What stopped the ricer culture like pic related from being

>>16647284
Your area got poor.

>>16647284
Fast and the furious sets trends.
When they stopped. So did everyone else

>>16647284
Except thats a nice car that looks like it had some time and money put into it
Ricers are literal fucking shitboxes with gutted interior and loud fartcan exhaust

People realized that they would be better off spending that $3000 on performance parts instead of an admittedly well applied although visually carcinogenic paint job, decals, and shitty rims/wheels

>>16647305
>ricer
>performance
If you call ebay body mods performance, then sure

>>16647284
Stance.

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>>16647284

I still think they're unironically cool desu

Stancing, rocket bunny kits, etc. don't do it for me.

it got so popular that it turned lame

trends die

TO THE WINDOOOOOOOOOOOW

>>16647313
Well yeah idiots will be idiots. But eventually they (hopefully) also learned that you get what you pay for with modifications.

>>16647297
>

RIDERS OF THE STORM or I AM ROCK

Probably the internet desu.
Before people just copied what they saw in magazines or locals shows.

When was the peak and when did the decline start? I've never understood this nonsense.

>>16647762
Peak - 2003
Decline - 2006

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>>16647284

stance is the new rice

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>>16647284
federal reserve interest rates being artificially low and allowing a easy credit bubble to cause rapid artificial economic expansion which eventually popped and caused a major contraction in American incomes, currency, employment, and quality of life making leisure activities unattainable

>>16647467
I AM ROCK

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