follow you on Instagram? 

InFierority Complex > Textured Soy Protein 07/23/2019 at 13:49

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You should check my instagram account to find out my thoughts on this.

AestheticsInMotion > Textured Soy Protein 07/23/2019 at 13:49

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Yeah, few years now. It’s on everything from lightly modded cars, to full builds.

The Brz and Gti seem to be the most frequent offenders 

Textured Soy Protein > MrDakka 07/23/2019 at 13:50

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Right, because a Toyota 86 on stock rims with tint and an exhaust really accomplishes that objective.

For Sweden > Textured Soy Protein 07/23/2019 at 13:50

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Nibby > Textured Soy Protein 07/23/2019 at 13:51

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i ’ m g e t t i n g a k i n j a s t i c k e r

HondoyotaE38: A Japanese and German Collab...wait a minute > Textured Soy Protein 07/23/2019 at 13:51

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Lol yes...I li ve in Central Florida

slipperysallylikespenguins > Textured Soy Protein 07/23/2019 at 13:51

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There are quite a few in WA. Mostly mainstream cars. I’ve saved a few on some really interesting builds/ adventure rigs just to see if they had any build details.

vicali > Nibby 07/23/2019 at 13:52

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“I’m a big deal on Oppo”

Ash78, voting early and often > Textured Soy Protein 07/23/2019 at 13:53

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Suburban Birmingham, and 99.9% of the time on a BR-Z, FR-S, FR-Z, and/or BR-S

vicali > Textured Soy Protein 07/23/2019 at 13:53

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M ore often expo rigs, I have followed a few..

functionoverfashion > Textured Soy Protein 07/23/2019 at 13:54

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See? I feel old. 

facw > Textured Soy Protein 07/23/2019 at 13:54

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I’ve not seen that.

gettingoldercarguy > Textured Soy Protein 07/23/2019 at 13:55

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Dungeon Masters?

Tripper > Textured Soy Protein 07/23/2019 at 13:55

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Yes, I just thought it was a way for the driver to advertise that they are under the age of 21.

way2blu does a rev update > Textured Soy Protein 07/23/2019 at 13:56

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Hahahahahaha, haha, ha, haaaaa...

Been on there for 2 years so far 

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > Textured Soy Protein 07/23/2019 at 13:58

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What’s an instacram?

and 100 more > Textured Soy Protein 07/23/2019 at 14:00

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Yep. There’s a black Mustang with pink trim, and an Audi that both have their IG name plastered on a window.

#influencer

Textured Soy Protein > 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) 07/23/2019 at 14:00

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ZHP Sparky, the 5th > Textured Soy Protein 07/23/2019 at 14:04

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Yeah it’s a thing out here (PNW). Mostly I’ve noticed it on modded current/last gen Mustangs, and modded Wranglers.

‘Murica! 

MrDakka > Textured Soy Protein 07/23/2019 at 14:05

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That’s 2 more “ aftermarket mods” than most people which instantly makes them car enthusiasts.

TheRealBicycleBuck > Textured Soy Protein 07/23/2019 at 14:06

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Instagram, twitter, hashtags, you name it. I’ve seen them on rock crawlers (#mallcrawler), modified cars, and trucks (both slammed and lifted). Whether it’s tastefully done or a total box of junk, proud people are more than willing to share.

LJ909 > Textured Soy Protein 07/23/2019 at 14:09

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Yea. Its been here in SoCal for awhile now. What with all the night races and wanna be drifters tearing up industrial parks and valley canyons at night. Whenever you see (or hear) a Z, GT86, Genesis Coupe etc, pretty much any bro ricer there’s bound to be an ig name on the back.

TysMagic > Textured Soy Protein 07/23/2019 at 14:09

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I have dropped the gram handle from my window, but I will forever have an oppo sticker somewhere on the car 

Textured Soy Protein > MrDakka 07/23/2019 at 14:09

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Car enthusiast /= “ better/cooler/richer than the rest of the plebs”

MrDakka > Textured Soy Protein 07/23/2019 at 14:11

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It does when you’re a “ social media influencer”

His Stigness > Textured Soy Protein 07/23/2019 at 14:12

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Ha just yesterday I saw a CHROME WRAPPED 2 Series with the asshat’s IG handle.

Can you be more vain? I think not! 

Textured Soy Protein > LJ909 07/23/2019 at 14:15

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There hasn’t been a proper “scene” like that in DC since the late 90s/early 00s. There were a ton of illegal street races that happened on a highway near an under construction, new suburban metro station that was going to be the new end of that line.

There was also a huge basically-nightly meetup in the parking lot of a Barnes & Noble that’s right by my house (and still open, shocker!) that I used to hit up all the time. All kinds of cool cars and bikes there and I was one of the regulars with my ’92 Integra GSR.

Now there’s just Katie’s C&C and the smaller other C&C’s around the various corners of the burbs but none of that scene kid stuff. Or if that does exist I’ve aged out of the demo.

His Stigness > Textured Soy Protein 07/23/2019 at 14:17

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ZERO functional mods.

But I do love the STI button on a Toyota. 

BeaterGT > Textured Soy Protein 07/23/2019 at 14:19

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Pretty typical among Instabros 

BeaterGT > Textured Soy Protein 07/23/2019 at 14:19

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Pretty typical among Instabros 

functionoverfashion > Textured Soy Protein 07/23/2019 at 14:19

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Don’t know where I saw this, but - “Remember in the old days when we’d take pictures of our food with a film camera, mail it in to be developed, wait for them to come back in the mail, then walk to all the houses in the neighborhood to show everyone our dinner ?”

Grindintosecond > Textured Soy Protein 07/23/2019 at 14:22

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Great! Now we can find them and finally  tell that moron, who cut you off just t o hit t he exit ramp on the brakes, they drive like shit. We never had that option!

Under_Score > His Stigness 07/23/2019 at 14:27

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Is that push-to-start on an FR-S? The photo is blurry, but that looks like keyless access bars on the driver’s door handle. Wow, another vehicle (FR-S) has been added to my bare-minimum car hunt!

Textured Soy Protein > Grindintosecond 07/23/2019 at 14:38

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Decay buys too many beaters > Textured Soy Protein 07/23/2019 at 15:14

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I’ve got one on the $200 miata

His Stigness > Under_Score 07/23/2019 at 15:19

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It is push start, but I don’t remember if it had keyless entry. 

marshknute > Textured Soy Protein 07/23/2019 at 15:23

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My carspotting buddies and I have them on our cars, but we at least have reasonably large IG accounts to back up the hubris (20K-50K followers) .

I n most cases, we only  post photos of exotic hypercars instead of our mundane regular sports cars .  It’s just a free billboard to maybe attract a few extra followers at Cars&Coffee.

Grindintosecond > Textured Soy Protein 07/23/2019 at 15:33

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Well, not on regular drivers, you pedant oppo  you.

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > Textured Soy Protein 07/23/2019 at 15:47

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I’ve seen them on the occasional stanced car in Northern NM, and on the occasional bro truck in Southern NM.

LJ909 > Textured Soy Protein 07/23/2019 at 15:54

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That’ s crazy I didn’ t even think DC would have something like that.

But as everyone knows cars are big here so a lot of this stuff happens literally every night. Especially if you live in the burb’s like I do, you can just sit and listen in the distance as ricers duke it out on freeways and muscle cars tear u the empty streets.

Business parks will be street races or meetups as well and you will see the evidence in the mornings of burnout marks and donut marks in the streets . Some cities have begun fighting back, like my hometown. In w arehouse areas or business park areas that have long empty streets , cities have begun installing big ass speed bumps to curtail racing . Its helped by they just go somewhere else.

Textured Soy Protein > Grindintosecond 07/23/2019 at 16:02

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I’m not being pedantic, I meant that the IG handle stickers are effectively a direct line to the driver that other drivers can use like a How’s My Driving sticker. 

Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness > Textured Soy Protein 07/23/2019 at 16:10

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Yep, guy I work with has his on his WRX wagon ( hatchback, because it gets him riled when I tell him it’s not a “real” wagon ).

Textured Soy Protein > LJ909 07/23/2019 at 16:17

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One thing the DC area in general lacks is sprawling industrial areas.

But back in the 90s/00s before the economic development really blew up here and property values got out of control, there were some mostly-abandoned parts of DC that weren’t too violent, and the aforementioned “Metro” as everyone called it.

T he suburbs were very much boring suburbs and not the super dense rich areas they are now. So the kids from the burbs whose parents had a little money and could hop up their cars had nothing better to do and would go street racing. Or the 20/30somethings who could still find cheap places to live would dump a bunch of money in their cars. Modded cars were everywhere.

After F&F came out it flooded the scene with idiots that attracted too much police attention. That killed a lot of it, because there were really not that many spots so they were easy to overrun once word got out. By 2002 it was starting to die out. And then once all the traffic cameras started going up and everything got more and more developed that really killed it.

All those old Mischief videos —that was the DC car scene at the time. And a couple dudes I knew were like, research subjects for the original Midnight Club game. This dude Dustin used to roll up to the B&N where I hung out and sell DVDs out the trunk of his yellow Mazda MX-6 with an Erebuni body kit that was on the cover of the game.

LJ909 > Textured Soy Protein 07/23/2019 at 17:15

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Thanks for the info I had no idea DC had a scene like that. But after what you described it would make sense.

After F&F came out it flooded the scene with idiots that attracted too much police attention. That killed a lot of it, because there were really not that many spots so they were easy to overrun once word got out.

This happened here too and for the most part changed the scene in general. Douchebags started to want to pull stunts and be dumbasses, attracting unwanted attention by local PD and sometimes the Feds if they had JDM vehicles. Stakes started getting hire while driving became more bold and dangerous and there you have it, all the fun was gone for awhile.

Grindintosecond > Textured Soy Protein 07/23/2019 at 17:17

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I should have placed Lols on  that. Lol.

Khalbali > Textured Soy Protein 07/23/2019 at 19:13

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I've seen them but never knew what they were.... I’m old....

DipodomysDeserti > MrDakka 07/23/2019 at 20:08

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I’ve been using it to show off how much poorer and shittier I am.

pip bip - choose Corrour > Textured Soy Protein 07/24/2019 at 05:34

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can’t say i’ve noticed

Dusty Ventures > Under_Score 08/07/2019 at 22:11

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The limited trim BRZ came with keyless entry and push button start since the car first came out. Various trims of the FRS have also been graced with this feature, though it’s been less consistent since the FRS was meant to be the more “basic” variant.

Under_Score > Dusty Ventures 08/08/2019 at 06:54

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That’s good to know. Subaru was a super late adopter to push button start. You could only get it on the Touring trim Forester up until 2018!

Dusty Ventures > Under_Score 08/08/2019 at 11:29

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Now that you mention it I think the 2013  brz limited was the first Subaru to get push button

Under_Score > Dusty Ventures 08/08/2019 at 19:04

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Notice that all of the Subaru’s have the same start button as Toyota’s.