Hammond is driving a GT3 RS with an anime girl wrap on it. Either this is peak cringe or our peak as a society.

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HMP729G@reddit

I’m 35 and have no idea what any of this means. Probably just gonna keep it that way.

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I was at an event at Caffeine and Machine recently that Hammond and the Smallest Cog team were at and he came over and was genuinely interested in my Itasha/anime wrapped M140i. Said he loved the design and wished more cars had bright designs and people pushed the boat out more with their cars and just did more of what they thought was cool.

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VisceralWretch@reddit

“peak cringe or peak of our society” what on earth are you saying?

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winglessrs@reddit

1) he doesn't own this car, 2) why the f are people getting offended by this? And if they are, then they deserve to be offended by this.

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superpitu@reddit

I don’t see where the problem is, clearly lacking on anime culture. Nothing indecent there.

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heftigfin@reddit

Nothing this man does is cringe honestly. That is reserved for mister James "Hello." May.

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Pleasant_Pumpkin5691@reddit

Hammond x Itasha, it's more likely than you'd think!

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nukrag@reddit

Unless he is terminally online, I don't think he knows all the implications of having an Anime woman decorated car. Especially at his age, most likely not having grown up with it. And if he does know, then he has earned the right to be cringy simply by virtue of having had to endure Clarkson for so long. :D

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Sensitive_Guest_5995@reddit

He’s been in the car scene longer than some of us have been alive. I’m sure he’s very aware of car meet ups. Scene girls. Fast and furious and the cringe shit people do to cars lol.

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SALTYP33T@reddit

I’m asking as a bugs bunny generation what is the thing with anime? Are you saying this might be the car they pick you up in on Epstein Isalnd?

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eirexe@reddit

To be fair Epstein wasn't particularly interested in anime girls

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megacookie@reddit

Dude went for the IRL lolis

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nukrag@reddit

Sir, I will have you know I grew up with Bugs as well. I am 44, I am just terminally online since 1996. :D

Some anime fans overdo their love for female anime characters. Like eating dinner with a picture of her on the laptop, having her as a body pillow, shit like that. They are known as "waifus", basically their favorite girl. Like saying "wife" with the typical "u" sound at the end of Japanized English words (orangu for instance). Those guys are looked down on, and have that "unkempt loser" stereotype put on them.

So, Hamster putting an anime chick on the car (or just driving one) makes him look like that. At least that is what the joke is.

But in all likelihood it's just because anime is more popular now. There are tons of in-ear monitors that have anime girls on the packaging for instance. Something which has nothing to do with anime whatsoever, so it's probably something like that.

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no_cigar_tx@reddit

Bullies actually solved this problem back in the day.

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SALTYP33T@reddit

Excellent explanation. My generation just enjoyed racist cartoons but it seems the pendulum has swung to creepy teenage boy softcore porn….

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KamakaziDemiGod@reddit

It's some teenagers in general, not just the boys, and it's very popular amongst some girls

It used to be that cartoons and comics were just for kids, but now theres content intended for all ages

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Hanifloka@reddit

Are you saying this might be the car they pick you up in on Epstein Isalnd?

That's taking it a bit far. But yeah cars with anime girl liveries are generally stereotyped to anime fans who end up becoming obsessed with the characters, particularly the women. Japanese studios tend to make the girls look beautiful to the point that the people watching them start fantasizing these girls as their wives, hence the term "waifu". These are the sort of people that could be described as "gooners" or "basement dwellers".

If you wanna know how obsessed the anime community could be with their favorite girls, just know that some people made their own sketches of these characters (or sketches of their own characters) except with oversized front and back bumpers. Either that or they fall further down the slippery slope and start watching Epstein's favorite anime genre which I will not mention here so as to spare you from even looking it up.

Luckily, not all animes have gooner and/or basement dweller fanbases. Some are relatively level-headed and do occasionally go out to touch some grass.

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SALTYP33T@reddit

Ahhh Japan the land of amazing cars and used panty vending machines! Why am I not surprised this exists. Then again we’ve got incels in their parents basements with latex sex dolls….

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Quatermain@reddit

It was at a track event in Shanghai. Someone probably just let him take a spin in their car and he thought it would generate some talk to post a clip of it.

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nukrag@reddit

Aw, someone else offered the explanation that it might be on his car show soon. Kinda sad, but, that is till sick. Thanks, man.

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Admirable-Marsupial3@reddit

If its one hes done, there a good possibility its for his auto company featured in his series. Which would probably be a client car and design.

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Quatermain@reddit

Could be, it was at a track day event in Shanghai, so odds are someone let one of the biggest personalities in the car world take their car for a lap.

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nukrag@reddit

Oh yeah, I hadn't even considered that. That makes the most sense. I didn't think it was actually his, just that he tested it for some reason. But it being a customer's car is the most likely reason.

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MrD3a7h@reddit

I vehemently believe Hammond would secretly be a gigantic weeb.

This is a positive statement.

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nukrag@reddit

HamtaroFan69 posting in tierlists in r/anime.

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Emotional_Being8594@reddit

I feel like he gets away with it tbh.

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QuietBookkeeper4712@reddit

UwU

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weetabix_su@reddit

sir this is a pro-clarkson sub. any hint of street modding and styling is immediately a cringe yobbo mobile.

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SD_One@reddit

It's just Hammond in a car. He's driven hundreds of them.

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GrnMtnTrees@reddit

Some of them are even still in one piece.

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Either_Caregiver2268@reddit

Say that again?

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ReefNixon@reddit

I think the nuance of this specific moment in car culture is just being lost on people who weren't around for it. At the time a full livery featuring an anime girl wasn't actually about anime at all, it was about JDM and tuner culture. That's why it's just as common to see kanji decals, rising suns, cherry blossoms, etc. on modified cars of that era.

The fact it's on a Porsche doesn't matter. At the time it was common on jettas, puntos, various american SUVs, bascially whatever a 20 year old could get their hands on, which included plenty of boxters and caymans for the rich boys.

This is just the car culture equivalent of wearing retro sneaker remakes.

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