Toyota Pod

## *Overview*

Pod's profile picture, unchanged since February 2020

2001\_toyota\_pod was a riseupcars page with over 1100 followers as of when this was written. Currently at his all time highest follower count with 1,122 people, he *still* has no idea how he reached the figure 3 weeks after deciding he'd no longer post any new content. His style of content changed numerous times, with some posts being related to unfunny car stereotypes, and others being Gran Turismo memes. He also wrote this entire article in the third person.

## *The early days*

Pod first posted on January 10th 2020, but didn't find out about riseupcars until later on.

He joined the community on January 28th, 2020 and started posting around 3 times daily, catapulting the page from 8 to 100 followers in only a few days. He then began to slow down during his long transition from quantity to quality, eventually running out of ideas in March.

## *Attempting to shift to comics*

After running out of ideas for memes, Pod announced he'd be officially moving on and making "comics," the style of content riseupcars is most well known for. Despite putting in a lot of effort, they weren't particularly great, and he abandoned the plan after realizing comics would require even more ideas than memes and shitposts.

## 2009santafe

Original profile picture for 2009santafe, Pod's second account

## Posts

### IGTV Posts

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Around June, Pod started to find an audience the way many other people had already. He started to post a mix of Gran Turismo-related memes, memes about drama in the riseupcars community and more.

## 2009santafe

### Overview

In July of 2020, Pod created a second account called 2009santafe, which mocks the many hated trends used by other riseupcars members.

The account was originally an average ironic riseupcars page with nothing to separate it from all the other ironic pages, but that all changed on July 24th with a post created to poke fun at a highly controversial car abortion comic originally uploaded in 2019. That post helped find the page a loyal audience, and it continued to maintain a steady growth until the very end.

## Pod once said that he'd continue using this page even after he leaves behind his main account, although it has now been completely abandoned as of November 24th, 2020.

### Controversies

Unlike Pod's main account, 2009santafe has been the subject of criticism numerous times. Notable occasions include:

* A post making fun of riseupcars members reacting to videos, featuring a clip of a kitten being set on fire. It was initially taken down, but after a review from Instagram support, it is now back up.
* Numerous jokes about abortions and terrorism
* A second post about reacting to videos, this time featuring 2009santafe laughing at George Floyd's tragic death in Minneapolis

## *Exit From the Community,return and Exit from the community (Again maybe?)*

After a hard-hitting lack of ideas struck Pod in November, he decided to put his accounts to rest with one final post. As someone who hated "emotional" leaving posts, he figured the best choice was to do it by simply adding his PNG over a comic from May 2020, in which another riseupcars member known as @2017dodgeviper talks about the drama he started, with some alterations done to the captions. If this sounds familiar, that's because it's the same idea as the last post from the great @polski\_maluch, just done with a different post. He is alive again for no reason at all On May 6th,2021 and leaves On September 22nd, 2021 like a Boss.

## *Other things worth noting*

* Pod introduced the "Such A True!😂😂" meme to riseupcars after finding the line in a JDM fan page's caption in April
* nothing else, really
> "*"I never should've joined riseupcars. Now everyone likes me."*"
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― 2001\_toyota\_pod